Make feelings identification fun and interactive with these Thanksgiving Feelings Matching Puzzles! This hands-on social-emotional learning resource helps students recognize, name, and explore emotions through differentiated, self-correcting puzzles featuring scarecrows, pie, and turkeys.

With 60 puzzles in total, students can match facial expressions to feeling words or extend their learning by connecting emotions to everyday situations. The two-piece and three-piece versions make it easy to differentiate the activity for students who are developing their emotional vocabulary or are ready to explore feelings in context.

This printable resource also includes a feelings matching game, conversation dice, and eight bonus pages that are perfect for calm corners. It's a flexible, low-prep activity for individual counseling, small groups, classroom SEL centers, and Thanksgiving or fall counseling lessons.

📦 What's Included:

🧩 60 Differentiated, Self-Correcting Feelings Puzzles

• 60 printable feelings puzzles across three Thanksgiving-themed designs.
• Two-piece puzzles for matching a facial expression to a feeling word.
• Three-piece puzzles for matching a scenario, facial expression, and feeling word.
• Self-correcting puzzle pieces to support independent practice.
• Differentiated options for students with varying emotional vocabulary and learning needs.

❤️ 10 Feelings Covered

• Angry, confused, excited, happy, proud, sad, scared, shocked, shy, and worried

🎲 Feelings Conversation Dice

• Printable dice to extend and deepen conversations about emotions.
• Can be used alongside the puzzles or as a separate discussion activity.
• Encourages students to explore emotional experiences through conversation.

🎯 Bonus Feelings Matching Game

• Additional matching game for practicing feelings identification.
• Reinforces connections between facial expressions and emotion words.
• Useful for individual counseling, small groups, and SEL centers.

📝 8 Bonus SEL Pages

• Eight additional printable activity pages.
• Perfect for adding to classroom calm corners.
• Additional opportunities to reinforce feelings identification and emotional awareness.

🎒 Quick Details: Grades K–2 | 🧩 60 self-correcting puzzles | 🍂 3 Thanksgiving themes | ❤️ 10 feelings | 🎲 Conversation dice | 🎯 Matching game | 📝 8 bonus pages | 🖨️ Printable PDF

🛍️ Bundle & Save:

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🍁 Thanksgiving Social Emotional Learning Activity Bundle

• Includes eight Thanksgiving and fall-themed counseling and SEL resources.
• Features these Thanksgiving Feelings Puzzles alongside feelings mazes, yoga activities, Color by Code worksheets, and an expected behavior game.
• Provides a variety of hands-on activities for practicing feelings identification, social awareness, coping skills, and social-emotional learning.
• This larger bundle is a great option for school counselors and educators looking for ready-to-use Thanksgiving SEL activities.

🎯 Skills Addressed:

✔️ Identifying and naming 10 different feelings

✔️ Recognizing emotions through facial expressions

✔️ Building emotional vocabulary and self-awareness

✔️ Connecting feelings to everyday situations

✔️ Developing social awareness and perspective-taking

✔️ Matching visual cues, emotion words, and scenarios

✔️ Practicing independent problem-solving and self-checking

💡 Ways to Use It:

• Introduce the two-piece puzzles during individual counseling sessions to practice matching facial expressions with feeling words.
• Use the three-piece puzzles to help students explore how different situations might make someone feel.
• Set up the self-correcting puzzles as an independent activity in classroom SEL centers.
• Rotate through the scarecrow, turkey, and pilgrim designs during small-group counseling or Lunch Bunch sessions.
• Roll the feelings conversation dice to encourage students to share examples or discuss emotions.
• Use the bonus matching game to review feelings vocabulary after completing the puzzles.
• Add the eight bonus pages to calm corners, classroom activities, or follow-up counseling lessons.

👩‍🏫 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 kindergarten through second grade.

This resource is especially useful for professionals looking for differentiated, hands-on activities to support feelings identification, emotional vocabulary, self-awareness, and social awareness.

🖨️ Format & Download:

✔️ 60 printable feelings puzzles.

✔️ 30 two-piece puzzles for matching facial expressions and feeling words.

✔️ 30 three-piece puzzles that include matching scenarios.

✔️ Three Thanksgiving-themed designs: scarecrows, turkeys, and pilgrims.

✔️ Printable feelings conversation dice.

✔️ Bonus feelings matching game.

✔️ Eight bonus SEL pages.

✔️ Printable PDF file format.

📌 Important Notes:

• This is a digital download. No physical product will be shipped. Due to the digital nature of this resource, all sales are final and refunds are not available.