6th Grade School Counseling Activities

Our students constantly face a lot of difficulties and struggles whether it's family, school or community related. This resource could help and support them to handle their difficulties and struggles better.

This resource focuses on 4 areas of resiliency:

1. Self-Awareness

2. Conflict resolution

3. Empathy

4. Teaching Courage

It includes:

1. Definition of terms

2. Activities for each area

3.Inputs to use for discussion for each area

3. Processing Questions for each activity

This 24-page Worry Journal can easily be used for the classroom or individuals at home, of many ages.

The border art is designed to relax, and offer an area to color each day. Try coloring the flowers to match your mood for the day. (Refer to your Mood Chart for colors.)

24 pages include:
1. Mood Coloring Chart : 10 colors with coordinating moods, and clipart objects to color.

2. Mood Coloring Chart Draw your own items indicating the moods of each of them 10 colors.

3. Draw a picture of ....

4. Daily Mood Journal : simple lines for writing areas (print as many copies as needed)

5. Daily Mood Journal : decorative clipart writing areas (print as many copies as needed)

6. Today I Am ...…. write it out. : simple lines (print as many copies as needed)

7. Today I Am ...…. write it out. : decorative clipart writing areas (print as many copies as needed)

8. Let’s Get Grounded : 3-2-1 grounding techniques (answers can be as simple as “got out of bed,” etc.)

9. I Get Anxious.... (drawing, etc)

10. Worry Be Gone ...

11. My Anxious Body ....

12. I Can Fix It (including drawing)

13. Happy Place : draw/write ...

14. Common Worries : Give advice...

15. Worry Jar, Happy Jar : activity instructions

16. My Goals...

17. Grateful ... (NOTE: this page to be used for general worries, and not traumas, as we could never be “thankful” for anything trauma-related).

18. Worry Acrostic Poem

19. I Am Me...

20. Let’s Focus : Write/draw...

21. Daily Mantras : fill in the blanks

22. Compare & Contrast Worry

23. The Worry Monster : write & illustrate...

24. Worry Search : Word Search, 19 happy words & 1 worry

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Worry Journal Coping Skills for anxiety COMP BOOK SEL

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Looking for a fun and interactive way to check in on your students' emotional well-being? Vibe Checkins is your answer!
This engaging resource includes 20 unique slides featuring a wide variety of relatable categories like:

• Animals
• Emojis
• People (diverse representations) ‍‍
• Funny Faces
• Nature
• Food (healthy & sweet options)
• Fashion
• Hobbies & Play ⚽️
• and more!

Here's how Vibe Checkins helps you connect with your students:

• Spark meaningful conversations about emotions using visuals that resonate with all ages.
• Go beyond "good" or "bad" feelings with follow-up questions that encourage students to describe their moods in detail.
• Provide tips for managing emotions and fostering self-awareness.
• Create a positive classroom environment where students feel comfortable expressing themselves.
• Gain valuable insights into your students' emotional state to better support their individual needs.

Vibe Checkins is perfect for:

• Group discussions
• One-on-one check-ins
• Daily mood reflections
• Social-emotional learning (SEL) activities

Download Vibe Checkins today and watch your students blossom!

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Help teens with empathy and kindness by giving access to personalized Spanish cards. This 23 page packet addresses friendship, health, love, and self-confidence. Helps address the whole student, provide emotional support, promote positive messages, and reinforce collaborative peer interactions with make and give, creative writing teen cards. Includes: 5 male and 5 female front sided cards 10 inspirational sayings in Spanish with writing spaces Blank writing sections for creative personalized messages Black and white images for coloring Personalized signs in Spanish on back read: "Hecho especialmente Para ti por" Directions for use Unlimited combination options: Numbered front pages match numbered inside quotes for infinite copying options Excellent for teaching description, main idea, genre writing, and word choices. Great for bell warmers, early finishers, and journaling. Can be used with homeschooled groups, counseling groups, service learning, and writing clubs. Fun, creative, thought provoking, and motivational. Can even be used at teacher professional development sessions!

Help the girls in your classroom or home develop emotional awareness and self-regulation with this fun, engaging emotions chart! This resource is designed specifically for girls to check in on their feelings, learn to identify emotions, and find healthy ways to manage them. Perfect for fostering emotional intelligence, this chart is ideal for teachers, counselors, and parents looking to support young girls in their social-emotional growth.

What’s Included:

• Daily Feelings Check-In Chart: A fun, interactive way for girls to express their emotions each day.
• Emotional Regulation Strategies: Simple techniques and strategies to help manage and understand different emotions.
• Empowering Visuals and Positive Language: Beautiful designs that girls will love, featuring affirmations and encouraging prompts.

Why You'll Love It:

• Builds Self-Awareness: Encourages girls to recognize and label their emotions, a crucial step in emotional development.
• Promotes Emotional Resilience: Helps girls learn ways to cope with their feelings in a healthy, positive way.
• Easy to Use: Perfect for classroom settings, small groups, or at home.

'Tis the season to spread joy and kindness. Allow your students to light up the world with this adorable Christmas themed worksheet. Students simply fill in each box with examples of how they can spread kindness this season. Students can choose to write or draw in their answers.

Resource comes in colored and black/white versions.

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Are you searching for engaging and therapeutic ways to help children reflect on their counseling journey as it comes to an end? Our "Counseling Termination Activities" resource is the perfect solution. This comprehensive collection of activities, worksheets, and crafts is designed to support young children’s ongoing mental health and well-being journey.

WHAT’S INCLUDED:

• Reflective Worksheets and Activity Mats: Help children reflect on their time in counseling and understand their personal growth through engaging and interactive worksheets and activity mats.
• Summer Holiday Ideas: Promote mental health and self-care with fun and practical summer activities.
• Self-Care Bucket Lists: Encourage children to create their own self-care and mental health bucket lists, with prewritten ideas to inspire them.
• Summertime Crafts: Engage children with creative and therapeutic crafts that are perfect for the summer season.
• Much More: A variety of activities that ensure a smooth transition and positive closure to the counseling experience.

KEY BENEFITS:

• Facilitate Reflection: Guided worksheets help children articulate their thoughts and feelings about their counseling experience.
• Promote Mental Well-Being: Summer holiday ideas and self-care activities support ongoing mental health and well-being.
• Encourage Creativity: Fun and engaging crafts provide a creative outlet and promote emotional expression.
• Support Smooth Transitions: Activities designed to help children process the end of counseling and look forward to the future.

PERFECT FOR:

• Counselors and Therapists: Enhance your termination sessions with meaningful activities that help children reflect and transition smoothly.
• Educators: Use these resources to support students as they conclude their counseling sessions and prepare for summer.
• Parents: Provide your child with tools and activities to reflect on their progress and promote ongoing mental health and self-care.

With our "Counseling Termination Activities," you can create a supportive and positive end to the counseling journey, ensuring children feel confident and prepared for the future. This invaluable resource will help them understand their growth, practice self-care, and enjoy a mentally healthy summer.

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This exciting summer-themed 30-second speech activity is great for AVID, counseling, college and career, speech, or just used as a fun brain break in any class! Use it at the end of the year to test your students public speaking, dialogue, eye contact, planning, and teamwork skills!

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What's Included:

• 1 directions pages
• 1 optional points slide
• 15 summer topics with silent 30 second prep timers
• 15 thirty-second speech timer slides
• 1 editable template to make your own OR let students make their own!

Directions:

• Put students into groups or breakout rooms of 4-6 students
• Go over the directions with students:
• Wait for the impromptu topic to show up on the screen (ex: convince your friends that applesauce is the best sunburn remedy)
• Decide who in the group will start and that student will have 30 seconds to prepare for their speech after the topic is revealed
• After 30 seconds the student will present their topic for 30 seconds

Optional Points:

• Secretly give points/take away points from group members on a small whiteboard or notebook paper
• Groups can earn by: Focusing on good voice, being creative with their responses, eye contact, posture, using an opening/closing statement, and making good points for your topic
• Groups can lose points by: being a poor audience member, having poor posture, not using good voice, not using eye contact, using filler words: like, um, so, okay, yeah, kinda…

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General Version with 25 Topics

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In this product, students will discuss their feelings in their feelings emotion book. the definitions of the following emotions are included: angry, calm, disgusted, excited, happy, jealous, proud, scared, shy, silly, surprised, upset, and worried. Students can write when they felt these emotions in the past and can draw a picture. A picture is provided with each emotion to help students as well.

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The AVID Career Exploration Early Finishers Packet is an essential resource for career planning, goal setting, and skill development for middle and high school students. This engaging packet is designed to help students explore potential careers, discover their strengths, and set actionable goals for their future success. Perfect for AVID programs, career readiness programs, and high school career exploration classes, this packet includes a variety of interactive activities to guide students in identifying their passions and preparing for their careers.

Included Activities:

• Cover Page
• Career Interest Survey
• Response to Career Interest Survey
• Career Frayer Model
• Step Into Your Dreams- shoe design activity
• WICOR This- WICOR strategies that will help with careers
• Finish The Story- students describe how they would either use logic or get creative to solve a problem in the provided prompt
• Career This or That
• Why It’s Important to Think About Your Career Early- article with questions
• Career Wordsearch- students create a wordsearch using vocabulary from a career they are interested in
• Action Plan One-Pager- students design a one-pager including a road map that maps our their goals and future plans
• Career Affirmations Self Portrait- students make the portrait look like themselves and then write 5-10 positive career-focused affirmations about themselves. For example: “I am a problem-solver and can think critically in challenging situations.”

Key Features:

• Focuses on career development and goal setting for middle and high school students.
• Designed for early finishers in AVID programs or any high school class.
• Engages students in self-reflection, career discovery, and skill development.
• Perfect for use as an extension activity or independent work.
• Helps students visualize their career paths and map out steps to achieve their goals.

Start each and every morning on a positive note with these unique inspirational quotes, motivational quotes, or daily quick write statements. Use the included inspirational quotes in a variety of ways, my favorite being as a quote of the day activity with students. This download includes a printable version and a link to the digital Google Slides™ version.

Pick one of the 180 included inspirational quotes to read aloud to your classroom or on the school news. Engage students in a discussion as to what the inspirational quote means to them. Deepen student understanding and enrich student learning by using these motivational quotes as a daily quick write activity prompt with your students. 

Included in this Download:

• 180 Inspirational Quotes (PDF Download, Printable)
• "I liked the quote.." Exit Tickets 
• Google Slides™ Link (clickable link found on page three of PDF)

Start school on a positive note as you build classroom community and make your students feel at ease in the classroom. At the beginning of each class or at the start of the day, pull out a quote at random and read it to the class. Leave “I Liked the Quote” slips next to your Inspiration Jar (the container you house the quotes in). When a student feels moved by a quote, they can write down the quote to keep for when they need a little inspiration.

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How does media effect one's self esteem?

This package contains 6 lessons and a culminating task that will address this topic.

The package is meant to be taught over at least five lessons. With discussion, each page should easily fill a 45- to 60-minute lesson block.

Lessons include:

- definitions and discussion

- Influence of the Media

- self esteem and music videos

- what happens when a "beauty" company helps people see their beauty?

- evolution of an advertisement (print media/photoshopping)

- overcoming stereotypes and negative comments

- Think about how awesome you are

- Hand of friendship (culminating task)

There is currently no final assessment piece included in this package.

Each lesson, except the last, should be started with a gratitude journal page. The idea behind this it to help students see that they have a lot to be grateful for, regardless of what the media may portray to them. The journal pages shouldn’t take anymore than 5 minutes, max. For photo copying purposes, the journal page is placed before the worksheet, for any given lesson.

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Are you looking for a way for students to relax and be mindful in the New Year? Your students will be delighted with this fun HAPPY NEW YEAR Zentangle coloring sheet! Coloring promotes relaxation and mindfulness and gives your doodlers something to keep their hands busy with so they can better focus in class.

How to use this product:

• As a bulletin board
• For early finishers
• As a holiday gift for friends and loved ones
• As a way to relax and calm down

This product includes:

• 1 Happy New Year Zentangle
• Terms of Use

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This Pokemon-themed bundle includes a no-hitting or kicking social story along with break cards, a token board, power cards, and a green choice/red choice visual. This has everything you need to provide your student with positive behavior supports to help teach them and motivate them to learn how to be safe at school.

⭐Social Story

Editable No Hitting or Kicking

Use PowerPoint or Google Slides to make this story personalized to your student.

⭐Power Cards:

When I am hungry

When I am sleepy

When my teacher says No!

When my work is too hard

When other kids are annoying

When I lose a game

Editable Template Included to target any skill necessary

⭐Token Board 'Collect them all'

(multiple icons)

⭐Green Choice/Red Choice Board

⭐Break Cards

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Get ready for an exciting Back to School experience with our Jigsaw Coloring Puzzles! This engaging activity combines the fun of coloring with the challenge of assembling jigsaw pieces, making it perfect for students of all ages. Each puzzle features a delightful Back to School-themed illustration, and once completed, it creates a stunning work of art that can be proudly displayed in classrooms or at home. Let creativity and problem-solving skills shine as students piece together the puzzle, and then add their personal touch with vibrant colors. A perfect activity to kickstart the new school year with enthusiasm and creativity!

WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE

• 15 Pages
• (PDF + PNG)
• Large 8.5” x 11” designs that can easily be printed on regular sized paper
• High-resolution images
• Unlimited prints
• Great for kids, boys, girls, and teens

Leadership Lessons from Disney Characters SEL Lesson puts a whole new meaning to interactive, meaningful, and fun for all! In this lesson, the students will work to ask intentional questions in order to figure out the character in several rounds of "Who is It?!" while also learning and reflecting from moments in which Disney characters demonstrated leadership in their movies! This lesson includes the complete Google Slide download and reflection questions and is ready to go for your next leadership lesson. 12 characters and quotes ready to go, specific instructions, + reflection questions to follow. My students loved this and the conversation that followed was great, too!!

Enhance social-emotional learning in your classroom with the engaging "I Have, Who Has?" Emotions Game! Designed to promote active participation, this game is perfect for class meetings, guidance lessons, or building a positive classroom climate. With 32 interactive cards, students will strengthen their listening, speaking, and empathy skills while having fun. To add even more excitement, encourage students to act out the emotions during play! Whether you're working on emotional awareness or fostering community, this game is a dynamic tool that supports meaningful learning and connection. Ideal for any age group!

Instill a love of learning and a growth mindset in students with this creatively designed coloring book! This 30-page digital download features unique growth mindset quotes embedded into artful imagery perfect for coloring.

Filled with inspirational sayings like "Challenges help me grow," "I can do hard things," and "My effort leads to success," this coloring book promotes a positive mindset around effort, persistence, and viewing challenges as opportunities to learn.

Designed for elementary students but suitable for any age, this coloring book is ideal for:

*Morning work or bell ringers to set an intention for the day

*"Brain breaks" to reset focus during testing days

*Counseling and SEL lessons on mindfulness and resilience

*Independent art time when students need self-directed activities

With thought-provoking quotes and space for students to add their own creative color, this growth mindset coloring book is perfect for classrooms, counseling offices, intervention services, and more!

Library Week Collaborative Coloring Poster: New Book New Adventure.

Get ready to celebrate Library Week in style with our collaborative poster activity. Join us as we come together to showcase the joy of reading through a vibrant and inspiring poster.

In this delightful activity, each student will receive a unique coloring page. These coloring pages are sure to captivate the imagination of every student. What makes this activity truly special is that each individual coloring page is a piece of a larger puzzle, contributing to the creation of a collaborative masterpiece.

The collaborative poster is in a 37.5 × 30-inch size, divided into 20 squares (one for each student).

The design features very clean edges, without any crisp lines.

In this pack you will receive:

• A PDF that includes 25 Pages.
• Each page size 8.5×11 inch
• Poster Sample
• Poster template
• Students instruction
• Coloring page

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The power of Values Education and character building are essential parts of a student's life because they help shape who we are and how we treat others. Learning about respect, honesty, and kindness helps students understand the importance of making good choices and being responsible. By using affirmations and mottos, students can reflect on their thoughts and feelings, reminding themselves of their goals and the kind of person they want to be.

Included in this product are:

* A list of Affirmations

* "Mottos to Live By" list

* Worksheet to write and illustrate students' mottos or affirmations

* Brainstorming worksheet: "Ideas I am Curious About Investigating"

* "Using your creativity" ideas list

* "Butterfly A Day" coloring and activity

* "Match Game" Vocabulary Game (values such as empathy, accountability, and perseverance

* Take Home Vocabulary Study Sheet

* Values vocabulary quiz

* A "Reflections" worksheet for students to discuss their own experiences

* Kindness Cards for peers and teachers

* Suggested booklist on Kindness