Coping Skills Bingo – Mindfulness & SEL Game

Coping-skills bingo cards pair a grid of self-regulation strategies with matching calling cards and a how-to-use guide for running the game with a class.

Grades: Preschool–3, Elementary
Pages: 50
File type: PDF
Preparation: Print ready

Updated Jun 28, 2025

Subject: Special Education Needs (SEN), Life Skills, Social Skills, Social Emotional Learning (SEL), Special Resources
Topic: Coping Skills Bingo, Coping Strategies Game
Resource types: Games, Activities
Preparation: Print ready

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About this resource

Dozens of uniquely arranged coping-skills bingo cards pair a 5-by-5 grid of self-regulation strategies -- breathe deep, count 1 to 10, hug a toy, squeeze ball, talk to someone, take a break -- with a matching set of calling cards a teacher reads aloud to run the game, plus a free-space centre square on every card. An included how-to-use guide walks teachers through preparing and laminating materials, distributing a card and chips to each player, explaining horizontal, vertical, and diagonal winning patterns, and calling out items one at a time from the shuffled calling cards. A separate bingo-marker page supplies a printable chip or token sheet to cover called squares as they come up. The activity doubles as a bingo game and a mindfulness/SEL vocabulary review, since students must recognize and recall each coping strategy by name as it's called.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Recognize 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.

Teaching tips

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.

Skills covered

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.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

Do all the bingo cards use the same coping-skill items, or different ones?

The same pool of coping-skill items (e.g., breathe deep, count 1 to 10, hug a toy, squeeze ball) is reshuffled into a different grid arrangement on each card, so every card is unique despite drawing from a shared vocabulary list.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

Coping skills
Social-emotional learning
Mindfulness
Self-regulation

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