Help students explore feelings in a creative, hands-on way with these Spring Feelings Play Dough and Drawing Mats! These engaging social-emotional learning activities invite children to draw or sculpt facial expressions on adorable spring characters while practicing emotional identification and self-awareness.

Featuring bees, butterflies, clouds, and tulips, this resource combines 48 feelings mats, 40 scenario cards, and feelings prompt dice to encourage meaningful conversations about emotions. Students can experiment with facial expressions, explore how different situations might make someone feel, and practice recognizing emotions in themselves and others.

Perfect for individual counseling, small-group counseling, classroom SEL centers, and spring activities, these printable mats offer a playful alternative to traditional feelings worksheets. Students can participate through drawing, play dough, discussion, or a combination of approaches that works for them.

📦 What's Included:

🐝 48 Spring Feelings Play Dough & Drawing Mats

• 48 different feelings mats featuring four spring designs.
• Bee, butterfly, cloud, and tulip characters.
• Blank faces for students to draw or sculpt different emotional expressions.
• Opportunities to explore facial features and how they communicate feelings.
• Activities that can be used with play dough, drawing materials, or other creative tools.

💬 40 Feelings Scenario Cards

• 40 scenario cards to encourage conversations about emotions.
• Situations students can use to explore how someone might feel.
• Opportunities to discuss different emotional responses.
• Can be paired with the drawing and dough mats for additional practice.

🎲 Feelings Prompt Dice

• Printable dice with feelings prompts.
• An interactive way to extend conversations about emotions.
• Can be used with the mats and scenario cards.
• Encourages students to explore feelings through play and discussion.

❤️ 10 Feelings Covered

• Annoyed, angry, excited, happy, proud, sad, scared,surprised, tired, and worried

🖨️ Color & Black-and-White Versions

• Full-color versions for engaging visual activities.
• Black-and-white versions for flexible printing.
• Options for individual sessions, small groups, and classroom activities.

🎒 Quick Details: Elementary students | 🌷 4 spring character designs | 🎨 48 feelings mats | 💬 40 scenario cards | 🎲 Feelings prompt dice | ❤️ 10 emotions | 🖨️ Color + B&W | Printable resource

🛍️ Bundle & Save:

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🌈 Feelings Play Dough & Drawing Mats Bundle

• Includes 10 sets of seasonal and themed feelings dough and drawing mats.
• Features more than 35 feelings mats in each set.
• Includes 40 or more scenario cards in each set.
• Provides a variety of characters and themes for practicing emotional identification throughout the year.

🌸 Spring Counseling + Social Emotional Learning Bundle

• Includes seven spring-themed counseling and SEL resources.
• Features feelings dough and drawing mats, puzzles, games, yoga, mazes, and Color by Code activities.
• Offers multiple ways to practice emotional awareness, coping skills, problem-solving, and social skills.

🎯 Skills Addressed:

✔️ Identifying and naming emotions

✔️ Recognizing facial expressions and emotional cues

✔️ Building self-awareness and emotional vocabulary

✔️ Exploring how different situations might make someone feel

✔️ Developing social awareness and perspective-taking

✔️ Expressing emotions through creative activities

✔️ Practicing communication and feelings-related discussions

💡 Ways to Use It:

• Invite students to draw different facial expressions on the bee, butterfly, cloud, or tulip mats during individual counseling sessions.
• Offer play dough as a hands-on alternative to drawing for students who enjoy tactile activities.
• Pair the 40 scenario cards with the mats to explore how someone might feel in different situations.
• Roll the feelings prompt dice to introduce emotions or extend group discussions.
• Use the mats in small-group counseling or Lunch Bunch sessions to practice identifying and expressing feelings.
• Laminate the mats or place them in reusable sleeves for use with dry-erase markers.
• Add the activities to spring SEL centers, classroom morning meetings, or creative emotional check-ins.

👩‍🏫 Who It's For:

Perfect for school counselors, school social workers, school psychologists, child therapists, speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, special education teachers, classroom teachers, and homeschool educators working with students in elementary school.

This resource is especially useful for professionals looking for hands-on, creative ways to support feelings identification, emotional vocabulary, self-awareness, and social awareness.

🖨️ Format & Download:

✔️ 48 printable spring feelings mats.

✔️ 40 printable feelings scenario cards.

✔️ Printable feelings prompt dice.

✔️ Full-color and black-and-white versions.

✔️ Activities suitable for drawing or play dough.

This is a digital download containing printable resources. Play dough, drawing materials, and other physical supplies are not included. No physical materials will be shipped.

📌 Important Notes:

This resource includes 48 feelings mats across four spring character designs: bee, butterfly, cloud, and tulip.

Students can participate through drawing, sculpting, pointing, discussion, or other communication methods that work for them. Play dough is an optional activity material, not a requirement for participation.

The goal is to help students explore emotional expressions and build awareness of how feelings can be communicated. There is no single correct way for a student to express an emotion.

This listing includes the individual Spring Feelings Play Dough and Drawing Mats resource, not the complete bundle.