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.

This is a digital download containing printable resources. No physical materials will be shipped.

📌 Important Notes:

This resource includes six different maze activities, each provided in color and black and white. The black-and-white versions can also be used as coloring activities.

Students can participate through pointing, matching, coloring, writing, discussion, or other communication methods that work for them. The activities can be adapted to support different communication and learning needs.

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

This listing is for the individual Spring SEL Affirmations and Feelings Mazes resource, not the complete Spring Counseling + SEL Bundle.