Free Printable Making Friends Worksheets for Special Education

Help children develop meaningful friendships, explore shared interests, and understand what healthy friendships look like with our free printable Making Friends worksheets, designed for children with autism, special education needs, and early learners. These social skills worksheets introduce simple ways to connect with others, including playing together, sharing interests, spending time side by side, and finding activities they both enjoy. Through picture recognition, word tracing, cut-and-paste activities, matching exercises, sequencing tasks, and real-life scenarios, children can practice recognizing friendship behaviors, identifying common interests, and understanding that friends can enjoy quiet time or independent activities too. These printable friendship worksheets are ideal for parents, special education teachers, speech therapists, occupational therapists, and homeschool learning.

Our Making Friends worksheets for kids include three learning levels—Emerging, Developing, and Applying—to support different learning abilities. Activities include identifying friendship behaviors, matching pictures with words, completing sentences, sequencing shared activities, creating a personal friend map, and recognizing the difference between healthy and unhealthy friendship behaviors. Children also explore real-life situations, such as meeting someone who shares their interests, respecting a friend’s need for alone time, and responding when someone uses friendship as a way to pressure them. Download these free special education worksheets, autism worksheets, and social-emotional learning activities to support friendship skills, communication, social understanding, self-advocacy, and positive peer relationships. The activities also reinforce that friendships can look different for everyone, sharing interests and playing side by side are meaningful ways to connect, and real friends respect personal boundaries and accept “no.”

Free Printable Making Friends Worksheets PDF for Autism and Special Education