Kindergarten Social Emotional Learning Activities

Do you need engaging brain breaks? This single-page listening activity is great for celebrating summer, Arbor Day, or for adding to your June sub plans. Just print and play! The music is available on YouTube or your favorite streaming services.

While listening, students color the scene and choose the keywords/elements that resonate with their listening experience. There are also blank lines for writing in additional keywords. Students often engage in discussions about what they've heard or felt. Great for displaying!

Featured Music

The Five Sacred Trees - John Williams

Learning Objectives

• increased knowledge of the composition
• familiarity with the composer's works
• ability to recognize, and engage with, popular pieces of classical music
• identify different instrument sounds
• social-emotional exploration of feelings and moods within classical music
• creative expression by drawing and choosing colors related to a musical theme

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This packet gives you the resources needed to set up a Calming Corner in your classroom or home. Calming Corners help children deal with their BIG feelings and gain self-regulation skills while they calm down. A Calming Corner can provide children with a safe place to process their emotions and regulate their responses. The Calming Corner can help children de-escalate emotions and anxiety before these feelings become overwhelming. It can also help children filter out sensory information and regain emotional balance.

What’s Included?

Guide for Teachers or Parents

Printable Book “I Can Calm Down” (In Color and B/W)

“Feelings and Emotions” Cards (These cards are my #1 BEST SELLER on TeachShare)

“How do you feel?” Poster

Directions for Yoga Poses

Printable Yoga Cards

Instructions for Calming Breaths

Printable Calming Breath Cards (Can also be used as a poster)

Directions for Making Sensory Bottles

Recipe for Homemade Playdough

Printable Playdough Mats

Help students recognize and express their emotions with this Apples Feelings Poster! Featuring 15 different feelings and matching cards, this hands-on resource is perfect for encouraging emotional awareness and self-expression.

Contents:
The Apples Feelings Poster set is a vibrant, engaging tool for teachers to help students better understand and express their emotions. This set includes a poster showcasing 15 different feelings—happy, mad, sad, tired, scared, loved, anxious, naughty, silly, surprised, bored, worried, crying, laughing, each paired with a matching card. Students can visit the poster, select the card that represents their current emotion, and place it in the middle of the poster, making emotional expression a daily activity in the classroom.

How the Product is Used:
Teachers will hang the Apples Feelings Poster in a prominent spot in the classroom, allowing students easy access to the matching emotion cards. Throughout the day, students can reflect on their feelings and select the corresponding card to place on the poster. This activity fosters emotional development, communication, and self-awareness. It’s an excellent addition to morning meetings, social-emotional learning lessons, or as a daily check-in tool.

Why They’ll Love This Product:
Teachers will love how this resource seamlessly integrates emotional learning into their daily routine. The clear visuals and wide range of emotions make it easier for students to identify how they feel, promoting healthy emotional expression. Students will love the interactive nature of choosing their feeling card and the colorful apple-themed design that keeps the classroom environment fun and inviting.

What Features Are Included:

• A poster with 15 different emotions depicted on apples
• 15 matching feeling cards for students to interact with
• Easy-to-understand visual representation of emotions
• Great for social-emotional learning, morning check-ins, or group discussions
• Helps students develop self-awareness and emotional regulation

Who This Product Is For:

1. Preschool and kindergarten teachers wanting to integrate emotional learning into daily activities
2. Homeschool educators focusing on social-emotional development
3. Counselors or therapists working on emotional regulation with young students
4. After-school programs that want to foster emotional intelligence
5. Special education teachers looking for tools to support emotional recognition

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Get in the festive spirit with your students by relaxing using these Christmas Mindfulness Breathing Exercise Cards. Enjoy 8 different breathing exercises thinking about some favorite holiday treats! You will enjoy relaxing & breathing with presents, trees, super elves & more!

Included:

8: 8x10 Colorful Visual posters to decorate your classroom or your hallways.

Colorful direction cards to help with your breathing and visualizations

8 small colorful visuals - put them on your lanyard or on your students desks.

Are you looking for a fun way to encourage social emotional development, support your students' mental health and emotional well-being this winter season? If your students love play dough, this hands-on holiday resource will provide meaningful opportunities to learn, identify, discuss, and practice feelings / emotions through play!

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✏️It includes 36 differentiated play dough mats (available in color or black & white)!

✏️Save time! Simply print, laminate, or place in a page protector folder and add play dough! Students may also use a dry-erase pen to trace, write, and draw!

✏️Includes 40 feelings /emotions vocabulary cards and 21 differentiated pages of worksheets.

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⭐️Great for literacy centers, sub tub, individual, small group, partner work, early finishers, or extra practice at home for your preschool, kindergarten,1st grade or 2nd grade learners!

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✅Includes: (62 pages)

☑ Trace and draw (20 pages)

☑ Write and draw (8 pages)

☑ Draw (8 pages)

☑ Feelings vocabulary flashcards (5 pages - 40 cards)

☑ "Winter Feelings!" worksheets - (5 pages)

☑ "How are You?" worksheets - (16 pages)

✅Bonus: (62 pages)

☑ Black & white set (62 pages)

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✅Feelings included: (19 feelings)

☑ afraid

☑ bored

☑ calm

☑ confused

☑ curious

☑ disgusted

☑ excited

☑ frustrated

☑ happy

☑ jealous

☑ lonely

☑ loved

☑ nervous

☑ proud

☑ sad

☑ sorry

☑ surprised

☑ tired

☑ worried

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⭐️Looking for more winter resources?

Winter Growing Bundle

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If you're a teacher who’s feeling overwhelmed by the growing need to address emotional and mental well-being in your classroom, this mental health awareness and social-emotional learning curriculum bundle could be exactly what you need.

I know how challenging it can be to manage student behavior, create a positive classroom environment, and still cover all the academic requirements.

This resource is designed to save you time and energy by providing ready-made lessons that help students learn how to express their emotions, manage stress, and build empathy—all essential skills that lead to better focus and fewer disruptions.

Imagine having a classroom where students understand how to handle their feelings and treat one another with kindness.

This curriculum will help you foster that kind of environment, making your day-to-day teaching experience smoother and less stressful. It’s all about addressing the whole child, helping them develop emotionally as well as academically.

And with so many students facing different challenges, you’ll have the tools to support them all, from those with behavioral struggles to those who just need a little extra help navigating their emotions. This bundle will allow you to give your students the social-emotional skills they need to thrive, while also giving you the relief of having these essential lessons ready to go.

This bundle is over 100 pages of mental health awareness activities, calm down corner printables, and mindfulness for kids breathing exercises including baby animal and rainbow breathing cards.

Let's Explore Feelings! Fun with Faces and Words

This exciting worksheet is all about the many feelings we experience! Get ready to be an artist, a detective, and a storyteller!

Here's what kid'll do:

1. Become a Face Artist! Look at the blank face on the page. Imagine different feelings and emotions. Use crayons or markers to draw what a happy face might look like, or a sad face, or even a surprised one!
2. Word Detective! See those words below the faces? Trace the letters with a pencil to learn how to spell words like "happy," "sad," and "surprised."
3. Storytelling Time! Think about situations that might make someone feel a certain way. For example, if you drew a happy face, what could make you feel happy? Maybe getting a new toy or playing with friends? Write a short sentence about a situation that might cause that feeling.

This worksheet is a fun way to explore the world of emotions and how to express them!

In order to learn and grow, children first need to be able to express how they feel and why they feel that way! Placing an emphasis on social emotional learning will help equip your students with skills to become better learners and ultimately better people.

Play and Purposes Friendship unit focuses on:

• Using picture books to share real life examples of how we can understand how to be a good friend
• Practicing working on being a good friend individually, in pairs, small groups, and as a whole class
• Learning about friendship, being a good friend, and treating others with respect through playing games, writing, and creative expression

The 20 lessons included in this unit include 5 activity types:

• Read and React
• Play in a Pair 
• Read and Respond
• Let’s Play Together
• Color and Create

Many lessons contain ways to scaffold the learning to your students and allow for the most learning to take place as possible! 

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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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Social Emotional Learning can be engaging, active, and self-reflective.

Grab your students' attention with this beautifully illustrated walk through our inner emotional lives.

Learn how to ask yourself important questions, such as noticing emotions and where we feel them in the body.

Learn many yoga poses and breathing activities in this 13 slide activity.

This Emotions Matching Activity makes the perfect Social and Emotional Center for your Kindergarten students this Back to School season. Learners will practice identifying and matching emotions on the animal's faces.

Perfect for use during kindergarten centers or with small groups of students, this emotions matching activity is simple to prepare and can be used again and again. Color and black and white versions are provided and your students will love the fun and cute emotions and faces.

⭐ This printable is also part of the following bundles:

-Kindergarten Back to School Math and Literacy Centers

What is included in this Emotions Matching Back to School Center for Kindergarten?

• Match the Emotions
• Recording Sheets
• Black and White Copies

How do learners complete this Kindergarten Match the Emotions and Faces Activity?

• Present the learners with the matching cards.
• Learners will identify the emotion shown on the cat's face and will match the correct dog's face (emotion) to it.

Preparing this Back to School Kindergarten SEL Center:

• Print the activity pages and laminate.
• Cut apart to create the emotion matching cards.
• Print the recording sheets if required.

How to best use this Back to School SEL Center:

• Explore during morning work 
• Assign as supplemental math centers 
• Implement these centers in an independent way or use them with small-groups.

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Your students will love these good choices and bad choice sorts! Engage your K-2 students with this interactive worksheet and group activity focusing on good choices and bad choices.

This resource includes worksheets, sorts, and activities to help young students understand the concepts of good choices and bad choices. It is perfect for small group lessons on expectations or as a center activity. Teachers can also laminate the group sort for a visual classroom display.

Benefits:

• Multiple options for sorts to teach students about decision-making

Instructions/Tips for Implementation:

Utilize this resource in small group lessons to teach expectations or as a center activity. Laminate the group sort for a long-lasting visual display in the classroom.

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This set of worksheets help kids understand personal space in a fun and friendly way. It includes different activities that teach about respecting boundaries and interacting with others.

• Coloring Page: A creative way to introduce the concept of personal space.
• Maze Activity: Navigate to a friend without crossing into others’ personal space.
• Thumbs Up and Down Activity: Identify good and bad personal space behaviors.
• Cut and Paste Activity: Arrange characters at the right distance in various scenarios.
• Reflecting Page: A place for students to think and write about their experiences with personal space.

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Feelings, Feelings Chart, Feelings Check-In, Checklist – This interactive resource is perfect for helping children express their emotions and identify areas of discomfort. "Where Do You Feel Pain?" is designed for teachers, counselors, and parents to support kids in understanding their physical and emotional well-being.

This resource includes:

• A large body diagram for children to mark areas of pain or discomfort.
• A feelings chart to help kids associate their emotions with physical sensations.
• A check-in checklist to encourage self-awareness and communication.
• Bright, colorful visuals to engage young learners.

Perfect for:

• Classroom emotional check-ins.
• Therapy and counseling sessions.
• Teaching body awareness and fostering self-expression.

Support children in identifying their feelings and needs with this easy-to-use, kid-friendly tool!

Fun Autism awareness Quotes Coloring Pages For Toddler, Preschool, Kindergarten, Girls, Boys Kids. This paint dauber coloring Pages is perfect for younger to practice pre-writing skills and have fun at the same time. Makes a fun gift!

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Gratitude worksheets perfect for many ages! Simply have your students write or draw what they are grateful for in each box. Perfect activity for the upcoming Holidays! Can be used in 1:1 sessions, small groups, whole classrooms. Great for quiet work, early finishers, rainy day, etc.

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EXPLORING EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING SKILLS FOR LITTLE LEARNERS

Are you on the lookout for a captivating and practical way to introduce the executive functioning skill of impulse control to young children? Our "Impulse Control Iguana" Lesson and Craft is an interactive educational toolkit designed to spark the interest of little learners and guide them in understanding the importance of thinking before acting. This resource is perfect for teachers, school counselors, and parents who want to blend a delightful story with practical tips and an enjoyable craft activity, making the learning process about impulse-control both fun and impactful.

"Impulse Control Iguana" Lesson and Craft is a carefully created resource that focuses on teaching children the skill of controlling their immediate reactions to situations. It introduces an engaging narrative about an iguana who learns to think before she leaps, along with a tip sheet filled with effective strategies, and a charming craft activity. It's an ideal resource for classroom instruction, counseling sessions, or at-home learning, providing a comprehensive approach to teaching this essential executive functioning skill.

THIS RESOURCE INCLUDES:

• Engaging Story to Read: Jump into the adventures of an iguana who discovers the importance of impulse control. The story is written to show the benefits of thinking before acting in a manner that is simple and attractive for young learners.
• Executive Functioning Tip Sheet: Discover a selection of tips and activities tailored for educators, counselors, and parents. This guide provides practical advice on how to support children in learning to control their impulses, creating habits and routines that foster patient and thoughtful responses.
• Make Your Own Impulse Control Iguana Craft: Children can dive into a creative activity to construct their very own cut & paste Impulse Control Iguana. Offered in both black and white for coloring and in vibrant full color, this craft emphasizes the lesson's message and promotes the development of fine motor skills.

Our "Impulse Control Iguana" Lesson and Craft is a unique educational resource that brings the concept of self-regulation and impulse control to life for little learners. By interacting with this lesson plan, children will embark on a journey of self-discovery, learning the importance of controlling impulses in a playful and engaging way, building a foundation for success in future learning endeavors.

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These creative Litter Box Movement Game slides were designed to be printed, displayed, and reimagined while you teach. Use this Google Slide file to display these beautiful images one-by-one on a large screen. Are you in need of a creative and unique Movement Game Activity to get your students excited to learn and stay engaged in your lesson? Do you need an activity that focuses on SEL: Social and Emotional Learning? Do want an activity that promotes UDL: engagement, representation, and expression? I hope you and your kiddos love this! Enjoy.

Are you looking for meaningful activities to help children understand and appreciate gratitude? Our Gratitude Journal Worksheets for Kids are the perfect resource to nurture a positive mindset and encourage thankfulness.

Designed to be both engaging and educational, these worksheets offer children a structured way to explore and express their gratitude. Ideal for teachers, parents, and counselors, this resource supports social-emotional learning and helps children develop a habit of appreciation.

What’s Included:

• Several Gratitude-Themed Worksheets:
  • Daily gratitude prompts
  • Gratitude reflection pages
  • Thankfulness lists
  • Gratitude drawing activities
  • "I am grateful for" prompts
  • Gratitude letters to loved ones

Benefits of Gratitude Journal Worksheets for Kids:

• Promotes Positive Thinking: Encourages children to focus on positive aspects of their lives, fostering a positive mindset.
• Supports Emotional Well-being: Helps children recognize and express their feelings of gratitude, enhancing emotional intelligence.
• Enhances Writing Skills: Provides opportunities for children to practice writing and reflection through structured prompts.
• Encourages Mindfulness: Engages children in mindful activities that help them appreciate the present moment.

Why Choose Our Gratitude Journal Worksheets?

• Engaging and Fun: Creative prompts and activities keep children interested and motivated to participate.
• Versatile Use: Suitable for classroom use, home activities, or as part of counseling sessions.
• Easy to Use: Ready-to-print worksheets that require no additional preparation.
• Educational Value: Supports social-emotional learning and helps develop important life skills.

Incorporate the Gratitude Journal Worksheets for Kids into your daily routine and watch as children develop a deeper sense of appreciation and positivity. Perfect for classroom activities, home learning, or as a part of therapy sessions. Order your set today and start cultivating gratitude in young minds!

IN ADDITION, this resource includes a helpful tip sheet about "Child Development and Play Activities." Through this resource, parents will gain practical insights into how different types of play contribute to their child's overall development. The information sheet provides simple and engaging ideas for fostering cognitive, physical, social, and emotional growth through play. By incorporating these activities, young learners can develop essential skills while enjoying the fun and creativity that play brings to their everyday lives.