Build emotional awareness, helpful thinking, and problem-solving skills through shared play with the CBT Skills for Big Feelings Game Bundle. These seven digital and printable counseling games reinforce cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) concepts during individual counseling, small groups, and classroom social-emotional learning lessons.

Created as companions to Skills for Big Feelings: A Guide for Teaching Kids Relaxation, Regulation, and Coping Techniques by Casey O’Brien Martin, the games cover naming feelings, identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts, measuring challenges, matching responses, accepting mistakes, and gratitude.

This is a growing bundle. Purchase at the current price to receive future games added to this bundle at no extra cost. The price increases as new resources are added.

📦 What's Included:

• Naming Feelings Film Game
  Session 1: Name feelings with 32 digital scenarios and 28 printable cards
• Jolly Jellybean Helpful Thought Hunt
  Session 3: Identify helpful and unhelpful thoughts with 30 printable thought cards and a self-checking digital game
• Butterfly Thought Changer
  Session 4: Practice changing unhelpful thoughts with 30 open-ended and 30 multiple-choice cards, plus digital versions
• Argh You Ready to Measure Challenges? Pirate Game
  Session 5: Measure challenges on a 4-point scale with 31 digital scenarios, 31 printable cards, and a color or black-and-white poster
• Bella Bird’s Equal Measurements Game
  Session 6: Match responses to challenges with 30 scenarios, printable cards, posters, pocket-sized visuals, and a reaction meter/scale craft
• Donut Worry About Making Mistakes
  Session 10: Practice helpful self-talk about mistakes with 30 printable cards, a board game, and a digital Google Slides activity
• Gumball Gratitude
  Session 11: Practice grateful thinking with 60 printable cards, a board game, sorting mats, worksheets, and 30 digital scenarios

Planned additions, not currently included:

• In the Driver’s Seat: What Can You Control?
• Mission F-B-T-S Space Race

🎒 Quick Details: Kids ages 6-12 | 👥 Individual, small group + classroom | 🖨️ Digital + printable games | 🎯 CBT, emotional regulation + coping skills

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Skills for Big Feelings Super Ultimate Growing Bundle includes:

• 184-Page curriculum, available with the paperback or eBook, plus a 221-page eBook with 40 coping skills crafts
• 12 Interactive workbooks with 150 Google Slides pages, 16 guided relaxation MP3s, and videos demonstrating 30+ coping skills
• Digital and printable CBT games, 70 unique Bingo cards, coping cards, dice, spinner wheels, mazes, and fortune tellers
• Posters, family handouts, editable documents, and future bundle additions at no extra cost

🎯 Skills Addressed:

Feelings identification, self-awareness, helpful and unhelpful thinking, cognitive reframing, flexible thinking, problem-solving, measuring challenges, matching responses, emotional regulation, coping strategies, responding to mistakes, and gratitude.

💡 Ways to Use It:

Reinforce Skills for Big Feelings sessions with these corresponding companion games, or choose activities that fit the skills you are teaching.

Play together with printable cards and games during individual or small-group counseling. Pause to discuss children’s responses and practice supportive ways to handle challenges.

Screen share the digital games during telehealth or project them for classroom SEL lessons.

👩‍🏫 Who It's For:

Counselors, social workers, psychologists, speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, teachers, and parents teaching children self-awareness, emotional identification, self-regulation, and coping skills.

Especially helpful for professionals using Skills for Big Feelings who want games to reinforce the curriculum.

🖨️ Format & Download:

Includes seven game resources with digital activities and printable PDF materials. Individual resources include Google Slides games, scenario cards, and additional printables. Please ensure you can open PDF files and access Google Slides before purchasing.

📚 More CBT Resources:

Read about helping children change unhelpful thoughts with CBT for examples of noticing, checking, and reframing thoughts while validating feelings.

📌 Important Notes:

• These are companion games for Skills for Big Feelings. The book is not included in this game bundle.
• Future additions are separate from the seven games currently included. Existing purchasers receive games added to this bundle at no extra cost.
• Support children in exploring thoughts and coping options without requiring positive thinking or minimizing their experiences. Adapt discussions to each child’s needs.
• 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.