The purpose of this study was to identify how character education activities utilizing picture books
affect pro-social behaviors of young children. The subjects were 46 children aged 5 who attended
private child care centers in G city. The children were allocated to either the experiment group or
the control group. The data were collected for 12 weeks and the activity sessions were provided to
the experiment group 3 times a week (36 times in total). The sessions consisted of an integrated
approach toward character education. Therefore, various activities were included such as listening to
the stories of picture books, discussion, drama, language activities, music, mathematics, science and
games. The findings of this study were as follows: The experiment group which experienced
character education utilizing picture books has significantly improved their pro-social behaviors
compared to the control group. The approach positively influenced the overall sub-variables such as
leadership, helping, communication, initiative consideration, approach trial, sharing, empathy, and
emotional control. The character education activities should be applied to character education utilizing
picture books for young children because they let young children experience building up trust and
learn social attitude, and influenced increase of pro-social behaviors on young children.