Help students explore the connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions with this engaging Summer SEL Directed Drawing Set 3! This art therapy inspired activity combines step-by-step drawing with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) concepts, coping skills, self-awareness, and growth mindset.

Students answer social-emotional learning questions to reveal the steps of three summer-themed drawings. Along the way, they explore helpful and unhelpful thoughts, ways to respond to challenges, and strategies for developing more flexible thinking.

This creative counseling resource is a fun option for individual counseling, small groups, classroom SEL lessons, and end-of-year activities. The editable format also allows you to adapt discussion prompts for your students' individual needs.

📦 What's Included:

☀️ 3 Summer Directed Drawing Activities

• Three summer-themed step-by-step drawing activities.
• Students answer SEL questions to unlock drawing steps.
• Combines creative expression with social-emotional learning discussions.
• Opportunities to practice following directions, patience, and flexibility.

🧠 CBT & SEL Discussion Prompts

• Identifying helpful and unhelpful thoughts.
• Exploring ways to change unhelpful thoughts into more helpful ones.
• Discussing coping skills and self-awareness.
• Recognizing growth mindset and fixed mindset thinking.
• Exploring connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions.

✏️ Editable Activity Version

• Editable prompts for customizing the directed drawing activities.
• Opportunities to add questions related to individual counseling goals.
• Flexible options for adapting lessons to student needs.

🖨️ Bonus Printable Activities

• Supplemental printable activities to accompany the directed drawing lessons.
• Additional opportunities for drawing and reflection.

🎒 Quick Details: Grades 1–3 | ☀️ 3 summer drawings | 🧠 CBT + SEL prompts | ✏️ Editable activities | 🖨️ Bonus printables | Art therapy inspired

🛍️ Bundle & Save:

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☀️ Summer SEL Directed Drawing Bundle

• Includes three directed drawing activity sets.
• Features 10 summer-themed drawings and 60 SEL prompts.
• Covers feelings, social awareness, communication, problem-solving, and CBT skills.
• Includes editable versions and a bonus drawing set.

🌈 SEL Directed Drawing Growing Bundle

• Includes a growing collection of seasonal and skill-based directed drawing activities.
• Covers CBT, feelings, coping skills, communication, problem-solving, and more.
• Offers editable activities and bonus resources.

🎯 Skills Addressed:

✔️ Identifying helpful and unhelpful thoughts

✔️ Exploring more balanced and helpful self-talk

✔️ Understanding connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions

✔️ Developing coping skills and emotional awareness

✔️ Building self-awareness and reflection skills

✔️ Exploring growth mindset and flexible thinking

✔️ Practicing patience and accepting mistakes

💡 Ways to Use It:

• Use the summer drawings during individual counseling to explore helpful and unhelpful thinking.
• Incorporate the activities into small-group lessons about coping skills and emotional awareness.
• Discuss growth mindset and flexibility as students work through drawing steps.
• Customize the editable prompts to address specific counseling or classroom SEL goals.
• Use the drawing activities as an end-of-year reflection or summer counseling lesson.
• Invite students to share their drawings and discuss the thoughts or strategies they explored.
• Offer alternative ways to respond to prompts, including speaking, pointing, or writing.

👩‍🏫 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 ways to introduce CBT concepts, helpful thinking, coping skills, self-awareness, and growth mindset.

🖨️ Format & Download:

✔️ Three summer-themed directed drawing activities.

✔️ CBT and SEL discussion prompts.

✔️ Editable activity version.

✔️ Bonus printable resources.

✔️ Digital directed drawing activities.

This is a digital resource. No physical materials will be shipped.

📌 Important Notes:

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

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

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