Help children explore and express their feelings with these Fall and Autumn Feelings Play Dough and Drawing Mats! This hands-on social emotional learning activity combines creative play, emotion identification, and meaningful conversations using four fun autumn designs: acorns, leaves, footballs, and sunflowers.

Students can use play dough to create facial expressions or draw directly on the mats to show how a character might be feeling. With 43 feelings mats, 36 scenario cards, and feelings flashcards covering nine emotions, there are plenty of opportunities to practice recognizing, naming, and talking about feelings.

Perfect for kindergarten through second grade, these sensory-friendly activities are easy to incorporate into individual counseling, small-group counseling, classroom SEL centers, and fall-themed lessons. Children can explore feelings through drawing, sculpting, pointing, and conversation.

📦 What's Included:

✔️ 43 Fall-Themed Feelings Mats

• Four autumn designs: acorn, leaf, football, and sunflower.
• Blank faces for students to draw or sculpt different emotional expressions.
• Full-color and black-and-white options for flexible printing and use.

✔️ 36 Feelings Scenario Cards

• Situations to help children consider how someone might feel.
• Prompts for practicing feelings vocabulary and discussing different emotional responses.
• Opportunities to explore how two people might feel differently in the same situation.

✔️ Feelings Flashcards

• Flashcards featuring nine different emotions (annoyed, angry, excited, happy, proud, sad, scared, surprised, and worried)
• Autumn-themed characters representing acorns, leaves, footballs, and sunflowers.
• Visual supports for matching, naming, and discussing feelings.

✔️ Feelings Discussion Dice

• Dice with feelings prompts to extend conversations.
• An interactive way to encourage students to share ideas and explore emotional experiences.

✔️ Drawing & Play Dough Options

• Use play dough to sculpt facial expressions.
• Laminate the mats and use dry-erase markers for repeated practice.
• Use the black-and-white versions as printable drawing activities.

🎒 Quick Details: Grades K–2 | 👥 Individual counseling, small groups + classroom SEL | 🍂 43 feelings mats | 💬 36 scenario cards | 😊 9 emotions | 🎨 Drawing + play dough activities

🛍️ Bundle & Save:

Want to save on these autumn feelings mats? Check out:

🍂 Fall Counseling + Social-Emotional Learning Bundle

• Includes seven fall-themed counseling and SEL resources.
• Features feelings puzzles, play dough and drawing mats, feelings mazes, Color by Code, directed drawing, a yoga game, and an expected vs. unexpected behavior game.
• Explores emotional awareness, coping skills, social skills, and self-regulation through a variety of creative activities.

😊 Feelings Play Dough + Drawing Mats Growing Bundle

• Includes 10 seasonal and holiday-themed feelings mat sets.
• Each set contains more than 35 feelings mats and at least 40 scenario cards.
• Provides hands-on opportunities to explore emotions throughout the school year with different seasonal characters and activities.

🎯 Skills Addressed:

✔️ Identifying and naming emotions

✔️ Expanding feelings vocabulary

✔️ Recognizing facial expressions

✔️ Exploring different emotional perspectives

✔️ Expressing feelings through art and play

✔️ Developing emotional awareness

✔️ Communicating about feelings and experiences

💡 Ways to Use It:

✔️ Use the mats as a hands-on feelings check-in during individual counseling.

✔️ Invite students to sculpt or draw facial expressions in response to the scenario cards.

✔️ Add the mats to a fall-themed classroom SEL center.

✔️ Use the feelings flashcards for emotion identification and matching activities.

✔️ Roll the feelings dice to encourage conversations during small-group counseling.

✔️ Laminate the mats for reusable play dough or dry-erase activities.

✔️ Offer drawing, sculpting, pointing, or verbal responses based on student preferences.

👩‍🏫 Who It's For:

Perfect for school counselors, school social workers, school psychologists, special education teachers, speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, child therapists, and elementary classroom educators working with children in kindergarten through second grade.

These activities are especially useful for students who benefit from hands-on, visual, and play-based opportunities to explore emotions without relying entirely on verbal communication.

🖨️ Format & Download:

✔️ Printable feelings mats with four autumn-themed designs.

✔️ Full-color and black-and-white versions.

✔️ Printable scenario cards, feelings flashcards, and discussion dice.

✔️ Flexible activities for drawing, play dough, and reusable dry-erase practice.

Print the materials and use them as drawing pages, or laminate the mats for repeated use with play dough and dry-erase markers.

This is a digital download of printable resources. Play dough, markers, and other physical supplies are not included. No physical product will be shipped.

📌 Important Notes:

Children experience and express emotions in different ways. Encourage students to explore multiple possible feelings and expressions rather than teaching that every emotion has one correct facial expression.

Students can participate by drawing, sculpting, pointing, describing, or using their preferred communication methods.

Digital product only. No physical materials will be shipped.