Create Your Personality Sheet
Create a colorful personality sheet listing strengths, favorite activities, feelings, goals, and skills; add drawings, stickers, and avoid sharing personal contact details.
About this activity
Create a colorful personality sheet listing strengths, favorite activities, feelings, goals, and skills; add drawings, stickers, and avoid sharing personal contact details.
What you need
Step by step
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Step 1
Gather all your materials and place them on a clear table or floor space.
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Step 2
Write the title My Personality Sheet at the top of your paper in big fun letters.
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Step 3
Use your pencil to draw five boxes or sections on the page.
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Step 4
Label each box with one heading: Strengths Favorite Activities Feelings Goals Skills.
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Step 5
In the Strengths box write three things you are good at using short phrases.
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Step 6
Draw a small picture or place a sticker next to each strength to show it.
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Step 7
In the Favorite Activities box write three activities you love to do.
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Step 8
Add a drawing or sticker for each favorite activity to make them colorful.
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Step 9
In the Feelings box write words for feelings you often feel like happy sad excited or calm.
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Step 10
Draw faces or use colors to show how each feeling looks or feels.
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Step 11
In the Goals box write one small goal you can do this week and one big goal you want to reach later.
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In the Skills box list at least three skills you can practice such as riding drawing or reading.
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Step 13
Decorate the whole sheet with borders colors and extra stickers to make it bright and fun.
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Step 14
Check your sheet and erase any personal contact details like your phone number or address if you accidentally wrote them.
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Step 15
Ask an adult to help you share your finished personality sheet on DIY.org
Fun facts
How do I help my child create a personality sheet?
To make a personality sheet, start by giving your child a large sheet of paper or poster board and section it into headings: strengths, favorite activities, feelings, goals, and skills. Ask simple prompts for each section and encourage drawing, stickers, and bright colors. Let the child write or dictate responses, add doodles, and decorate borders. Remind them not to include contact details. Display or store the sheet as a keepsake.
What materials do I need to make a personality sheet?
Materials: sturdy paper or poster board, markers, crayons, colored pencils, stickers, glue, scissors, and patterned paper for cutouts. Optional extras include washi tape, stencils, magazine pictures, a ruler, and a laminator to preserve the finished sheet. For younger children, use pre-cut shapes, large crayons, and child-safe scissors. Keep name labels but do not write contact information.
What ages is a personality sheet activity suitable for?
This activity suits ages about 3–14+, with adaptations. Preschoolers (3–5) can draw and dictate simple strengths or feelings while adults write. Early elementary (6–9) can write short words and add stickers. Tweens (10–13) can set goals, reflect on skills, and design layouts. Teens can create more detailed, themed sheets or digital versions. Always supervise scissors and small decorations, and tailor prompts to reading and fine-motor skill levels.
What safety tips should I follow when making or sharing a child's personality sheet?
Safety tips: never include personal contact details, full name, address, school, or phone numbers on sheets shared outside the home. Teach children to use first names only or nicknames and general descriptions (e.g., 'I like soccer'), and get parental permission before posting photos online. Supervise use of scissors, glue, and small decorations to avoid choking. Store finished personality sheets in a private folder or display them at home rather than on public platforms.
Watch & Learn
Need help?
What can we use if we don't have stickers, colored pencils, or printer paper?
If you don't have stickers, colored pencils, or printer paper, use crayons or markers, cut pictures from magazines to glue into your five boxes, or draw with a pen on plain cardboard or a notebook page to complete and decorate your My Personality Sheet.
I'm having trouble drawing five neat boxes and thinking of three strengths—what should I do?
If drawing five boxes neatly or listing three strengths is hard, use a ruler or stick five Post-it notes as temporary boxes and ask an adult to suggest short phrases like 'kind', 'helpful', or 'curious' to write in the Strengths box.
How can I adapt this activity for younger or older kids?
For younger children, reduce to three big sections and let them use stickers or pictures instead of writing, while older kids can expand the Goals box into weekly action steps and add short reflections under each Strengths, Favorite Activities, and Skills entry.
How can we make the Personality Sheet more special or longer-lasting?
To enhance the sheet, laminate it or photograph it for a digital copy, add a small timeline under the Goals box, and glue real photos or extra drawings next to Favorite Activities before asking an adult to help you share it on DIY.org.