Activities To Boost A Child’s Self Esteem/confidence/positive Attitude?

The key to boosting a child’s self-esteem is praise for the right reasons. You might want to focus on tasks that take the child a couple of tries to accomplish so the praise can focus on their effort and tenacity. Puzzles might be a good activity for this.
Another thing to remember is to bring out how the child feels about their accomplishments. Like if the kid finishes a puzzle you can say, “Wow, I bet you feel really proud of yourself for finishing that puzzle!” If you give the kid the tools to build their own sense of pride is will raise their self-esteem more than outside praise ever could.
The one thing to avoid is making is the it so activities and praise are dependent on a child’s natural talent. We all excel in different things and you don’t want a kid to feel bad that they don’t have the same talents as another. You also don’t want a kid who is talented in one thing to feel bad when they aren’t talented in another area. There’s a lot of evidence that praise built on things like being smart or strong hinder the child more than help. Kids who are praised for being smart are more likely to give up on a hard task than kids who are praised for putting forth a great effort.
I hope this give you some ideas.

I will leave your creativity to produce the activities around the ages of these students, the theme of the activity to build self esteem and confidence in a 3nd grader is going to slightly differ for that of a kindergartner or preschool child. Here are a few suggestions for themes for your modules..
for self esteem and confidence maybe make the activities around developing friendships and “two heads are better then one” ideal. Encouraging teamwork, “celebrating diversity” is important and a good topic and “accepting changes” because changes in family life, like a divorce or a recent move away from friends and family can really affect a childs self esteem. The importance of accepting changes can be a hard lesson for children understand, but imagine a catapillar turning into a beautiful butterfly leaving its catapillar friends on the ground and taking flight, or birds flying south for the winter, pro’s and cons why would you rather be a catapillar/butterfly..a bird up north in the winter snow or south in the sun in summer.
for Positive attitude makes these about your students personal strengths or accomplishments, “What they can do best” and “What they could improve” maybe “How can I make a difference” “Name one accomplishment you have done that you are proud of” i.e. learning to ride a bike, tie a shoe.. Things that highlight how accomplishment can make positive difference in life. Center the activity on things the children care about and enjoy. “What do you want to be when you grow up? Why did you choose this?” encourage the children to laugh and have fun. When a child gets in front of a class or group it breaks down barriers of anxiety and fear, empowering them..
One activity the kids could make posters, another one they could draw self portraits, anotehr they could answer what they want to be when they grow up and why, Have them write something unique about themselves on index cards and pass it around and have them guess who it is.. break the children into teams and let them come up with a team names groups of 3 or 4 and have them compete.
especially what Michelle H said in her last paragraph that is very very important, even maybe more important then this is making sure none of your students fall behind or feel lesser then any other, if every student is finished but one and you never looked at that ones progress to provide extra help when needed its not the student who failed its the teacher…just be involved and provide encouragement thats the biggest self esteem confidence and positive attitude booster of them all…I have been the child in the back of the class who was neglected and I have also been the teacher.

never insult him or say bad word in front of him
never fight before him
never compare him with any one
allow him to do what he likes the best
encourage him from taking part in evvery activity he is interested never discourage
tell him about or culture and various scrpture and god like ram krishna and great people and their acievement.
never tell him what religion but he is indian and being indian he should feel proud
compassion he should have towards other

If you put your child in a sport, he/she becomes more social and start having fun.
Sport doesn’t always have to be serious, he/she could have fun and become happy.

play a lot of competitive games and teach them about win,lose,reward, and how should they act about it

DO NOT RESTRICT THE CHILD FROM DOING THE THINGS IT WANT THIS ONLY BOOST ALL THE THING

make up a game with the kids friends or what not that everyone wins