Explore engaging fall counseling and social-emotional learning activities for Autumn, Halloween, and Thanksgiving!

Celebrate summer as a chance for families to grow together. This post highlights fun, meaningful activities—storytelling nights, pen‑pal projects, nature walks, community service, and more—that strengthen communication, empathy, emotional regulation, and connection. These shared experiences make SEL feel simple, joyful, and part of everyday summer life.

Celebrate spring’s energy with Easter-themed SEL and counseling ideas. From feelings egg hunts and gratitude flower crafts to mindful bunny breathing and collaborative kindness baskets, these activities bring seasonal joy and emotional exploration to classrooms or therapy sessions, helping kids practice empathy, focus, gratitude, and self-awareness in creative ways.

This post shares Valentine’s Day social emotional learning activities centered on self compassion and kindness. You’ll find ideas for affirmations, kind note exchanges, emotion collage art, partner reflections and guided sharing prompts. Each activity supports emotion naming, empathy and emotional connection. These tools help students and children boost self worth and spread kindness in their community.

This post provides resources and activities to celebrate National School Counseling Week. You’ll find ideas for classroom lessons, appreciation events, gratitude activities, school wide challenges, and staff recognition. It includes printables, scripts, and customizable prompts. These tools help raise awareness, build community, and honor the impact school counselors have on students and staff.

This post shares winter social emotional learning activities for counseling and classrooms. You will find hands on ideas like winter themed emotion yoga felt story prompts gratitude crafts sharing rounds and check ins tied to seasonal themes. Each activity promotes empathy, self regulation, relationship building and coping skills. These tools help students stay engaged, grounded and resilient through winter months.

This post shares sensory bin and dough activities themed for fall, Halloween, and Thanksgiving that help children explore emotions. You’ll find ideas like filling bins with autumn textures, dough stations with feeling labels, pumpkin sensory tubs, and gratitude dough prompts. Each activity encourages emotion naming, sensory exploration, curiosity, and calm while connecting seasonal themes with emotional learning.

This post lists top Amazon Prime Day deals for educators and school counselors focusing on social emotional learning tools. You’ll find discounted workbooks, books, kits, tumblers and classroom supplies that support SEL teaching. The post offers suggestions for items that promote emotion literacy, resilience building, self regulation skills and kindness in the school setting.

Discover beloved picture books like Thank You, Omu! and Llama Llama Gives Thanks, paired with five practical tips to help kids cultivate thankfulness. From gratitude journals and kind notes to family projects and modeling behaviors, these ideas invite children to notice and express appreciation in meaningful, interactive ways.

Use engaging gratitude activities to help children notice, feel, and express thankfulness, such as gratitude jars, thank-you cards, gratitude trees, and acts of kindness. These practices help deepen appreciation, build empathy, boost emotional well-being, and foster connection in classrooms or at home.

Spark creativity and connection with DIY holiday gifts for educators and counselors , like handmade gratitude jars, custom affirmation cards, and self-care kits , paired with thoughtful SEL toys. These ideas honor meaningful teaching and counseling work, support emotional wellness, and bring joy to colleagues and students alike.