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Anger Management SEL Strategy Wheel teaching resource preview

Feelings & check-insCoping crafts & plans

Anger Management SEL Strategy Wheel

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.

Includes: preset strategy wheel with strategies visible (drink water, read a book, talk to someone, squeeze/take a break, walk, draw) · blank customizable wheel template · assembly instructions using a brass fastener

File: PDF
Level: 1–3

How My Body Reacts to Emotions Worksheet teaching resource preview

Feelings & check-ins

How My Body Reacts to Emotions Worksheet

For each emotion (angry, sad, happy, scared), write/draw what their body does when they feel it and what the feeling makes them want to do; a blank template lets students fill in their own chosen emotion.

Includes: four worksheet pages, one each for angry, sad, happy, and scared, prompting body-reaction and desired-action reflection

File: PDF

Mental Health Superheroes Activity teaching resource preview

Coping crafts & plans

Mental Health Superheroes Activity

Students listen to/discuss a mentor text about superheroes and big feelings, help create a class graphic organizer of ways to ask for help, color and draw a face on a superhero template, choose 2 phrases from a provided "How to ask for help" list, and write them on speech bubbles attached to their superhero craft

Includes: background/rationale page on children's mental health statistics · mentor text summary/excerpt about superheroes coping with big feelings · step-by-step teacher instructions

File: PDF
Level: 3–6

Gratitude Journal for Little Hands teaching resource preview

Journals & reflection

Gratitude Journal for Little Hands

Students fill in the date, circle/note the day of the week, respond to 'Today I am feeling...', and answer a daily gratitude prompt that rotates (e.g. 'Today I am grateful for...', 'The best thing that happened today...', 'Who makes you feel loved and why?', 'Name someone that helps you').

Includes: Repeating daily journal template pages (date, day-of-week selector, 'Today I am feeling...' prompt, and a rotating daily gratitude/reflection question),…

File: PDF
Level: 1–3

5 Physical & Emotional SEL Cubes teaching resource preview

Coping crafts & plans

5 Physical & Emotional SEL Cubes

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)

Includes: Movement Cube template (e.g., jumping jacks, wall push-ups, bunny hops) · Yoga Cube template (e.g., camel pose, downward dog, boat pose, warrior pose) · Calm Down Cube template (e.g., help out, read a book, ask for a hug, belly breath)

File: PDF
Level: Pre-K, 1–5

Beginning of the School Year | Get to Know You SEL Activity teaching resource preview

Journals & reflection

Beginning of the School Year | Get to Know You SEL Activity

Choose 6 of 22 provided questions, write one on each face of a cut-out cube template, color and decorate it, assemble the cube, play a get-to-know-you game by rolling the cube and answering questions with a classmate, then complete a written debrief about the experience.

Includes: activity description/lesson outline page · list of 22 get-to-know-you questions worksheet · Boom Cube cut-out template worksheet

File: PDF
Level: 3–6

First Day Feelings - Class Book teaching resource preview

Feelings & check-ins

First Day Feelings - Class Book

Illustrate and complete a fill-in-the-blank sentence describing a feeling ('___ felt ___ on the first day of school!') to contribute a page to a class book.

Includes: One fill-in-the-blank feelings page with illustration space

File: PDF
Level: Pre-K, 1

Positive Affirmations Fortune Craft, Mindfulness for Kids, SEL Craft teaching resource preview

Coping crafts & plans

Positive Affirmations Fortune Craft, Mindfulness for Kids, SEL Craft

Color and cut out a paper fortune-teller square, fold it into a fortune teller craft per teacher instructions, use it to reveal printed positive affirmations, discuss the affirmations, and optionally write their own affirmations on a blank 'create your own' template.

Includes: instructions for use page · black-and-white version of fortune teller · color version of fortune teller

File: PDF
Level: 1–6

Friendship First Aid Kit-An SEL activity to help students repair friendship problems teaching resource preview

Coping crafts & plans

Friendship First Aid Kit-An SEL activity to help students repair friendship problems

Fold and staple a printable first-aid-kit template, cut out and color individual 'contents' cards representing friendship-repair strategies (apologize, listen to your friend, use kind words, calm down, wash away anger and forgive, plus a blank 'create your own' card), and place them inside the assembled kit.

Includes: printable 'contents' cards for the kit (Apologize, Listen To Your Friend, Use Soft/Kind Words, Calm Down, Wash Away Anger & Forgive, Create Your Own) · teacher/counselor instructions including a read-aloud book suggestion (Making Friends by Kate Petty and Charlotte Firmin) and an optional real first-aid-kit…

File: PDF
Level: Pre-K, 1–2

Have You Filled a Bucket Craft + Bonus Activities teaching resource preview

Coping crafts & plans

Have You Filled a Bucket Craft + Bonus Activities

Color and cut out a bucket template and assemble a paper origami bucket (using a provided video link), write notes to classmates on 'I want to fill your bucket by telling you that...' cards, complete an 'I will be a bucket filler by...' writing prompt, draw/write in a star shape about a time they filled someone's bucket, and cut out and…

Includes: origami bucket craft with color/cut/assembly directions and an external YouTube video link · multiple 'fill your bucket' compliment/gratitude writing cards · 'I will be a bucket filler by...' writing page

File: PDF
Level: 2–4

Bio Poetry Writing | Posters & Graphic Organizers teaching resource preview

Journals & reflection

Bio Poetry Writing | Posters & Graphic Organizers

Fill in each numbered line of the bio-poem template following the given pattern: first name, four descriptive traits, sibling/child-of relationship, things loved, feelings, needs, what they give, fears, wishes, city of residence, and last name.

Includes: explanation page describing the bio-poem's 11-line pattern (name, traits, family relation, loves, feels, needs, gives, fears, wishes, residence, last name) · multiple blank bio-poem template pages (fill-in-the-blank line format) · a poster-style template variant with the same 11 prompts

Editable

File: Multiple File Types
Level: 1–3

7-Day Diary Printable teaching resource preview

Journals & reflection

7-Day Diary Printable

Write about their day/feelings on blank lines and draw an illustration in a boxed space provided on each page.

Includes: week-beginning header page · blank writing-line pages (day entries)

File: PDF
Level: 1–5

My Inside Weather – SEL Feelings Wheel Craft teaching resource preview

Feelings & check-ins

My Inside Weather – SEL Feelings Wheel Craft

Students color weather images that correspond to different feelings, then cut out an arrow and wheel and assemble them into an interactive feelings wheel.

Includes: single wheel page listing feelings (Happy, Sad, Silly, Mad, Calm, Hopeful) arranged around a 'weather' wheel

File: PDF
Level: Pre-K, 1–3

Preschool Feelings Check-In Board – Coping Skills teaching resource preview

Feelings & check-ins

Preschool Feelings Check-In Board – Coping Skills

Choose a feeling card (SAD, tired, worried, scared, mad) that matches how they feel; choose 3 coping strategies to practice from a set of strategy cards.

Includes: 'If you are not happy, how do you feel?' prompt page · 'Choose 3 Strategies to practice!' prompt page

File: PDF
Level: Pre-K–3

Feelings Charades SEL Cubes teaching resource preview

Feelings & check-ins

Feelings Charades SEL Cubes

Cut, color, and assemble cube templates, then roll the feelings and/or animals cube and act out the result (e.g. an animal, a feeling, or an animal having that feeling) for classmates to guess, or discuss a time they felt that way.

Includes: feelings cube template (angry, grossed out, calm, sad, scared, happy) · animals cube template · blank feelings cube template for students to draw their own feelings

File: PDF
Level: 1–4

Turtle Coping Skills Craft – SEL Behavior Activity teaching resource preview

Coping crafts & plans

Turtle Coping Skills Craft – SEL Behavior Activity

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 ___").

Includes: turtle shell craft template ("My Strategies") · coping strategies prompt card (deep breath, ask an adult for help, feelings sentence frame, choose-a-number 1-8 strategy practice)

File: PDF
Level: Pre-K, 1–5

4 SEL Worksheets-Match The Feeling Face Parts teaching resource preview

Feelings & check-ins

4 SEL Worksheets-Match The Feeling Face Parts

Students cut out face parts, glue them onto a face template to represent a feeling, then answer two writing prompts: 'What feeling is this?' and 'I feel this way when...'.

Includes: 4 worksheets, each with a 'What feeling is this?' prompt and an 'I feel this way when...' writing prompt

File: PDF
Level: Pre-K–1

Class Kindness Activities, Community Building, Random Acts of Kindness teaching resource preview

Journals & reflection

Class Kindness Activities, Community Building, Random Acts of Kindness

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.

Includes: Acts of Kindness fortune-teller craft with directions · kindness-act coloring tracker chart

File: PDF
Level: Pre-K, 1–5

Make Lemonade Out Of Lemons SEL Craft teaching resource preview

Coping crafts & plans

Make Lemonade Out Of Lemons SEL Craft

Watch a linked TED Talk, then write or draw a challenge faced during the year on each of several lemon cut-outs (e.g. 'I did not know how to subtract,' 'I could not tie my own shoes'), color and cut out the lemons and glue them onto a pitcher-of-lemonade template, then write or draw the positive outcome of each challenge inside the…

Includes: title/instructions page with example challenge lemons ('I did not know how to subtract,' 'I could not tie my own shoes') · lemon cut-out templates for writing/drawing challenges

File: PDF
Level: Pre-K, 1–3

Fall Pumpkin Feelings Spinner | Pumpkin Emotions Wheel teaching resource preview

Seasonal templates

Fall Pumpkin Feelings Spinner | Pumpkin Emotions Wheel

Students cut out, assemble (with a brass fastener), and spin a two-layer wheel to reveal and discuss different feelings (Happy, Angry, Sad, Scared, Excited, Surprised, Worried, Tired).

Includes: Bottom Spinner piece with 8 feelings (color)

File: PDF
Level: Pre-K–3

Winter Feelings Check In Board | Preschool Feelings | Preschool Coping Skills teaching resource preview

Seasonal templates

Winter Feelings Check In Board | Preschool Feelings | Preschool Coping Skills

Identify current feeling (e.g. sad, tired, worried, scared, mad), cut out and use feeling cards, and choose 3 coping strategies to practice (e.g. fidget, bubbles, color, countdown blocks, stretch, drink, break).

Includes: feelings check-in prompt page · coping strategies selection page · feeling cards to cut out and laminate (sad, tired, worried, scared, mad)

File: PDF
Level: Pre-K–1

Apple Feelings Spinner | Fall Emotions Wheel | SEL Feelings Check-In teaching resource preview

Seasonal templates

Apple Feelings Spinner | Fall Emotions Wheel | SEL Feelings Check-In

Cut out the front cover and bottom spinner pieces, punch a center hole in each, join them with a brass fastener, then turn the bottom layer to reveal and name a feeling word (angry, happy, sad, scared, excited, surprised, worried, tired) through the cutout window.

Includes: Assembly instructions page

File: PDF
Level: Pre-K–3

Back To School Capybara Fortune Teller teaching resource preview

Seasonal templates

Back To School Capybara Fortune Teller

Color a capybara-themed paper fortune teller, fold it per the included directions, then use it with a partner to ask and answer 8 get-to-know-you questions (e.g. favorite summer activity, a good book read, favorite recess activity, 3 things in common, favorite part of the school day, a goal for the year, a desired superpower).

Includes: Fortune-teller template with 8 get-to-know-you questions and capybara graphics to color · folding directions page

File: PDF