Bring structure, creativity, and meaningful conversation to your Lunch Bunch groups with these self-esteem activities for elementary students!

This digital and printable resource combines a self-image directed drawing activity with six no-prep Lunch Bunch placemat worksheets. Students answer self-esteem discussion prompts to reveal the steps for drawing a lily pad, then explore their strengths, self-image, helpful thoughts, and positive affirmations through engaging activities.

Designed for grades 1–5, these activities offer a flexible way to support self-awareness and confidence during small-group counseling, individual sessions, or classroom SEL lessons. With editable drawing prompts, colorful Google Slides activities, and printable worksheets, you can choose the format that works best for your students.

📦 What's Included:

✔️ 6 Printable Self-Esteem Placemats

• No-prep worksheets designed to encourage conversation and reflection while students eat lunch.
• Activities students can complete through drawing, writing, coloring, and discussion.
• Full-color and black-and-white versions

✔️ 1 Lily Pad Directed Drawing Activity

• Answer 6 self-esteem themed SEL prompts to reveal the steps to complete a lily pad drawing.
• Editable version so you can write your own questions or customize the discussion.
• Digital Google Slides format and printable drawing resources.
• SEL pre-teaching slides covering growth mindset, grit, patience, coping skills, and accepting mistakes.

✔️ Self-Esteem Activities Include:

• All About Me self-awareness prompts, sharing prompts and conversation starters, finish-the-sentence activities, true-or-false statements about self-image, identifying helpful and unhelpful thoughts, positive affirmations, spot-the-difference activities, stretch of the day, feelings check-ins, mazes, creative drawing and dot-to-dot activities

✔️ 18 Colorful Google Slides

• Digital versions of the Lunch Bunch activities.
• 6 seek-and-find slides that can be projected on a Smartboard.
• Prompts for facilitating discussions during lunch.

🎒 Quick Details: Grades 1–5 | 🎨 1 lily pad directed drawing | 💬 6 SEL drawing prompts | 🍽️ 6 printable Lunch Bunch placemats | 💻 18 Google Slides | 🔎 6 seek-and-find slides | ✏️ Editable drawing prompts | 🖨️ Digital + print

🛍️ Bundle & Save:

Want a discount? Check out the:

• Lunch Bunch Growing Bundle: with 108 no-prep lunch bunch worksheets, and 306 Google Slides.

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🎯 Skills Addressed:

✔️ Self-esteem and self-image

✔️ Self-awareness and identifying personal strengths

✔️ Confidence and self-worth

✔️ Helpful thinking and positive self-talk

✔️ Recognizing and expressing feelings

✔️ Growth mindset and accepting mistakes

✔️ Conversation skills and group participation

💡 Ways to Use It:

• Use the placemat worksheets during elementary Lunch Bunch groups.
• Facilitate the lily pad directed drawing during individual or small-group counseling.
• Project the seek-and-find slides while waiting for students to arrive.
• Use the editable drawing prompts to target your group's specific goals.
• Incorporate the activities into classroom SEL lessons about self-esteem.
• Laminate the printable placemats for repeated use with dry-erase markers.
• Invite students to draw, write, point, or discuss their responses according to their communication preferences.

👩‍🏫 Who It's For:

Perfect for school counselors, school social workers, school psychologists, elementary teachers, special education teachers, and child therapists working with students in grades 1–5.

These activities are especially useful for Lunch Bunch groups, self-esteem counseling groups, individual counseling, and classroom lessons focused on self-awareness and confidence.

🖨️ Format & Download:

✔️ Printable directed drawing activity.

✔️ Editable directed drawing prompts.

✔️ Six printable Lunch Bunch placemat worksheets in color and black-and-white.

✔️ Digital Google Slides activities, including 18 colorful slides.

✔️ Six digital seek-and-find slides.

✔️ PDF access instructions for the digital resources.

This is a digital download containing both printable and interactive digital activities. No physical materials will be shipped.

📌 Important Notes:

The directed drawing activity combines discussion with drawing. Students can participate by speaking, writing, pointing, or using other communication methods that work for them.

The Lunch Bunch placemats are designed to support facilitated conversations and can be adapted for individual counseling, small groups, and classroom use.

This listing contains the self-esteem set, not the complete Lunch Bunch bundle or the 10-drawing Self-Esteem Directed Drawing Bundle.

Digital products are non-returnable.