Help students recognize emotions, practice perspective-taking, and build social awareness through creative, hands-on spring SEL directed drawing activities!

Spring SEL Directed Drawing Set 1 combines three spring-themed guided drawings with 18 social-emotional learning discussion prompts. Students answer questions about feelings, empathy, and social situations to unlock each step of a drawing.

This Answer It, See It, Draw It activity offers a creative alternative to traditional worksheets. With editable Google Slides, SEL pre-teaching slides, and bonus printable pages, it's a flexible resource for individual counseling, small groups, classroom SEL lessons, and spring Lunch Bunch activities.

📦 What's Included:

🎨 3 Spring Directed Drawings:

• Answer feelings and social awareness prompts to unlock the steps to complete three spring-themed drawings including a bird, a bee hive, and a plant pot.
• Each drawing includes six SEL questions to encourage discussion and reflection.

💬 18 Feelings & Social Awareness Prompts

• 6 SEL prompts for each drawing.
• Identifying feelings through facial expressions, body language, and words.
• Recognizing how others might feel in different situations.
• Showing care, kindness, and empathy.
• Understanding different perspectives.
• Building emotional awareness and social understanding.

✏️ Editable Google Slides Activities

• Editable editions so you can write your own prompts or questions for any subject.
• Step-by-step directed drawing activities in Google Slides.

🌱 SEL Pre-Teaching Slides

• Pre-teaching slides that address growth mindset, perseverance, patience, coping skills, and being okay with making mistakes.
• Opportunities to discuss trying new things and approaching challenges with flexibility.

🖨️ Bonus Printable Pages

• Printable drawing pages for students who prefer working on paper.
• Additional opportunities for creative practice and skill reinforcement.

🎒 Quick Details: Grades 1–3 | 🌷 3 spring guided drawings | 💬 18 SEL prompts | ❤️ Feelings + social awareness | ✏️ Editable Google Slides | 🌱 SEL pre-teaching slides | 🖨️ Bonus printables | 💻 Digital + print

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🌷 Spring Social Emotional Directed Drawing Bundle

• Includes 10 spring-themed guided drawings across three sets, with 60 SEL prompts, editable editions, and bonus printable pages.
• Explore feelings, social awareness, communication, problem-solving, and CBT skills.

🎨 Social-Emotional Learning Guided & Directed Drawing Growing Bundle

• Includes 60 guided drawings covering CBT, self-esteem, feelings, communication, problem-solving, and seasonal SEL themes, with editable activities and bonus resources.

🎯 Skills Addressed:

✔️ Identifying and naming feelings

✔️ Recognizing emotions through facial expressions and body language

✔️ Social awareness and empathy

✔️ Perspective-taking and understanding different viewpoints

✔️ Showing care and kindness toward others

✔️ Self-awareness and emotional expression

✔️ Patience, perseverance, and accepting mistakes

💡 Ways to Use It:

• Use the guided drawings during individual counseling sessions focused on recognizing and expressing emotions.
• Incorporate the activities into spring small-group counseling or Lunch Bunch sessions.
• Present the Google Slides on a smartboard for classroom SEL lessons.
• Customize the editable questions to address specific student goals.
• Use the prompts as conversation starters about feelings, empathy, and understanding others.
• Offer the printable pages for students who prefer drawing on paper.
• Use the pre-teaching slides to discuss perseverance, patience, and making mistakes.

👩‍🏫 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 grades 1–3.

These activities are especially useful for professionals looking for creative ways to support emotional awareness, empathy, perspective-taking, and social skills.

🖨️ Format & Download:

✔️ Digital Google Slides directed drawing activities.

✔️ Editable editions for customizing discussion prompts.

✔️ Bonus printable drawing pages.

✔️ PDF instructions for accessing the digital activities.

This is a digital download containing Google Slides activities and printable resources. No physical materials will be shipped.

📌 Important Notes:

The directed drawing activities combine SEL discussion with step-by-step drawing. Students can respond verbally, in writing, by pointing, or through other communication methods that work for them.

Drawing ability is not the focus. The activities are designed to encourage emotional expression, social understanding, conversation, and creativity.

This listing includes Spring SEL Directed Drawing Set 1 with three drawings, not the complete 10-drawing Spring Bundle.

Digital products are non-returnable.