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Help students get to know classmates and build classroom community through a friendship-themed scavenger-hunt bingo activity, provided in two grade-band versions.
A social-emotional learning (SEL) calming/mindfulness activity where students trace a bicycle shape with their finger while practicing controlled breathing to self-regulate.
A social-emotional learning (SEL) companion lesson for the book 'The Invisible Boy' by Trudy Ludwig, teaching students about inclusion/exclusion, empathy, and kindness through a discussion-station activity using invisible ink.
A bingo-style game (multiple pre-made bingo cards plus emotion-word calling material) intended to reinforce identification and labeling of emotions for emotional-literacy/social-skills practice, per the seller description.
A social-emotional learning (SEL) calming/mindfulness activity where students trace an airplane shape with their finger while practicing controlled breathing to self-regulate.
Take-home brochure helping students identify and remember coping strategies for calming down, organized around a personalized name acronym and an emotion-intensity scale.
A card game (played like Apples to Apples) that has students match coping strategies to stressful school/life situations, to build stress-management skills.
A character-education/social-emotional activity where students act out feelings for classmates to guess, practicing clear verbal and nonverbal expression of emotions.
A collection of kindness-themed activities designed to build empathy, social-emotional skills, and a positive classroom community through writing, crafts, and bingo-style games.
Teaches students the 'Trace and Breathe' self-regulation technique: students take a mindful moment to breathe while tracing a car picture with their fingertip, to calm down emotionally.
A HyperDoc (interactive Google Doc-based lesson) teaching students what stress is, how it affects mind and body, and healthy ways to cope with it.
Use discussion prompts to distinguish stressors students can influence from those outside their control. The lesson proposes a book-weight activity as a metaphor for accumulated stress, followed by an index-card reflection on possible strategies. Allow imagined examples and adapt the demonstration with books on a table when needed; the separately linked things I can and cannot control worksheet offers a related independent sorting task.
A partner dice-and-discuss SEL bingo game (file title states Grades 3-6) exploring stress triggers, coping strategies, and the body's stress response, with an accompanying answer sheet.
A card game (played like Apples to Apples) that has students match coping strategies to stressful situations, plus two mindful-coloring pages.
Nine emotion words — happy, sad, angry, surprised, excited, shy, worried, frustrated, and scared — are printed in a grid, each paired with a blank face outline for students to draw the matching facial expression. The two-page file favors breadth of vocabulary over depth, naming nine distinct emotions rather than grouping related feelings, which suits a quick SEL warm-up or check-in activity. A closing credits page thanks the clip-art illustrator and includes a social-media prompt rather than additional content. The same emotion vocabulary can be practiced as a whole-class activity with an emoji bingo game that has students recognize feelings rather than draw them.
Build feelings/emotions vocabulary by matching printed words to their corresponding pictures, to support emotional-intelligence lessons.
Build classroom community and social-emotional/communication skills at the start of the school year through a 'Boom Cube' get-to-know-you game.
A social-emotional learning (SEL) calming/mindfulness activity where students trace a bunny shape with their finger while practicing controlled breathing to self-regulate.
A social story teaching children how to cope when a friend wants to play something different, or doesn't want to play, without becoming angry or upset.
A first-person social story that explains what depression is, how it can affect feelings/behavior, and coping strategies, aimed at helping a child (particularly one who is autistic or otherwise struggles with interpreting emotions) understand depression.
A 6-station SEL companion lesson reinforcing the book 'Better Than You' by Trudy Ludwig, focused on distinguishing sharing from bragging and healthy friendship behaviors.
Do you struggle to think of good {and easy} games and activities to use with your students to support social skills? This resource contains some of my most favorite, easy-to-play activities, as well as books to read and apps. that address social skills.
Give grades 4-5 students practice applying the RACE writing strategy to reading passages with mental health and SEL themes (companion set to a related mental-health-prompts product).
The Empathy or Not Empathy Game: An Educational Resource This unique game, modelled on popular TV game shows, aims to improve children's ability to empathise with diverse emotional states among their peers. It is an excellent tool for teachers in public schools and homeschools who want innovative ways of enhancing social-emotional learning. Product…