Bring summer fun into your counseling sessions and SEL lessons with this Summer SEL Directed Drawing Set 1! This art therapy inspired activity combines step-by-step drawing with meaningful social-emotional learning conversations about feelings, empathy, social awareness, and social skills.

Students answer six SEL prompts to unlock the steps for each of three summer drawings: a beach ball, crab, and sunblock. As they draw, students explore how to recognize emotions through facial expressions, body language, and words, show care for others, and consider different perspectives.

Directed drawing also provides opportunities to build confidence, practice fine motor skills, strengthen attention to detail, and develop patience. With editable Google Slides, SEL pre-teaching slides, and bonus printable pages, this flexible resource works well for individual counseling, small groups, classroom SEL lessons, and virtual sessions.

📦 What's Included:

☀️ 3 Summer SEL Directed Drawing Activities

• Beach ball directed drawing.
• Crab directed drawing.
• Sunblock directed drawing.
• Step-by-step drawing instructions unlocked by answering SEL prompts.
• Six prompts per drawing, for 18 prompts total.

💬 18 Social Awareness & Feelings Prompts

• Identifying emotions by examining words, facial expressions, and body language.
• Recognizing what people might look like when experiencing different emotions.
• Showing care, compassion, and empathy.
• Exploring perspective-taking and understanding others' experiences.
• Practicing social awareness and relationship skills.

✏️ Editable Google Slides Edition

• Editable version for writing your own questions or prompts.
• Customize the drawings for different SEL goals, counseling topics, or academic subjects.
• Reuse the activities with new questions to meet your students' needs.

💡 SEL Pre-Teaching Slides Review

• Growth mindset
• Grit and perseverance
• Patience
• Coping skills
• Being okay with making mistakes

🖨️ Bonus Printable Pages

• Additional printable pages to accompany the digital directed drawing activities.
• Flexible options for students who prefer working on paper.
• Can be incorporated into in-person counseling sessions or classroom lessons.

🎒 Quick Details: Elementary Students | ☀️ 3 drawings: beach ball, crab + sunblock | 💬 18 SEL prompts | ❤️ Feelings + social awareness | ✏️ Editable Google Slides | 💡 Pre-teaching slides | 🖨️ Bonus printables

🛍️ Bundle & Save:

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☀️ Summer SEL Directed Drawing Bundle

• Includes multiple summer-themed directed drawing activities.
• Combines drawing with SEL questions focused on feelings, social skills, communication, and related skills.
• Offers additional opportunities to practice social-emotional learning through creative activities.

🌈 Social Emotional Learning Guided & Directed Drawing Growing Bundle

• Includes directed drawing activities across seasonal and social-emotional learning themes.
• Features editable resources for customizing SEL prompts.
• Provides creative activities for practicing feelings identification, coping skills, social awareness, communication, and more.

😎 Summer Counseling & SEL Bundle

• Includes 5 summer SEL resources with 10 board games, a would you rather yoga game, feelings play dough and drawing mats with scenario cards, 3 SEL directed drawings and feelings and coping skills color by code activities

🎯 Skills Addressed:

✔️ Identifying feelings through facial expressions, body language, and words

✔️ Developing empathy and showing care for others

✔️ Practicing social awareness and perspective-taking

✔️ Building self-awareness and emotional vocabulary

✔️ Strengthening relationship skills and social communication

✔️ Developing patience, perseverance, and growth mindset

✔️ Practicing fine motor skills, focus, and attention to detail

💡 Ways to Use It:

• Use the beach ball directed drawing during individual counseling sessions focused on feelings identification and social awareness.
• Incorporate the crab drawing into small-group counseling or Lunch Bunch lessons about empathy and perspective-taking.
• Use the sunblock drawing during classroom SEL lessons to encourage conversations about recognizing and understanding emotions.
• Introduce growth mindset, patience, and coping skills with the pre-teaching slides before beginning a drawing.
• Customize the editable Google Slides prompts to address specific counseling goals or classroom learning objectives.
• Display the activities on a smartboard or share your screen during virtual counseling sessions.
• Use the bonus printable pages for students who prefer paper-based activities or as follow-up drawing opportunities.

👩‍🏫 Who It's For:

Perfect for school counselors, school social workers, school psychologists, speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, child therapists, special education teachers, classroom teachers, homeschool educators, and other professionals supporting elementary students.

This resource is especially useful for professionals looking for engaging, creative ways to support feelings identification, empathy, social awareness, perspective-taking, and social skills.

🖨️ Format & Download:

✔️ Three digital summer directed drawing activities.

✔️ Eighteen 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 resource accessed through Google Slides using the included PDF. It can be used individually, with small groups, or with a whole class, in person or through screen sharing. No physical materials will be shipped.

📌 Important Notes:

This resource includes three summer drawings: beach ball, crab, and sunblock. Students answer six SEL prompts to reveal the steps for each drawing.

The editable edition allows you to replace the included questions with prompts suited to your students' needs or another subject area.

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, patience, and creative problem-solving.

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

This listing includes Summer SEL Directed Drawing Set 1 only, not the complete Summer Directed Drawing Bundle.