Help students build emotional awareness, practice positive self-talk, and strengthen self-esteem with these fun Spring SEL Feelings Mazes and Positive Affirmation Activities!

This no-prep social-emotional learning resource combines six spring-themed mazes with feelings identification puzzles, scenario cards, discussion dice, and bonus worksheets. Students can practice naming emotions, recognizing facial expressions, and exploring positive affirmations through engaging, hands-on activities.

With full-color and black-and-white maze options, this resource is easy to incorporate into individual counseling, small groups, classroom SEL lessons, calm corners, and early-finisher activities. It's a fun way to combine feelings vocabulary, self-awareness, and self-esteem activities with a spring theme!

📦 What's Included:

🌀 6 Spring Feelings & Positive Affirmation Mazes

• Six different spring-themed SEL mazes
• Full-color and black-and-white versions, for 12 printable maze pages
• Positive self-talk affirmations for students to repeat or discuss
• Mazes that ask students to identify feelings from two choices
• Mazes that encourage students to write the feeling shown in a picture
• Discussion prompts to encourage conversations about emotions

🧩 20 Two-Piece Feelings Matching Puzzles

• 20 printable two-piece feelings puzzles
• Students match facial expressions with feeling words
• Hands-on opportunities to practice recognizing and naming emotions
• Useful for individual instruction, partner activities, and SEL centers

💬 20 Feelings Scenario Cards

• 20 scenario cards for exploring emotions in different situations
• Opportunities to discuss how someone might feel and why
• Encourages students to consider different emotional responses
• Can be paired with the puzzles or used independently for discussion

🎲 Feelings Discussion Dice

• Printable dice to encourage conversations about feelings
• Interactive prompts for extending emotional awareness activities
• Can be used during counseling sessions, small groups, or classroom SEL lessons

📝 7 Bonus SEL Worksheets

• Seven additional printable activity pages
• Useful for reinforcing feelings identification and self-awareness
• Great for calm corners, independent practice, or early-finisher activities

❤️ Feelings & Emotional Vocabulary

The activities explore a variety of emotions and feeling-related words, including:

• Happy, joyful, excited, proud, and loved
• Sad, disappointed, bored, tired, and shy
• Angry, annoyed, frustrated, furious, enraged, and agitated
• Scared, worried, nervous, confused, and embarrassed
• Shocked, surprised, astonished, curious, jealous, skeptical, serious, silly, and funny

🎒 Quick Details: Elementary students | 🌀 6 mazes in color + B&W | 🧩 20 feelings puzzles | 💬 20 scenario cards | 🎲 Discussion dice | 📝 7 bonus pages | ❤️ Feelings + self-esteem | 🖨️ Printable activities

🛍️ Bundle & Save:

Want a discount on these spring feelings and affirmation activities? Check out:

🌸 Spring Counseling + Social Emotional Learning Bundle

• Includes seven spring-themed counseling and SEL resources
• Features feelings mazes, matching puzzles, yoga activities, drawing and dough mats, board games, and Color by Code activities
• Offers a variety of ways to practice emotional awareness, positive self-talk, coping skills, problem-solving, and social skills
• This larger bundle is a great option for professionals who want a variety of spring-themed SEL activities for counseling sessions and classroom lessons

🎯 Skills Addressed:

✔️ Identifying and naming emotions

✔️ Recognizing facial expressions and emotional cues

✔️ Building self-esteem and positive self-talk

✔️ Developing emotional vocabulary and self-awareness

✔️ Exploring how people might feel in different situations

✔️ Practicing social awareness and perspective-taking

✔️ Expressing thoughts and feelings through discussion and writing

💡 Ways to Use It:

• Use the positive affirmation mazes during individual counseling sessions focused on self-esteem and positive self-talk
• Incorporate the feelings identification mazes into kindergarten and first-grade classroom SEL lessons
• Offer the black-and-white mazes as coloring activities for students who enjoy creative expression
• Use the 20 two-piece puzzles to help students match facial expressions with emotion words
• Pair the 20 scenario cards with the puzzles to explore feelings in everyday situations
• Roll the feelings discussion dice during small-group counseling or Lunch Bunch activities
• Add the seven bonus worksheets to calm corners, SEL centers, or early-finisher activities

👩‍🏫 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 kindergarten through second grade.

This resource is especially useful for professionals looking for low-prep activities to support feelings identification, emotional vocabulary, positive self-talk, self-esteem, and social awareness.

🖨️ Format & Download:

✔️ Six printable SEL mazes in full color

✔️ Six black-and-white maze versions

✔️ 20 two-piece feelings matching puzzles

✔️ 20 feelings scenario cards

✔️ Printable feelings discussion dice

✔️ Seven bonus SEL activity pages

✔️ Printable digital download

📌 Important Notes:

• Positive affirmations can be introduced as invitations to explore supportive self-talk, rather than statements students must repeat or believe
• 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