Help elementary students practice perspective taking, social awareness, empathy, and understanding different points of view with this engaging Perspective Taking Social Skills Game | Social Skills Treasury Set 1!

This digital and printable social emotional learning (SEL) resource combines an interactive board game with 100 situation and nonverbal communication cards to help children explore how people can experience the same situation differently.

Students practice considering what another person might know, think, feel, or believe through relatable scenarios and guided discussions. They also explore facial expressions and body language as possible clues to emotions, while learning that we cannot always know how someone feels just by looking at them.

Perfect for elementary school counseling, social skills groups, speech therapy, special education, and classroom SEL lessons, these activities make perspective taking more concrete through games, discussion, and reflection.

📦 What's Included:

✔️ Interactive Perspective Taking Board Game

• Digital and printable board game for practicing perspective taking through play.

• Includes a game board, spinner, pawns, and dice.

• Encourages students to discuss different viewpoints while participating in an engaging social skills activity.

✔️ 36 Perspective Taking Situation Cards

• Digital and printable cards featuring social situations for exploring different perspectives.

• Encourage children to consider how another person might interpret or experience a situation.

• Use during the board game, individual counseling, or group discussions.

✔️ 36 Perspective Taking Situation Example Cards

• Additional digital and printable cards that provide examples for discussing different viewpoints.

• Help students compare perspectives and explore alternative interpretations.

• Pair with the situation cards for guided practice.

✔️ 28 Nonverbal Communication Cards

• Digital and printable cards for discussing facial expressions, body language, and other nonverbal communication cues.

• Help students consider possible interpretations while recognizing that nonverbal communication varies between people.

• Encourage curiosity and respectful communication rather than assumptions.

✔️ Feelings Poster

• A visual resource for supporting emotional vocabulary and discussions about feelings.

• Use alongside the scenario and nonverbal communication cards.

✔️ "I Can" Learning Statements Poster

• A visual reminder of the perspective taking concepts students are practicing.

• Display during counseling sessions, social skills groups, or classroom lessons.

✔️ Playing a Game Visual Poster

• A visual support for discussing participation in games and group activities.

✔️ SMART IEP and Treatment Plan Objectives

• Objectives to support individualized perspective taking and social skills goals.

• Useful for school counseling, social work, special education, and related services.

✔️ Data Collection Sheet

• A resource for documenting student progress and monitoring identified goals.

✔️ Editable Letter to Families

• A customizable family letter about perspective taking skills.

• Share information about the concepts students are practicing.

✔️ Suggested Companion Resources

• Recommendations for extending perspective taking instruction with additional activities.

✔️ Ideas to Extend and Practice Perspective Taking

• Suggestions for reinforcing the concepts during everyday interactions and learning opportunities.

✔️ Digital, Printable, Color and Black-and-White Options

• Flexible formats for different teaching and counseling settings.

🎒 Quick Details: Elementary students | 👥 Individual counseling, small groups + classroom SEL | 🖨️ Digital + printable, color + black-and-white | 🎯 Perspective taking, empathy, social awareness, nonverbal communication + problem-solving

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✔️ This resource is included in the Perspective Taking Social Skills Treasury Bundle, which combines all three Social Skills Treasury perspective taking sets at a discount!

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🎯 Skills Addressed:

✔️ Understanding perspective taking

✔️ Recognizing different thoughts, feelings, and beliefs

✔️ Exploring theory of mind concepts

✔️ Developing cognitive empathy

✔️ Building social awareness

✔️ Considering different points of view

✔️ Recognizing multiple interpretations of a situation

✔️ Exploring facial expressions and body language

✔️ Understanding differences in nonverbal communication

✔️ Practicing flexible thinking

✔️ Developing social problem-solving skills

✔️ Building respectful communication skills

✔️ Asking questions instead of making assumptions

✔️ Understanding different experiences and preferences

✔️ Participating in social skills games and discussions

✔️ Developing relationship skills

💡 Ways to Use It:

• Introduce perspective taking during individual counseling
• Play the board game during elementary social skills groups
• Use the 36 situation cards for guided discussions
• Compare different perspectives with the 36 situation example cards
• Explore nonverbal communication using the 28 cards
• Discuss how the same situation can feel different to different people
• Practice considering multiple possible interpretations
• Explore why someone might have information another person does not
• Discuss how misunderstandings can happen between friends
• Practice asking clarifying questions instead of guessing someone's intentions
• Use the feelings poster to support emotional vocabulary
• Incorporate the digital cards into classroom SEL lessons
• Use the game as part of a friendship or social communication group
• Pair the activities with picture books about different perspectives
• Use the SMART objectives to support individualized goals
• Document student progress with the data collection sheet
• Share the editable family letter with caregivers
• Combine Sets 1, 2, and 3 for additional practice

👩‍🏫 Who It's For:

School Counselors and School Social Workers: Teach perspective taking, empathy, and social awareness during individual counseling, small groups, and classroom SEL lessons.

Child Therapists and Psychologists: Explore different perspectives, social problem-solving, and communication through interactive scenarios and games.

Special Education Teachers: Provide structured and adaptable opportunities to explore different points of view and social interactions.

Classroom Teachers: Incorporate perspective taking games into classroom SEL instruction, morning meetings, and community-building activities.

Speech-Language Pathologists: Use situation cards, nonverbal communication activities, and guided discussions to support pragmatic language and social communication.

Occupational Therapists: Incorporate the games when exploring social participation, flexible thinking, and collaborative problem-solving.

Homeschool Educators and Families: Encourage conversations about different perspectives and understanding others through engaging games.

🖨️ Format & Download:

This resource includes digital and printable perspective taking activities, including:

✔️ Interactive board game with spinner, pawns, and dice

✔️ 36 situation cards

✔️ 36 situation example cards

✔️ 28 nonverbal communication cards

✔️ Feelings poster

✔️ "I Can" learning statements poster

✔️ Playing a Game visual poster

✔️ SMART IEP and treatment plan objectives

✔️ Data collection sheet

✔️ Editable family letter

✔️ Companion resource suggestions and extension activities

✔️ Color and black-and-white options

Use the printable materials for hands-on counseling sessions and the digital activities for interactive instruction or screen sharing.

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

📌 Important Notes:

Perspective taking is not about guessing someone's thoughts or feelings correctly. The goal is to help students recognize that people can have different experiences, consider multiple possibilities, and communicate with curiosity.

Facial expressions, body language, eye contact, and other nonverbal communication cues can vary across individuals, cultures, and situations. Children should not be expected to interpret every cue in the same way.

Understanding another person's perspective does not mean agreeing with them, ignoring personal boundaries, or putting someone else's needs ahead of their own.

Students may participate through speaking, writing, pointing, selecting responses, or other preferred communication methods.

This resource is Set 1 of the Social Skills Treasury Perspective Taking series and can be used independently or alongside Sets 2 and 3.

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