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No Prep Anger Management Bingo Game is a fun and engaging way to help students learn self-control, emotional awareness, and healthy coping skills. Since bingo is a familiar game, it's easy to set up and encourages participation while reinforcing important social-emotional learning concepts. I like using this activity during SEL lessons,…
cut out and glue/tape together each cube template, then roll a cube and perform or discuss the activity landed on (a movement, a yoga pose, a calming strategy, a stretch, or a feeling)
View and use 20 flashcards, each showing a simple calming strategy, with adult (teacher/parent) guidance to practice the strategy.
Follow smiling shape outlines during a guided breathing activity. The cards provide a finger-tracing path, with introductory guidance for using them together. Model the routine before inviting children to follow a shape, keeping the activity focused on a short, supported practice.
Play bingo with coping strategies such as breathing, stretching and positive self-talk.
Write/name 3 personal anger triggers on a 'fire' graphic and color it in; identify 4 personal calm-down strategies to 'put the fire out' and color 'buckets of water'; on the second page, review or select from a list of illustrated calming strategies (squeeze a stress ball, talk to a friend, draw your feelings, play with a pet, belly…
For the BINGO game, students receive a strategies board, listen to a read-aloud scenario card, and place a chip/marker on the strategy they think would be helpful for that scenario (with two scenario sets differentiated for younger vs. older/upper-elementary students), discussing choices as they play. For the calming materials, students…
Create a turtle-shell craft listing personal coping strategies; use a "What should I do" prompt card to select and practice a numbered (1-8) coping strategy when not feeling happy, and complete a feelings sentence frame ("I am feeling ___ because ___").
Follow shape-based breathing boards to practice calming breathing.
Use an assembled flip book to select and practice a calming strategy (e.g., belly breathing, squeeze a stress ball, 5-4-3-2-1 senses, counting to 10, drawing, building/puzzle, listening to music).
Use visual paths to guide a finger-tracing breathing activity. Nine cards give children a route to follow while practicing the breathing exercise. Introduce the routine together, then select a card for a brief guided practice rather than expecting children to interpret the activity independently at first.
Read (or have read to them) a first-person illustrated narrative about winning and losing games, and learn coping strategies (talk to someone, deep breathing, counting to ten, going to a calm space, saying 'well done').
Fill in their own name throughout an interactive 'social story' booklet, circle feelings/symptoms of nervousness that apply to them, color subject areas they are improving in, list calm-down strategies, and answer self-reflection prompts about test-taking tips (sleep/eat well, take your time, use a calm-down strategy).
Student writes their name vertically and, for each letter, writes a coping skill they can use (worked example given: J-Tell or listen to a joke, E-Exercise, N-Try something new, N-Notice objects in the room, Y-Yoga poses). Student also references a 'How Big Is My Emotion?' scale (levels 3 through very big/5) with a linked CALMS…
Try four mindful breathing exercises (Eagle Breathing, Snake Breathing, Hot Air Balloon Breathing, Butterfly Breathing), each with step-by-step instructions, then write down how they feel afterward in a provided 'I feel...' response space.
Read (or have read to them) the social story and learn/practice the suggested calm-down strategies (asking an adult for help, going somewhere quiet, taking deep breaths).
Fill in their own name and personal details to become the main character; draw pictures of themselves and things they love; identify things that make them happy and angry; read about a character who yells, screams, and cries when angry; pick and draw a favorite coping tool; write/reflect on how using coping skills makes them and others…
Roll dice and move around a game board; landing on STOP means acting out a silly self-control challenge (e.g. saying 'Yes' repeatedly until told to stop), landing on THINK means drawing a card and making a calm-down plan for a pictured problem; students can also solve a mystery mosaic coloring puzzle and take home a poster.
Name, describe and act out coping strategies in a review game show.
Think of things that have been worrying them and write those worries down inside a drawn jar illustration.
Students learn 8 calm-down strategies (count to five, take a deep breath, tapping exercises, place hands in pockets, acknowledge what makes you angry, make a fist then relax it, do a body scan, tell someone what you need) through a teacher-led lesson using a companion Google Slide Deck, filling out a note-taker as they go; posters are…
Students cut out a circle and arrow, assemble a spinner wheel with a fastener, and use it to pick a coping strategy; one version has 6 preset strategies to color, the other is blank for students to draw/write their own 6 strategies.
Identify and practice calming strategies while playing coping-skills bingo.
Students view and discuss each poster with a teacher/therapist (e.g. discussing what each letter of an acronym means, matching facial expressions to emotion cards, role-playing behaviors), and in some cases use dry-erase markers on laminated cards or play a memory-matching game with printed emotion cards.