Make Christmas counseling and social-emotional learning fun with this discounted bundle of 8 festive SEL activities! This collection combines feelings games, puzzles, positive affirmation mazes, color-by-code worksheets, play dough mats, and two movement activities to help young children practice identifying emotions, building self-awareness, and exploring social skills.

Designed for kindergarten through second grade, these Christmas counseling activities offer engaging ways to teach social-emotional skills through play, creativity, movement, and discussion. Use them for individual counseling, small groups, classroom SEL lessons, learning centers, or seasonal brain breaks.

📦 What's Included:

✔️ Christmas Expected vs. Unexpected Behavior Game (Digital + Print)

• A digital social skills game with bonus printable cards featuring 30 scenarios. Students sort and discuss different social expectations, consider context, and explore choices.

✔️ Christmas Positive Affirmations & Feelings Mazes

• Includes 6 SEL mazes, 19 discussion scenario cards, feelings dice, bonus matching puzzles, and worksheets to support emotional identification and self-esteem.

✔️ Christmas Would You Rather Yoga Brain Break Game (Digital + Print)

• Features 30 Christmas-themed This or That stretching prompts to encourage movement, body awareness, and student choice.

✔️ Christmas Feelings Play Dough & Drawing Emotions Mats

• Includes 44 feelings mats featuring Santa, an elf, a reindeer, and a gingerbread character, plus 40 scenario cards and feelings discussion dice.

✔️ Christmas Feelings Matching Puzzles

• Includes 30 three-piece puzzles and 30 two-piece puzzles featuring Santa, reindeer, and elves, plus bonus SEL worksheets for practicing emotion recognition.

✔️ Christmas Mittens Color by Code Feelings Activity (Digital + Print)

• Includes 6 differentiated coloring pages and 14 feelings prompts for emotional identification, discussion, and reflection.

✔️ Christmas Creative Movement & Yoga Game (Digital + Print)

• Includes 20 creative movement cards plus a Would You Rather yoga game to provide additional movement choices and brain breaks.

✔️ Snowglobe Color by Code Feelings Activity (Digital + Print)

• Includes 6 differentiated coloring pages and 16 feelings prompts for discussing emotions and practicing self-awareness.

🎒 Quick Details: Grades K–2 | 👥 Individual, small group + classroom | 🖨️ Digital + Print, formats vary | 🎯 Feelings identification, social skills + self-awareness

🛍️ Bundle & Save:

Save money by purchasing all 8 Christmas counseling and social-emotional learning activities together at a discount instead of buying each resource individually!

With games, puzzles, coloring activities, sensory play, and two movement resources, this collection gives you a variety of engaging ways to reinforce SEL skills throughout the Christmas season.

🎯 Skills Addressed:

Feelings identification, emotional awareness, self-awareness, emotional regulation, self-esteem, positive affirmations, supportive self-talk, social awareness, understanding social expectations, perspective-taking, responsible decision-making, body awareness, and coping skills.

💡 Ways to Use It:

• Plan Christmas-themed individual counseling sessions for grades K–2
• Create festive small group counseling activities
• Practice naming emotions with matching puzzles and feelings mats
• Use play dough or drawing to help students express emotions without relying only on words
• Explore positive affirmations and self-esteem through SEL mazes
• Discuss social expectations and different perspectives with the Christmas Tree Hunt game
• Use the two movement and yoga games for classroom brain breaks
• Practice feelings identification with differentiated color-by-code worksheets
• Set up hands-on Christmas SEL learning centers
• Offer activity choices based on students' interests, sensory preferences, and support needs
• Reinforce social-emotional skills before winter break

👩‍🏫 Who It's For:

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

Especially helpful for professionals supporting kindergarten, first-grade, and second-grade students who want low-prep, hands-on Christmas SEL activities for counseling sessions and classroom lessons.

🖨️ Format & Download:

Includes digital and printable Christmas SEL activities. Individual resources feature a combination of printable worksheets, cards, mats, puzzles, and interactive digital games.

Use the printable activities for hands-on learning or the digital versions for smartboards, screen-based counseling, and classroom instruction. Formats vary by individual resource.

This is a digital download. No physical materials will be shipped.

📌 Important Notes:

Not all students celebrate Christmas. Consider students' cultural and religious traditions and offer non-holiday winter alternatives when appropriate.

Adapt activities to students' developmental levels, communication preferences, sensory needs, and individual experiences. Social expectations should be discussed with attention to context and individual differences rather than as rigid rules.

This is a digital download. No refunds on digital purchases.