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Background: Kangaroo mother care (KMC) is a special way of caring low birth weight infants by skin to skin contact, it promotes their health and well being by effective thermal control, breast feeding and bonding. So, KMC Is initiated at hospital and continued at home also. This study aimed to assess the counseling skill of Third Year GNM students in Simulated Scenario in order to prepare the information booklet in selected colleges of Kheda and Anand District. Methods: A Descriptive Study design was used for this study. Total of 167 students were selected based on non probability convenient sampling technique. Tool consisted of two parts, socio demographic variable and Checklist on Counseling of Kangaroo mother care, it consisted of 30 items. A self structured checklist was prepared to assess the counseling skill in simulated scenario by direct observation. Information booklet was prepared on counseling of Kangaroo mother care and it was given to study participants at the end of the data collection. A study was conducted between 23rd December, 2019 to 4th January, 2020. Analysis was done using descriptive and inferential statistics and based on study objectives. Results: Study result showed that Majority of the subjects were Female 74.25%, 94.61% have not attended any conference, CNE or Workshop, 80.84% were Hindu, 63.47% were living with their family, 55. 59% were spending 1 hour per day for study and 52.09% were living in Joint family type. Study result revealed that majority of the Third Year GNM students 64.67% had an average counseling skill. Association between socio-demograhic variable and simulated counseling technique on Kangaroo mother care showed that Average number of hours spend per day to study is significant at p<0.10. Conclusion: This study concluded that Skills on counseling of Kangaroo mother care among Third Year GNM students is average and there is need to improve the skills by increasing their exposure to Kangaroo mother care technique during their clinical exposure as they are future nurses.