Help students notice, evaluate, and reframe their thoughts with the Catch It, Check It, Change It Football CBT Game. This football-themed cognitive behavioral therapy activity for grades 1–5 builds helpful thinking, emotional regulation, and self-awareness through digital and printable counseling games.

Students practice three steps: Catch It: notice a thought; Check It: consider whether it is helpful or unhelpful; and Change It: explore a more helpful way of thinking. Use the 104 thought cards, board game, worksheets, and visual supports during individual counseling, small groups, classroom SEL lessons, or telehealth sessions.

📦 What's Included:

• Digital Google Slides CBT game for screen sharing or classroom use
• Printable football board game with dice, pawns, and directions
• 104 Printable CBT thought cards to identify helpful and unhelpful thoughts and practice reframing
• 4 No-prep CBT worksheets
• Catch It, Check It, Change It football strategy poster
• Blank football thought cards for students’ own examples
• Sorting mats for helpful and unhelpful thoughts
• Feelings cards for a thought-to-feeling matching game
• Playing a Game poster with visual supports
• S.M.A.R.T. IEP objectives and a data collection sheet for progress monitoring
• Color and black-and-white printable options

🎒 Quick Details: Grades 1–5 | 👥 Individual, small group + classroom | 🏈 104 thought cards | 📝 4 worksheets | 🖨️ PDF + Google Slides | 🎯 CBT, helpful thinking + emotional regulation

🛍️ Bundle & Save:

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• Thoughts, Feelings & Choices: 20-page social story and coloring workbook to introduce connections between thoughts, feelings, and behavior
• This football CBT game: 104 thought cards, worksheets, sorting mats, feelings cards, visual supports, and progress-monitoring tools
• Feelings Flowers & Thought Pots: Match thoughts to feelings, sort helpful and unhelpful thoughts, and practice reframing
• CBT Directed Drawing Sets 1–3: 10 drawings and 90 CBT prompts, with editable prompts to customize sessions

🎯 Skills Addressed:

Identifying thoughts, helpful and unhelpful thinking, cognitive reframing, balanced self-talk, emotional awareness, emotional regulation, coping skills, self-awareness, self-management, and connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions.

💡 Ways to Use It:

• Teach the three-step CBT strategy during individual or small-group counseling
• Use thought cards for sorting, discussion, and repeated reframing practice
• Play the printable board game or present Google Slides during SEL lessons and telehealth
• Match thoughts to feelings and invite students to create personal examples with blank cards
• Reinforce learning with the four worksheets and monitor progress using the IEP objectives and data sheet

👩‍🏫 Who It's For:

School counselors, social workers, psychologists, mental health professionals, occupational therapists, special education teachers, classroom teachers, and parents supporting students in grades 1–5.

📚 More CBT Resources:

Read the Helping Kids Change Unhelpful Thoughts with CBT for examples and teaching tips for the Catch It, Check It, Change It strategy.

🖨️ Format & Download:

• Printable PDF with color and black-and-white options
• Digital Google Slides activity for screen-based instruction

📌 Important Notes:

• Helpful thinking does not mean ignoring difficult feelings or expecting students to think positively all the time. Validate students’ experiences while exploring more balanced, supportive thoughts.
• 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.