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

Featuring crabs, s'mores, suns, and ice cream cones, this resource includes 39 feelings mats, 40 scenario cards, feelings flashcards covering 10 emotions, and feelings prompt dice. 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 groups, classroom SEL centers, and summer learning 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:

☀️ 39 Summer Feelings Play Dough & Drawing Mats

• 39 printable feelings mats featuring four summer designs.
• Crab, s'more, sun, and ice cream cone 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 Flashcards & 10 Emotions

• Feelings flashcards support emotional vocabulary development and can be used alongside the mats and scenario cards.
• The 10 feelings covered include angry, confused, embarrassed, excited, happy, proud, sad, silly, surprised, and worried

🎲 Feelings Prompt Dice

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

🖨️ 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 summer designs | 🎨 39 feelings mats | 💬 40 scenario cards | ❤️ 10 emotions + flashcards | 🎲 Feelings prompt dice | 🖨️ Color + B&W | Printable resource

🛍️ Bundle & Save:

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🌈 Feelings Play Dough & Drawing Mats Growing Bundle

• Includes a collection of seasonal and themed feelings dough and drawing mats.
• Offers different characters and designs for practicing emotional identification throughout the year.
• Includes scenario cards and other activities to extend feelings discussions.

☀️ Summer Counseling & SEL Bundle

• Summer-themed social-emotional learning activities including 10 digital and printable board games, summer yoga brain breaks, hands-on feelings dough and drawing mats, directed drawing activities, and differentiated Color by Code worksheets

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🎯 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 crab, s'more, sun, or ice cream cone 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.
• Use the feelings flashcards to introduce or review the 10 emotions before students create their own facial expressions.
• 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.

👩‍🏫 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 elementary students.

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:

✔️ 39 printable summer feelings mats.

✔️ 40 printable feelings scenario cards.

✔️ Feelings flashcards covering 10 emotions.

✔️ 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 39 feelings mats across four summer designs: crab, s'more, sun, and ice cream cone.

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 Summer Feelings Play Dough and Drawing Mats resource, not the complete bundle.