Bring some seasonal fun into your counseling sessions and social-emotional learning lessons with this Thanksgiving Counseling + SEL Activities Bundle! This collection of eight fall and Thanksgiving-themed resources helps elementary students explore feelings, social skills, positive self-talk, decision-making, and movement through engaging, hands-on activities.

Students can practice identifying emotions, consider expected and unexpected behavior choices, explore positive affirmations, and take movement breaks with Thanksgiving-themed yoga and creative movement games. The bundle also includes feelings puzzles, mazes, and three differentiated Color by Code activities.

With digital and printable options across the collection, these activities are easy to incorporate into individual counseling, small groups, classroom SEL lessons, morning meetings, learning centers, and November activities.

📦 What's Included:

🍁 Thanksgiving Expected Behavior Game

• 30 Thanksgiving-themed behavior scenarios for discussion and sorting.
• Digital, self-correcting game.
• Printable activity cards for additional practice.
• Opportunities to explore behavior choices, social expectations, and responsible decision-making.

🧘 Thanksgiving Would You Rather Yoga Game

• 29 Thanksgiving-themed This or That stretching prompts.
• Students choose between movement options.
• Engaging brain breaks for classroom lessons and counseling groups.
• Opportunities to practice body awareness and explore movement.

🧩 Thanksgiving Feelings Matching Puzzles

• 30 two-piece feelings puzzles.
• 30 three-piece feelings puzzles.
• 19 scenario cards for discussing feelings in everyday situations.
• Bonus feelings matching game.
• Additional printable activity pages.

🌀 Thanksgiving Positive Affirmations & Feelings Mazes

• Six SEL maze activities focused on self-esteem and feelings identification.
• Full-color and black-and-white versions.
• Positive affirmations for exploring supportive self-talk.
• Feelings discussion dice.
• 19 feelings scenario cards.
• Bonus feelings puzzles and worksheets.

🎨 Scarecrow Feelings Color by Code

• Six differentiated scarecrow coloring pages.
• 16 feelings prompts for discussion and self-reflection.
• Digital and printable versions.
• Activities for practicing emotional identification.

🍂 Thanksgiving Creative Movement Activity

• Thanksgiving-themed Would You Rather yoga and creative movement game.
• Digital and printable activity options.
• Movement choices for classroom brain breaks and group activities.
• A second movement resource to complement the Thanksgiving Yoga Game.

🐿️ Squirrel Feelings Color by Code

• Six differentiated squirrel coloring pages.
• 14 feelings prompts for discussion and self-reflection.
• Digital and printable versions.
• Activities for exploring emotions and social awareness.

🌽 Corn Husk Feelings Color by Code

• Six differentiated corn husk coloring pages.
• 14 feelings prompts for discussion and self-reflection.
• Digital and printable versions.
• Opportunities to practice feelings identification.

🎒 Quick Details: Elementary Students | 🍁 8 Thanksgiving SEL resources | 🧩 60 feelings puzzles | 💬 30 behavior scenarios | 🧘 2 movement games | 🌀 6 maze designs | 🎨 18 differentiated Color by Code pages | ❤️ 44 Color by Code prompts | 💻 Digital + print

🎯 Skills Addressed:

✔️ Identifying and naming emotions

✔️ Building emotional awareness and self-reflection

✔️ Exploring expected and unexpected behavior choices

✔️ Developing social awareness and responsible decision-making

✔️ Practicing positive self-talk and self-esteem skills

✔️ Recognizing feelings in different situations

✔️ Exploring movement and body awareness as part of self-regulation

💡 Ways to Use It:

• Use the Thanksgiving Expected Behavior Game during individual counseling or small groups to discuss social expectations and behavior choices.
• Start classroom SEL lessons with a Would You Rather yoga or creative movement brain break.
• Introduce the two-piece feelings puzzles for emotion identification, then use the three-piece puzzles for additional discussion.
• Incorporate the positive affirmation mazes into lessons about self-esteem and supportive self-talk.
• Use the scarecrow, squirrel, and corn husk Color by Code activities during November counseling sessions or SEL centers.
• Pair the scenario cards with feelings discussions to explore how different people might respond to similar situations.
• Rotate through the eight activities during Lunch Bunch, classroom morning meetings, small-group counseling, or seasonal learning centers.

👩‍🏫 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 bundle is especially useful for professionals looking for engaging, low-prep ways to teach emotional awareness, social skills, positive self-talk, decision-making, and movement through seasonal activities.

🖨️ Format & Download:

✔️ Digital and printable Thanksgiving Expected Behavior Game with 30 scenarios.

✔️ Thanksgiving Would You Rather Yoga Game with 29 stretching prompts.

✔️ 60 printable feelings puzzles with 19 scenario cards and bonus activities.

✔️ Six feelings and positive affirmation maze designs with additional discussion materials.

✔️ Thanksgiving Creative Movement Game in digital and printable formats.

✔️ Three Color by Code sets with 18 differentiated coloring pages and 44 prompts.

✔️ Digital and printable resources across the bundle.

This is a digital download containing a collection of printable and digital SEL resources. No physical materials will be shipped.

📌 Important Notes:

The 18 Color by Code coloring pages consist of six differentiated versions each of the scarecrow, squirrel, and corn husk designs. The 44 Color by Code prompts are distributed across those three activities.

Students can participate through matching, coloring, discussion, movement, pointing, writing, or other communication methods that work for them. Movement activities can be modified or offered as optional choices to accommodate individual comfort and accessibility needs.

Thanksgiving activities can be adapted with sensitivity to students' cultural backgrounds, family experiences, and perspectives on the holiday.

This listing includes the complete Thanksgiving Counseling + Social Emotional Learning Bundle, not just one individual activity.

This is a digital product. No refunds are available on digital purchases.