Less than $5 Middle School School Counseling Games (by price, low to high)

If you are looking for a fun and interactive way to get your students working together, trying something new, and having a little fun along the way, while also getting them up and moving a bit, then you will love this team building and leadership challenge! Use it as an icebreaker or add a few extra challenges that students will work through and make it a complete lesson! My early elementary and middle school students loved this activity.

The Book of... sometimes ridiculous but also sometimes funny and waaaay better than doing coursework... Icebreakers! This ice break collection can be used for all school aged children and gives a wide variety of options for different classroom personalities and expectations!

An interactive Growth Mindset main activity + more included! Ideas provided for multiple grade levels to maximize your use! This activity puts an overall focus on introducing or better understanding growth mindset and what it sounds like, while also providing opportunity to turn it up a notch and have students come up with their own growth mindset statements and work toward building that skill. Interactive, engaging, and makes an impact! It's a win, win, win for classrooms!! Colored and black and white copies available. Everything you need for a full lesson provided!

"Building" a safe, healthy, and happy learning environment starts with the people that we share it with! In this activity, students take on the opportunity of working effectively with others, thinking creatively, communicating respectfully, and cooperation with others all built into one activity! This is a blast for the whole class - all while focusing on so many important SEL skills. This activity includes minimal preparation yet all the benefits of so many social emotional learning skills to build (pun intended!) My students did not want this activity to end!!

Looking for more interactive activities to do with your class? Check out the links below!

Kindness Activity - The Impact of our Words (Upper Elementary)

Kindness "Hot Potato" - Interactive SEL Lesson (Multiple Grade Levels)

Leadership Activity - "Jumping Ships!" (Upper Elementary)

What better way to learn kindness than by practicing and experiencing it firsthand! Get ready to have a blast with your students - this is a fun one!! This download includes THREE interactive SEL activities to introduce kindness ideas, invite creative thinking, and provide “real-time” practice of the trait! This is such a fun way to get students talking, creating, and engaging... all while being kind to one another! Digital download gives detailed instructions on how to play each version of the activity as well as 15 "pair matches" to be used in the activity (or for other uses in your classroom!)

Looking for other kindness activities for your students? See links below:

Kindness Activity and the Impact of our Words

Kindness Activity - Class "Snowball Fight"

"Think Before You Speak" - Interactive SEL Activity

"So You Think You Know Directions?!" is an absolute hit for my students! Prepare for a fun, engaging, and new favorite classroom activity for all! This activity focuses on multiple social emotional learning topics - attentive listening, awareness, team building, perseverance, respectful communication, and SO much more ALL in ONE activity! This digital download comes with everything you need for your next classroom lesson - detailed instructions, ready-to-print cards, and a guide for the teacher! Your students will all work together to complete one goal - get from person #1 to the last person, without skipping anyone in between! Each card comes with a different task that each student will be asked to complete. The cards must be completed in order, but you are only able to know what is on your card and no one else's and participants aren't able to talk (cue the attentiveness!) Didn't quite get it the first time... or the second... maybe it took a third try? No worries... cue the perseverance and respectful communication! A bonus to increase engagement - many of the cards include a task that is a bit silly (why not throw in fun ways to build confidence into this lesson, too?!) This lesson is truly a favorite for all with so many great SEL topics built in.

Looking for other fun and interactive SEL lessons for you and your students? Check out the links below!

Kindness Activity - The Impact of Our Words (Upper Elementary/Middle School)

Kindness "Hot Potato" (Multiple lessons for multiple grade levels included!)

Creative Perseverance + Facing Challenges (Upper Elementary/Middle School)

The Magical Yet: Growth Mindset Activity (Lower Elementary)

Included in this Google Drive resource, you are given a ready-to-use slide show which holds THREE self-confidence activities that are interactive and fun for several ages and grade levels! These activities will have your students laughing, being creative, and being okay with just being themselves. Reflection questions are included. Other items needed: categories to choose from (ideas related to self-esteem included in the notes section) and a dollar bill for the 3rd included activity. Little prep needed to find success with these SEL lessons and activities! Enjoy.

If you are looking for a fun and interactive way for your students to not only discuss perseverance and what facing challenges looks like, but also practice the skill in a fun and engaging way, then this might be a classroom activity for you! Perseverance is one of those skills that is truly mastered when they are able to practice is "on the spot" and build skills in the moment. This activity provides a safe and comfortable way to do just that, while creating both fun scenarios and more realistic scenarios that they may face in their day to day lives. This activity includes TWO separate classroom lessons (and the foundation of a great writing activity, too!), a list of random items that you could use in your classroom, and two pages of scenario cards. Use real life objects OR print out the clip art pictures included in the digital download. Everything needed for your next engaging classroom lesson - enjoy!!

Looking for other fun, engaging, and interactive lessons? See links below!

Kindness Activity and the Impact of Your Words (Best Seller!)

Kindness Activity - Classroom "Snowball Fight"

Think Before You Speak - Interactive Game

Career Card Game - "What Career?"

Give your students the opportunity to explore many different careers in a fun and interactive way! This "What Career" card game is played similar to the card game "Apples to Apples" and my students LOVED it! It lead to a lot of conversation, sharing of likes and dislikes, and questioning of what specific careers were - it was so refreshing to listen to them talk non-stop about careers during these class periods! Included in the download is everything you need to play the game, including instructions and step by step guide!

Looking for more interactive SEL classroom lessons? Check these out below!

Jumping Ships - Interactive SEL Lesson on Leadership

Kindness Activity - The Impact of our Words

Kindness "Snowball Fight"

Think Before You Speak Game - An Interactive SEL Lesson

This interactive SEL Community Building + Cooperation activity is based on the famous question, "If you were stranded on a desert island..." however, it comes with a small twist! Students will answer get to know you questions that will then turn into their list of items that they can potentially bring on board on their island adventure. The fun part is that they do not know that their answers to the questions are building their lists for the island. Once questions are answered and lists are created, they are put into teams to decide which items must come and which will stay behind! If time allows, the activity also comes with plot twist scenarios that add a little more fun to the mix! This digital download includes everything you need and is ready for your next fun lesson. Bring some paper along for students to utilize and you're all set.

"Hit Me With Your Best Meme" is an activity that is fun for the entire class! This activity provides 80 statements cards to be used to discuss different experiences that students might face throughout their day to day lives as students in a school building. They are relatable yet lighthearted and create great conversation! This is a fun way to get students talking about feelings, facial expressions, and communication and is the perfect way to reach those older middle and high school students, too! Everything you need for the activity is ready for you upon download!

What's included in the purchase? This activity includes 80 statement cards and 100+ memes to be used during the activity. There is some prep needed in cutting out each card used during the activity. The download also includes instructions on 3 different ways that the activity can be used in your classroom!

This interactive SEL classroom lesson provides fun and engagement for the entire class, while reminding them that everyone (including Disney characters!) uses growth mindset and gratitude in their roles - just as we should do! This activity will have students using creative thinking skills, communication, growth mindset, and so much more! My students have loved this activity and ask to do it frequently (See Leadership Lessons from Disney lesson in my store as well!) I use Disney characters as most are familiar with many of the characters and it is fun to see their faces light up when they get it correct. One of the magical moments with this lesson is seeing how easily they connect with the Disney characters when reflecting afterwards. Everything you need for this lesson is ready to go upon download - easily editable and adjustable to best fit your needs or add new characters as well, with 9 ready to use characters + quotes included!

An interactive KINDNESS activity! This was an absolute favorite in our classroom! Our students were beaming afterwards and one even said "Wow, I never thought my classmates would say such nice things about me!" They talked about it for days afterwards and it has been an environment changer!! Included is a PDF Instruction guide - an icebreaker to start, the main activity, and reflection questions to follow. All you will need is paper and writing utensils! Enjoy!!

This "Think Before You Speak" activity puts a focus on taking time to reflect and think before speaking to others. In this interactive activity, students are put into teams, where they are helping one another guess a specific word while also avoiding the guess of another word. Students must focus and carefully select the words in which they are using to be helpful - a social skill that we all utilize daily (even if we do not realize it!) This activity is a great resource to bring this skill to life and take time to reflect and connect - while having a little fun in doing so! Everything you need for this activity is included in the digital download, including reflection discussion questions, so once you purchase, you are ready for your next classroom lesson! *A note is included on materials that may be helpful for the activity, but are not necessary when fully utilizing the activity!*

Introducing the School Counselor - The Game Show is an interactive "game show" like activity where students are able to team up, make choices on categories and point values, answer questions, learn more about the school counseling role - all while having a blast doing so! This digital download purchase provides you with everything you need for a successful classroom lesson, though it may be helpful to bring a whiteboard and dry eraser marker for the "Sketch It" category. A great way to introduce yourself to students or review your role at the start of the school year or throughout. 25 questions provided. Edit: A "back to category slide" feature has been added to easily go back to the slide with all category listings. Enjoy!

If you're ready to add a little flare to your next classroom lesson, this might be the one for you! The Case of Respectfully Problem Solving brings a whole new level to working together, creative thinking and perspective shifting, as well as small group problem solving, listening, and working together! It is a whole lot of social-emotional learning in one fun activity! This digit download includes 12 pages with everything you need and specific instructions on just how to use it! There are a whole lot of teachable and "ah-ha" moments packed into one activity.

Make it even more fun and package their materials in a "Top Secret" Folder! My students loved being able to work together on this activity, but also enjoyed the individual creative thinking that came with it. It was a blast for all! If you are looking to reduce your paper usage, this is a great activity where you could print and laminate some of the activity sheets to use at a later time as well - only printing what you need to re-use (the sheets that students will write on!) Easy prep - lots of fun - many skills practiced!

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!!

A full MONTH of communication activities ready to go! Do your students love interactive and hands-on learning experiences that are also engaging and fun? This digital download provides FOUR ready to use lessons that focus on communication and working respectfully with others, while also working through challenges, with a hint of perseverance all wrapped into four consecutive lessons! The lessons provided can be used as solo activities or for consecutive weeks, as they build off of one another nicely and provide a continuation of both review of the previous activity while also creating more of a challenge with each "level up" to continue skill building. My students LOVED each of these activities and I was able to adjust and use my creativity to use this with multiple grade levels! We had a blast and were able to practice our communication skills in fun and interactive ways. Instructions included on each slide for all four activities. Enjoy!!

An interactive KINDNESS activity! This was an absolute favorite in our classroom! Our students were beaming afterwards and one even said "Wow, I never thought my classmates would say such nice things about me!" They talked about it for days afterwards and it has been an environment changer!! Included is a Google Slides presentation to present to the class with instructions included - an icebreaker to start, the activity, and reflection questions to follow. All you will need is paper and writing utensils! Enjoy!!

Interested in the PDF version instead? Find the resource HERE!

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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Get the 30-Second Speech Bundle HERE!

✨Public Speaking Bundle✨

✨AVID Bundle✨

✨AVID Team Building Bundle✨

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

*Note this product may be used in brick and mortar classes as well as virtual systems like Outschool