Make exploring feelings fun and hands-on with these Easter & Spring Feelings Play Dough and Drawing Mats! This engaging social-emotional learning activity helps elementary students identify emotions, explore facial expressions, and build emotional vocabulary through creative play with spring-themed bunnies, chicks, carrots, and eggs.

Students can use play dough to create facial expressions or draw directly on the mats to show how different characters might be feeling. With 45 feelings mats, 40 scenario cards, and feelings discussion dice, this resource offers playful opportunities to explore emotions, consider different perspectives, and practice recognizing emotional expressions.

Whether you're working with students who have difficulty putting their feelings into words, planning a spring counseling activity, or looking for hands-on SEL activities for your classroom, these printable mats offer flexible ways for students to communicate and explore emotions through drawing, sensory play, and conversation.

📦 What's Included:

🐰 45 Easter & Spring Feelings Play Dough and Drawing Mats

• 45 different printable feelings mats featuring bunnies, chicks, carrots, and eggs.
• Students can use play dough to create facial expressions or draw emotions onto the mats.
• Encourages students to explore how different emotions might be represented through facial features.
• Great for hands-on emotional identification activities, counseling sessions, and classroom SEL centers.
• Includes full-color and black-and-white versions.

💬 40 Feelings Scenario Cards

• 40 printable scenarios for exploring emotions in different situations.
• Encourage students to consider how a character might feel in response to an experience.
• Pair the scenarios with the drawing or dough mats to create different facial expressions.
• Support discussions about emotional identification, self-awareness, and social awareness.
• Great for individual counseling, small groups, and classroom SEL lessons.

🎲 Feelings Discussion Dice

• Printable dice featuring feelings prompts to extend conversations.
• Add an interactive element to emotional identification activities.
• Encourage students to explore emotions while using the drawing and dough mats.
• Great for counseling games, small group discussions, and SEL centers.

😊 12 Feelings Explored

Students can practice recognizing, naming, and representing these 12 emotions:

• Annoyed
• Angry
• Confused
• Embarrassed
• Excited
• Happy
• Proud
• Sad
• Scared
• Silly
• Shocked
• Worried

🎨 Full-Color & Black-and-White Versions

• Full-color printable mats for ready-to-use activities.
• Black-and-white versions for coloring and drawing.
• Flexible options for classroom printing and individual student use.
• Can be used with play dough, drawing materials, or other appropriate art supplies.

🎒 Quick Details: 45 Feelings Mats | Bunny + Chick + Carrot + Egg Designs | 40 Scenario Cards | 12 Emotions | Feelings Discussion Dice | Play Dough + Drawing Activities | Full Color + Black & White | Printable Digital Download | Easter & Spring SEL

🛍️ Bundle & Save:

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🐣 Easter & Spring Counseling and SEL Bundle

• 8 Easter and spring-themed counseling and SEL resources.
• 60 feelings matching puzzles.
• 30 spring social skills scenarios.
• 6 positive affirmation and feelings mazes.
• Easter creative movement game and 30 additional yoga stretching prompts.
• 18 differentiated feelings color-by-code pages with 59 discussion prompts.

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🎯 Skills Addressed:

✔️ Feelings Identification: Practice recognizing and naming a variety of emotions.

✔️ Emotional Vocabulary: Expand the words students use to describe different feelings.

✔️ Self-Awareness: Explore personal emotions and how feelings may show up in different situations.

✔️ Social Awareness: Consider how another person might feel based on the situation and available emotional cues.

✔️ Facial Expression Recognition: Explore how facial features may communicate different emotions.

✔️ Perspective-Taking: Discuss how people might experience different feelings in response to the same situation.

✔️ Emotional Expression: Use drawing, play dough, and creative activities to communicate feelings.

✔️ Fine Motor Skills: Practice shaping, rolling, and manipulating dough or using drawing materials.

✔️ Creative Expression: Encourage students to represent emotions through art and imaginative play.

✔️ Communication Skills: Practice sharing ideas, discussing emotions, and responding to feelings prompts.

💡 Ways to Use It:

• Individual Counseling: Help students explore feelings through drawing or play dough without relying entirely on verbal responses.
• Small Group Counseling: Use the scenario cards and feelings mats to discuss emotions and different perspectives.
• Classroom SEL Lessons: Teach feelings identification and emotional vocabulary through hands-on spring activities.
• Easter Counseling Activities: Incorporate bunny, chick, carrot, and egg mats into seasonal counseling sessions.
• Spring SEL Centers: Set up a feelings station with laminated mats, play dough, and scenario cards.
• Play-Based Counseling: Use the mats to encourage emotional expression and conversation during creative play.
• Feelings Identification Lessons: Explore the 12 emotions and discuss how they may appear in different situations.
• Perspective-Taking Activities: Read a scenario and invite students to create facial expressions representing how a character might feel.
• Occupational Therapy: Incorporate dough manipulation and drawing into appropriately adapted fine motor activities.
• Speech & Language Sessions: Use the scenarios and visual expressions to support emotion vocabulary and communication.
• Morning Meetings: Choose a feelings prompt and invite students to draw or create an expression.
• Calm Corners & Regulation Spaces: Offer drawing or dough mats as optional tools for creative emotional expression.

👩‍🏫 Who It's For:

These Easter and spring feelings play dough and drawing mats are designed for elementary students and can be used by:

• School counselors, school social workers, and school psychologists
• Classroom teachers and special educators
• Speech-language pathologists and occupational therapists
• Child therapists and play-based counseling providers
• Homeschooling families and caregivers

The combination of drawing, play dough, visual supports, and discussion prompts offers multiple ways for students to participate.

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🖨️ Format & Download:

✔️ 45 printable Easter and spring feelings mats

✔️ Bunny, chick, carrot, and egg designs

✔️ 40 printable feelings scenario cards

✔️ Printable feelings discussion dice

✔️ Activities exploring 12 different emotions

✔️ Full-color and black-and-white versions

✔️ Designed for use with play dough or drawing materials

✔️ Suitable for individual counseling, small groups, classroom SEL lessons, and hands-on learning centers

📌 Important Notes:

• This is a printable resource designed for drawing and play dough activities. Play dough, markers, crayons, laminating supplies, and other physical materials are not included.
• For repeated use with play dough or dry-erase markers, consider laminating the mats or placing them in reusable dry-erase sleeves.
• Students can use the same mat to represent different feelings, and there is no single correct way to draw or create an emotion.
• Some designs feature Easter imagery. Consider students' cultural and religious backgrounds when selecting seasonal activities.
• 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.