Coping Skills Bingo – Mindfulness & SEL Game

Recognise and recall a variety of coping strategies for managing stress or big emotions.

Apply a named coping strategy when it is called during a group game.

Practice turn-taking and following game rules within a structured group activity.

Laminate the bingo cards and calling cards for repeated use across multiple SEL lessons, as the guide suggests.

Let students take turns serving as the caller to reinforce the coping-skill vocabulary from both sides of the game.

Use the game to introduce or review coping strategies before a stressful classroom event (e.g., a test) rather than only as a stand-alone activity.

Coping strategy recognition — students identify named self-regulation strategies (e.g., breathe deep, count to 10, squeeze ball) as they are called during the bingo game.

Game-pattern recognition — students track horizontal, vertical, and diagonal patterns across their bingo card to identify a win.

SEL vocabulary reinforcement — students connect a spoken coping-skill phrase to its matching bingo-card square.