Bring cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) concepts to life through creativity with this CBT Guided & Directed Drawing Bundle! These engaging art-based counseling activities help students explore how thoughts, feelings, and actions are connected while practicing flexible thinking, emotional awareness, and more balanced self-talk.

With 10 directed drawings and 90 CBT discussion prompts, students answer questions to reveal each step of a drawing. This interactive approach combines creative expression, reflection, and social-emotional learning, making it a fun, low-prep option for individual counseling, small groups, and classroom SEL lessons.

📦 What's Included:

CBT Guided & Directed Drawing Set 1

• Includes a brontosaurus, cat, and teddy bear, with 27 CBT prompts.

CBT Guided & Directed Drawing Set 2

• Includes a plesiosaurus, goldfish, and sailboat, with CBT discussion prompts exploring thoughts, feelings, and flexible thinking.

CBT Guided & Directed Drawing Set 3

• Includes a robot, dog, and dinosaur hatching from an egg, with CBT reflection prompts.

90 CBT Discussion Prompts

• Nine prompts per drawing help students explore thinking patterns, emotional awareness, coping skills, and the connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions.

Editable Edition

• Customize the prompts or create your own questions to target different counseling goals and classroom topics.

SEL Pre-Teaching Slides

• Introduce growth mindset, perseverance, patience, coping skills, and responding to mistakes.

Bonus Printable Directed Drawing Worksheets

• Offer additional opportunities for independent drawing and reflection.

Bonus Doll CBT Directed Drawing Activity

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🎒 Quick Details: Grades 2–5 | 👥 Individual, small group + classroom | 🖨️ Digital + Print, PDF + Google Slides | 🎯 CBT, flexible thinking + emotional awareness

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🌈 SEL Directed Drawing Growing Bundle

• Includes a growing collection of 60 directed drawings with over 400 prompts>
• Features activities for feelings, empathy, communication, problem-solving, coping skills, and other SEL concepts.
• Includes editable versions and bonus printable resources.
• Offers engaging art-based activities for counseling sessions and classroom SEL lessons throughout the school year

🌈 CBT Activities Growing Bundle

• CBT workbooks and activities for exploring thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
• Interactive counseling games for practicing helpful thinking and coping strategies
• CBT directed drawing activities with discussion prompts
• Activities for identifying and reframing unhelpful thoughts
• Printable worksheets, reflection activities, and visual supports

🎯 Skills Addressed:

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), identifying thoughts, understanding the connections between thoughts and feelings, helpful and unhelpful thinking, balanced self-talk, flexible thinking, emotional identification, self-awareness, self-management, growth mindset, perseverance, coping strategies, patience, and self-confidence.

💡 Ways to Use It:

• Introduce CBT concepts through creative, art-based counseling activities
• Help students explore how thoughts, feelings, and actions are connected
• Practice identifying thoughts and considering more balanced alternatives
• Use directed drawing to encourage participation during individual counseling sessions
• Facilitate small group discussions about thinking patterns and coping skills
• Incorporate the activities into classroom social-emotional learning lessons
• Customize the editable prompts to address specific student needs
• Display digital activities on a smartboard or use screen sharing for virtual sessions
• Provide printable drawing worksheets for independent reflection or additional practice
• Revisit activities throughout the year to reinforce CBT and emotional regulation skills

👩‍🏫 Who It's For:

School counselors, school social workers, school psychologists, mental health counselors, special education teachers, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, and classroom teachers.

Especially useful for professionals who want creative, low-prep activities that combine counseling conversations with drawing and hands-on learning.

🖨️ Format & Download:

Includes digital Google Slides activities and printable PDF resources.

An editable edition allows you to customize prompts and questions. Bonus printable drawing worksheets are also included.

Use the activities individually, with small groups, in classrooms, or during screen-based counseling sessions.

📌 Important Notes:

• CBT activities should encourage students to explore their thoughts with curiosity rather than require positive thinking or dismiss difficult emotions and experiences.

• This is a digital download. No physical product will be shipped. Due to the digital nature of this resource, all sales are final and refunds are not available.