Help students explore feelings in a creative, hands-on way with these Thanksgiving Feelings Play Dough and Drawing Mats! These engaging social-emotional learning activities invite children to draw or sculpt facial expressions on turkeys, corn, pies, and dishes while practicing emotional identification and self-awareness.

This resource includes 49 feelings mats, 40 scenario cards, feelings flashcards covering 10 emotions, and printable feelings prompt dice. Students can experiment with facial expressions, explore how different situations might make someone feel, and practice recognizing emotions in themselves and others.

Perfect for individual counseling, small groups, classroom SEL centers, and fall activities, these printable mats offer a playful alternative to traditional feelings worksheets. Students can participate through drawing, play dough, discussion, or a combination of approaches that works for them.

📦 What's Included:

🦃 49 Thanksgiving Feelings Play Dough & Drawing Mats

• 49 printable feelings mats featuring four Thanksgiving designs.
• Turkey, corn, pie, and dish characters.
• Blank faces for students to draw or sculpt different emotional expressions.
• Opportunities to explore facial features and how they communicate feelings.
• Activities that can be used with play dough, drawing materials, or other creative tools.

💬 40 Feelings Scenario Cards

• 40 scenario cards to encourage conversations about emotions.
• Situations students can use to explore how someone might feel.
• Opportunities to discuss different emotional responses.
• Can be paired with the drawing and dough mats for additional practice.

❤️ Feelings Flashcards & 10 Emotions

• Feelings flashcards support emotional vocabulary development and can be used alongside the mats and scenario cards.
• The 10 feelings covered include annoyed, angry, excited, happy, proud, sad, scared, tired, surprised, and worried

🎲 Feelings Prompt Dice

• Printable dice with feelings prompts.
• An interactive way to extend conversations about emotions.
• Can be used with the mats, flashcards, and scenario cards.
• Encourages students to explore feelings through play and discussion.

🖨️ Color & Black-and-White Versions

• Full-color versions for engaging visual activities.
• Black-and-white versions for flexible printing.
• Feelings cards provided both with and without feeling words.
• Options for individual sessions, small groups, and classroom activities.

🎒 Quick Details: Elementary Students | 🦃 4 Thanksgiving designs | 🎨 49 feelings mats | 💬 40 scenario cards | ❤️ 10 emotions + flashcards | 🎲 Feelings prompt dice | 🖨️ Color + B&W | Printable PDF

🛍️ Bundle & Save:

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🌈 Feelings Play Dough & Drawing Mats Bundle

• Includes 10 sets of seasonal and themed feelings dough and drawing mats.
• Features more than 35 feelings mats in each set.
• Includes 40 or more scenario cards in each set.
• Provides a variety of characters and themes for practicing emotional identification throughout the year.

🍁 Thanksgiving SEL Activity Bundle

• Includes Thanksgiving-themed counseling and social-emotional learning resources.
• Features seasonal puzzles, mazes, yoga activities, Color by Code, and additional SEL games.
• Offers a variety of hands-on and printable activities for fall counseling and classroom lessons.

🎯 Skills Addressed:

✔️ Identifying and naming emotions

✔️ Recognizing facial expressions and emotional cues

✔️ Building self-awareness and emotional vocabulary

✔️ Exploring how different situations might make someone feel

✔️ Developing social awareness and perspective-taking

✔️ Expressing emotions through creative activities

✔️ Practicing communication and feelings-related discussions

💡 Ways to Use It:

• Invite students to draw different facial expressions on the turkey, corn, pie, or dish mats during individual counseling sessions.
• Offer play dough as a hands-on alternative to drawing for students who enjoy tactile activities.
• Pair the 40 scenario cards with the mats to explore how someone might feel in different situations.
• Use the feelings flashcards to introduce or review the 10 emotions before students create their own facial expressions.
• Roll the feelings prompt dice to introduce emotions or extend group discussions.
• Use the mats in small-group counseling or Lunch Bunch sessions to practice identifying and expressing feelings.
• Laminate the mats or place them in reusable sleeves for use with dry-erase markers.

👩‍🏫 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 resource is especially useful for professionals looking for hands-on, creative ways to support feelings identification, emotional vocabulary, self-awareness, and social awareness.

🖨️ Format & Download:

✔️ 49 printable Thanksgiving feelings mats.

✔️ 40 printable feelings scenario cards.

✔️ Feelings flashcards covering 10 emotions.

✔️ Feelings cards with and without feeling words.

✔️ Printable feelings prompt dice.

✔️ Full-color and black-and-white versions.

✔️ Activities suitable for drawing or play dough.

This is a digital download containing printable PDF resources. Play dough, drawing materials, and other physical supplies are not included. No physical materials will be shipped.

📌 Important Notes:

This resource includes 49 feelings mats across four Thanksgiving designs: turkey, corn, pie, and dishes.

Students can participate through drawing, sculpting, pointing, discussion, or other communication methods that work for them. Play dough is an optional activity material, not a requirement for participation.

Not all students celebrate the same holidays. Consider your students' backgrounds and preferences when choosing seasonal activities.

The goal is to help students explore emotional expressions and build awareness of how feelings can be communicated. There is no single correct way for a student to express an emotion.

This listing includes the individual Thanksgiving Feelings Play Dough and Drawing Mats resource, not the complete bundle.