35 Top Social Emotional Learning Activities for Counselors and Teachers
Find the SEL activities best for your students, groups, and classrooms.
Mentor, parental figure, friend, organizer, volunteer, therapist ... what are teachers not expected to be!? No one can do it all, and especially not alone. Learning social emotional skills is an important part of growing up, but teaching it within a sea of other subjects and duties can be overwhelming.
Fortunately, there are many fun social and emotional learning activities that can help. These tools aren't just like any other game that encourages cooperation--they have social emotional skills lessons built right in. Here are some SEL games and other activities to check out. Most of these are in PDF format so you can download them anytime.
SEL Activity Highlights
FEELOPOLY for Zoom & Large Classrooms
1. FEELOPOLY
FEELOPOLY is a popular cooperative game among kids and therapists, and works great for one-on-one and small group setting. It's focused on naming feelings, discussing emotions, and learning to show empathy for yourself and others.
It covers self-awareness, social awareness, and other areas recommended by CASEL. Activities in the game include:
Labeling emotions
Recognizing feelings in the body (ie, feeling shaky when you're nervous)
Validating and accepting emotions in yourself and others