Make summer social-emotional learning engaging with this Summer SEL Directed Drawing Bundle! These art therapy inspired activities combine step-by-step drawing with meaningful discussions about feelings, social skills, communication, problem-solving, and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) concepts.

Students answer social-emotional learning questions to unlock each step of 10 summer-themed drawings. With 60 prompts across three activity sets, students can explore emotional awareness, perspective-taking, helpful thinking, communication, and coping skills while creating their own summer artwork.

This digital bundle includes editable versions so you can customize the questions for your students, along with a bonus drawing set. It's a creative, flexible resource for individual counseling, small groups, classroom SEL lessons, and virtual counseling sessions.

📦 What's Included:

☀️ 10 Summer Directed Drawing Activities

• Students unlock step-by-step drawing instructions as they answer SEL questions.
• The 10 summer drawings include a seashell, ice cream, sun, fish, beach ball, crab, sunscreen lotion, a boat, a sandcastle, and a sand dollar

💬 60 Social-Emotional Learning Prompts

• 60 SEL questions and discussion prompts across the bundle.
• Six prompts for each summer drawing.
• Activities addressing feelings, social awareness, communication, problem-solving, and CBT concepts.
• Opportunities to discuss real-life situations and practice different ways of responding.

❤️ Feelings & Social Awareness Prompts

• Explore how people communicate emotions through words, facial expressions, and body language.
• Discuss empathy and showing care for others.
• Practice identifying feelings in different situations.
• Consider how people may have different perspectives and emotional experiences.

🤝 Problem-Solving & Communication Prompts

• Explore helpful ways to communicate thoughts and feelings.
• Practice using I-statements during disagreements.
• Consider compromise and solutions that work for everyone involved.
• Discuss staying on topic, apologizing, and using a social filter.

🧠 CBT & Coping Skills Prompts

• Explore connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions.
• Practice identifying helpful and unhelpful thoughts.
• Consider more balanced ways of thinking about challenging situations.
• Discuss coping strategies, flexibility, and responding to mistakes.

✏️ Editable Google Slides Activities

• Editable editions are included so you can write your own prompts or questions.
• Customize the activities for individual counseling goals, classroom topics, or student needs.
• Reuse the summer drawings with different discussion questions.

💡 SEL Pre-Teaching Concepts

The directed drawing activities also offer opportunities to introduce and reinforce:

• Growth mindset and perseverance
• Patience and following directions
• Coping skills and emotional regulation
• Accepting mistakes as part of learning
• Confidence, creativity, and flexible thinking

🎒 Quick Details: Grades 1–3 | ☀️ 10 summer drawings | 💬 60 SEL prompts | 📚 3 activity sets | 🧠 CBT + feelings + social skills | ✏️ Editable editions | 🎁 Bonus set | 💻 Digital Google Slides

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🌈 SEL Directed Drawing Growing Bundle

• Includes 60 directed drawing activities across seasonal and social-emotional learning themes.
• Features 240 SEL prompts.
• Includes summer, fall, winter, and spring drawing activities, along with CBT and self-esteem themes.
• Provides editable editions and bonus printable resources.
• Offers activities addressing feelings, communication, coping skills, self-esteem, and problem-solving.

🎯 Skills Addressed:

✔️ Identifying and expressing emotions

✔️ Recognizing facial expressions, body language, and social cues

✔️ Developing empathy and perspective-taking

✔️ Practicing communication and problem-solving

✔️ Understanding connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions

✔️ Exploring coping skills and helpful thinking

✔️ Building patience, perseverance, flexibility, and confidence

💡 Ways to Use It:

• Use a summer drawing during individual counseling to encourage discussion about feelings and personal experiences.
• Incorporate the social awareness prompts into small-group counseling lessons about empathy and perspective-taking.
• Practice communication and problem-solving skills while students work through the drawing steps.
• Introduce CBT concepts by discussing how thoughts can influence feelings and actions.
• Customize the editable questions to align with individual counseling goals or classroom SEL topics.
• Display the Google Slides activities on a smartboard for interactive classroom lessons or share your screen during virtual sessions.
• Use the drawing process to practice patience, flexible thinking, and responding to mistakes with self-compassion.

👩‍🏫 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 bundle is especially useful for professionals looking for creative, art-based activities to support emotional awareness, CBT concepts, social skills, communication, problem-solving, and coping skills.

🖨️ Format & Download:

✔️ 10 digital summer directed drawing activities.

✔️ 60 social-emotional learning prompts.

✔️ Three activity sets covering feelings, social skills, communication, problem-solving, and CBT concepts.

✔️ Editable versions for customizing questions.

✔️ Bonus directed drawing set.

✔️ Google Slides activities for individual, small-group, classroom, and virtual use.

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

📌 Important Notes:

This bundle includes 10 summer-themed drawings and 60 SEL prompts, with six questions per drawing.

Students answer questions to reveal drawing steps, but participation can be adapted to different communication and learning needs. Students may respond verbally, by pointing, through alternative communication, or in other ways that work for them.

The goal is not to create perfect drawings. These activities encourage creativity, reflection, confidence, and opportunities to practice coping with mistakes and unexpected outcomes.

The editable versions allow you to replace the included questions with prompts suited to your students or instructional goals.

These are art therapy inspired educational activities, not a formal art therapy treatment protocol.

This listing includes the complete Summer SEL Directed Drawing Bundle of 10 activities, rather than one individual summer drawing set.