Looking for engaging interoception activities, SEL body awareness activities, and body signals and feelings lessons for grades 1–4?

This Interoception Social Story and Board Game provides structured practice, review, and introduction to internal body signals. It helps students build self-awareness and self-regulation by connecting body sensations to feelings and understanding the mind-body connection.

✅ What You Get

This interoception activity set helps you teach body awareness and internal cues and includes:

🧠 Interoception Social Story:

• 21-page social story focused on body signals, body feelings, and self-awareness
• Editable version to personally customize for any child
• Teaches students to recognize internal body cues and emotions
• Foldable booklet version to send home for extended learning

🎲 Interactive Interoception Board Game:

• Game board, dice, spinner, and pawns
• 108 discussion cards targeting body sensations, feelings, and regulation strategies
• Supports linking body sensations to emotions and building the mind-body connection

💬 Visual Supports and Extras:

• Feelings and how to play a game poster to reinforce emotional vocabulary and sportsmanship
• "I can" learning statements poster to support goal setting and student reflection
• Positive notes home to reinforce skills beyond the classroom
• Editable letter to families for easy communication and carryover home

📊 Teacher Supports:

• IEP goals aligned to self-regulation and body awareness
• Data tools to support progress monitoring and skill generalization

💻 Formats Included:

• PDF, PPT, and Google Slides™ versions in a zip file
• Color and black and white options for flexible printing

💸 Growing Bundle Opportunity

This resource is part of an Interoception Growing Bundle focused on body awareness, body mapping emotions, emotional regulation, and interoception activities. Grab it now to save and receive future body signals, self-regulation, and SEL resources as they're added.

Perfect for centers, small groups, 1:1 counseling, or whole class SEL lessons:

• Teaches interoceptive awareness and body check-in skills in a child-friendly way
• Helps students identify body signals and emotions, including hunger, thirst, tiredness, anger, and other feelings
• Supports understanding of where we feel feelings in the body and how my body feels
• Combines a social story, board game, and discussion cards for deeper learning
• Includes 100+ questions and prompts to support self-regulation and emotional awareness
• Digital and printable formats for flexible use in counseling, SEL, special education, and occupational therapy (OT) sessions

🧠 Students Will:

• Develop interoception and interoceptive awareness
• Practice body check-ins and self-monitoring body signals
• Learn to identify body sensations and emotions
• Understand emotions and how my body feels
• Build self-regulation and emotional regulation skills
• Strengthen SEL self-awareness and body awareness
• Improve communication using feelings in the body and body cues

❤️ Why Counselors and Teachers Love It:

• Targets a critical skill: linking body sensations to feelings
• Builds understanding of the mind-body connection for lasting regulation skills
• Combines explicit instruction with hands-on interoception activities
• Easy to differentiate for students with sensory and regulation needs
• Supports IEP goals for self-regulation, body awareness, and emotional identification
• Includes family communication tools and positive reinforcement supports
• Saves time with ready-to-use counseling, SEL, and OT-friendly materials
• Engaging, structured, and designed for real classroom and therapy use

💻 Flexible and Easy to Use:

• Introduce concepts using the interoception social story
• Practice skills with the board game during centers or small groups
• Use discussion cards for follow-up sessions
• Reinforce learning with I Can learning statements and positive notes home
• Share the editable family letter to support carryover at home
• Use the digital version on a smartboard for whole classrooms or on telehealth sessions
• Display visuals to support ongoing emotional awareness and body signal recognition

🎯 Who This Resource Is For:

• Special education teachers and general education teachers
• School counselors, social workers, psychologists
• Mental health professionals
• SLPs and occupational therapists
• Homeschool families

🤍 Perfect for students who:

• Struggle with identifying body signals and emotions
• Need support with self-regulation and emotional regulation
• Have difficulty understanding body sensations and feelings
• Benefit from sensory and OT-based supports
• Are developing SEL, body awareness, and self-monitoring skills

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