November 4, 2021August 27, 2026 by joels

Friendship Growing Cards ~ social skills game to teach friendship skills for children with ASD

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This resource in German: Karten für wachsende Freundschaften

This social skills card activity is designed to help children with autism to explore friendship. It can be used in a variety of ways. You can print out the friendship social skills cards and use them with dice in a social skills game or you can use them in an unstructured Q & A format. A separate download allows you to skip printing the cards and instead display them on a computer, which makes this social skills activity adaptable for teletherapy or classroom use.

The pictures below demonstrate what elements of friendship are represented in the three card categories: Planting friendships, Growing friendships, and Working out problems in friendships.

Picture shows cards in the category of "Planting Friendships"

This picture shows cards in the category of Growing Friendships.

This picture shows cards in the category of Helping Friendships.

To add a game-like element, you can roll a die to guide card selection from among the three categories, as explained below.

This picture shows the directions page for using dice while using the cards.

"The cards are not just for children with autism. They can also be used for children with social anxiety and isolation."

In my own use of these cards in social skills groups, I have used the projected version of the Friendship Growing Cards as often as I have employed the printed-out cards. Projected, each individual card offers the advantage of allowing all participants to clearly view the card in question.