Help students explore the connection between their thoughts, feelings, and actions with this engaging Spring CBT & SEL Directed Drawing activity! This art therapy inspired resource combines step-by-step drawing with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) concepts, coping skills, self-awareness, and growth mindset.

Students answer social-emotional learning prompts to unlock each step of three spring drawings: an umbrella, a flower, and a watering can. With six prompts per drawing, students have opportunities to identify helpful and unhelpful thoughts, practice reframing their thinking, and explore strategies for managing challenging situations.

This digital, editable resource also includes SEL pre-teaching slides and bonus printable pages. It's a creative option for individual counseling, small groups, classroom SEL lessons, and telehealth sessions, especially for students who enjoy drawing and hands-on learning.

📦 What's Included:

🌷 3 Spring Directed Drawing Activities

• Umbrella directed drawing.
• Flower directed drawing.
• Watering can directed drawing.
• Step-by-step drawing instructions revealed as students answer SEL questions.
• Six prompts per drawing, for 18 prompts total.

🧠 18 CBT & SEL Discussion Prompts

• Identifying helpful and unhelpful thoughts.
• Practicing ways to change unhelpful thoughts into more helpful ones.
• Exploring coping skills and self-awareness.
• Recognizing growth mindset and fixed mindset thinking.
• Reflecting on social-emotional situations and personal experiences.

✏️ Editable Google Slides Version

• Editable edition for adding your own questions or prompts.
• Customize the activity for different counseling goals, academic topics, or student needs.
• Reuse the spring drawing activities with new discussion questions.

💡 SEL Pre-Teaching Slides

• Growth mindset.
• Grit and perseverance.
• Patience.
• Coping skills.
• Accepting mistakes as part of learning.

🖨️ Bonus Printable Pages

• Additional printable pages to accompany the digital directed drawing activities.
• Flexible options for in-person counseling and classroom lessons.

🎒 Quick Details: Grades 1–3 | 🌷 3 spring drawings: umbrella, flower + watering can | 🧠 18 CBT & SEL prompts | ✏️ Editable Google Slides | 💡 Pre-teaching slides | 🖨️ Bonus printables | Digital + print

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🌸 Spring SEL Directed Drawing Bundle

• Includes three complete spring directed drawing sets.
• Features 10 spring-themed drawings and 60 SEL prompts.
• Covers feelings, social awareness, communication, problem-solving, CBT concepts, and coping skills.
• Includes editable editions and bonus printable pages.

🌈 SEL Directed Drawing Growing Bundle

• Includes 60 directed drawing activities across seasonal and social-emotional learning themes.
• Features 240 SEL prompts.
• Includes editable versions, digital resources, and bonus pages.
• Offers activities focused on feelings, coping skills, social skills, communication, problem-solving, and more.

🎯 Skills Addressed:

✔️ Identifying helpful and unhelpful thoughts

✔️ Practicing more helpful and balanced self-talk

✔️ Understanding connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions

✔️ Exploring coping skills and emotional regulation

✔️ Building self-awareness and reflection skills

✔️ Developing growth mindset, patience, and perseverance

✔️ Practicing flexibility and accepting mistakes

💡 Ways to Use It:

• Use the umbrella drawing during individual counseling to introduce helpful and unhelpful thoughts.
• Incorporate the flower drawing into small-group lessons about coping skills and self-awareness.
• Use the watering can drawing to explore growth mindset and ways to respond when something feels challenging.
• Introduce CBT concepts with the pre-teaching slides before beginning a drawing activity.
• Customize the editable Google Slides prompts to address individual counseling goals or classroom learning objectives.
• Present the activities on a smartboard or through screen sharing during classroom SEL lessons or telehealth sessions.
• Use the bonus printable pages for students who prefer drawing on paper or as a follow-up activity.

👩‍🏫 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 first through third grade.

This resource is especially useful for professionals looking for creative, art-based ways to introduce CBT concepts, helpful thinking, coping skills, self-awareness, and growth mindset.

🖨️ Format & Download:

✔️ Three digital spring directed drawing activities.

✔️ Eighteen CBT and SEL prompts, with six prompts per drawing.

✔️ Editable Google Slides edition.

✔️ SEL pre-teaching slides.

✔️ Bonus printable pages.

✔️ PDF with access to the Google Slides resource.

This is a digital download. Google Slides access is provided through the included PDF. No physical materials will be shipped.

📌 Important Notes:

This resource includes three spring drawings: umbrella, flower, and watering can. Students answer six SEL prompts to reveal the steps for each drawing.

The editable version allows you to replace the included prompts with questions suited to your students' needs.

Students can participate through drawing, discussion, pointing, or other communication methods that work for them. Drawings do not need to look identical, and mistakes can be approached as opportunities for flexibility and creative problem-solving.

This is an art therapy inspired educational resource, not a formal art therapy treatment protocol.

This listing includes Spring SEL Directed Drawing Set 3 only, not the complete Spring Directed Drawing Bundle.