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Use these cute and colorful Friendship Day Printables to show your friends how much you appreciate having them in your life!

“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” 

Do you watch the news? Even if you don’t, it’s hard to avoid it completely – those stories find a way to reach us! With so much bad news coming in from everywhere, it sometimes feels like the world is a dreary place. However, that’s when you remember that there’s one thing that can bind two people from completely differing backgrounds, and that’s friendship!

This thought isn’t new – in fact, friendship is considered so vital to world peace that even the United Nations thought it fit to have a special day for it – and that’s how the International Day of Friendship came to be on 30th July!

The UN believes that it is through friendship between people and nations that we can actually achieve a peaceful environment where every person can live happily. The focus is mainly on young people, who will be the harbingers of a new tomorrow.  And here are a few ways to do it.

5 Ways to Celebrate the International Day of Friendship:

1. Connect with an old friend who lives in another country or a faraway city
2. Throw a party for the friends who live near you
3. Surprise a friend with a visit at their home, along with their favorite foods
4. Make friendship bracelets and exchange them with your friends
5. Make fun crafts and friendship cards and send them to your friends

So let’s help you with that last bit today! If you’d like something simple that doesn’t require too many craft supplies, you’ll enjoy these cute and colorful friendship day printables. There are printables suitable for kids of all ages, from preschoolers to teens, which is perfect since friendship has no age limit!

10 Colorful Friendship Day Printables for Kids

1. Free Printable Friendship Bracelet Cards

Wondering whether you should go for a DIY friendship bracelet or a DIY friendship card? Well, why not go for both – with this cute printable that your friend is going to absolutely love!

2. “You are the Write Friend” Pencil Tags

If you’d like a simple, cost-effective classroom gift for Friendship Day, this printable pencil flag will be perfect. Just get some decorative pencils in colors your friend will love and then attach the printable flags to them. 

3. Friendship Ice Cream Craft Printable

If you ever have a little tiff with your friend, there’s nothing better than an ice cream that you can use to umm… break the ice! Sea of Knowledge knows this well and they celebrate this fact with a fun printable that talks about the various social skills you need to be a good friend.

4. Friendship Lessons Classroom Printable

What does an ideal friend look like? Well, it is definitely going to be different for each person, and Proud to be Primary has a printable that is a vision board of sorts, so you can ‘attract’ the perfect friend for you!

5. Friends Play Dough Printable

Life Over Cs has an absolutely adorable friendship craft for us, and we love it! All you need or this is the printout, of course, and some play dough. You can cut out the different friends featured and make them sit or stand using playdough. 

6. Trilingual Friendship Heart Wands

As the UN said, one of the purposes of the International Day of Friendship is to spread love and friendship between people of different cultures and ethnicities. Chalk Academy has just the printable for us, with friendship wands in three different languages – English, Chinese, Korean. Go ahead and see if you can make your own versions in different languages!

7. Friendship Activities for Preschoolers

Preschoolers don’t have to feel left out this Friendship Day – we’ve got some cute friendship day printables for them too! Stay-at-Home Educator brings us a bunch of activities and games that’s more than enough to keep the little ones occcupied all week!

8. Ways to be a Friend Storybook

Would you like a little storybook for Friendship Day? Well, you’re in luck, because Proud to be Primary brings us an absolutely adorable printable that you can print out and assemble into a cute little book.

9. Printable BFF Friendship Bracelets

You can make friendship bracelets out of all kinds of materials, and as Kids Activities Blog shows us, even out of paper! This pretty printable is a great choice if you’re looking for a last-minute friendship bracelet and have run out of options!

10. Friendship Coloring Pages Printable

We love the inclusive nature of these friendship day printables from Ayelet Keshet! This is a great quiet time activity for kids of all ages, and they can color it in any way they like. 

We hope that kids can have fun with these friendship day printables and we also hope that it’ll start some conversations about how friendship goes beyond all kinds of borders. Tell kids about some famous friendships and they will realize that friends can be for life, as long as you take the time and effort to stay in touch!