Help children recognize, name, and explore emotions with Thanksgiving Feelings Matching Puzzles. This printable social-emotional learning resource includes 60 differentiated, self-correcting puzzles featuring scarecrows, turkeys, and pie for counseling sessions, small groups, and classroom SEL centers.

Choose two-piece puzzles to match facial expressions with feeling words, or use three-piece puzzles to connect the expressions and words with matching scenarios. The two formats let you focus on emotional vocabulary or extend the conversation to how someone might feel in a situation.

A feelings matching game, conversation dice, and eight bonus activity pages provide additional ways to practice and discuss emotions. Use the puzzles together in a lesson, rotate the designs through November centers, or add the bonus pages to a calm corner for follow-up practice.

📦 What's Included:

• 30 Two-piece puzzles matching feeling faces with emotion words
  
  
• 30 Three-piece puzzles matching scenarios, feeling faces, and emotion words
  
  
• 3 Thanksgiving designs with 10 two-piece and 10 three-piece puzzles per design
  
  
• Self-correcting puzzle pieces
  
  
• Feelings conversation dice to extend and deepen discussions
  
  
• Feelings matching game
  
  
• 8 Bonus printable activity pages for calm corners and SEL practice
  

Feelings Covered: Angry, confused, excited, happy, proud, sad, scared, shocked, shy, and worried

🎒 Quick Details: Grades K-2 | 60 self-correcting puzzles | 2-piece + 3-piece formats | 10 feelings | Matching game + conversation dice | 8 bonus pages | Printable PDF

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Thanksgiving Social Emotional Learning Activity Bundle includes:

• 8 Thanksgiving and fall resources: feelings puzzles, positive affirmation and feelings mazes, an expected behavior game, yoga, creative movement, and three color-by-code sets
  
• Scarecrow, squirrel, and corn husk coloring activities with feelings prompts, plus digital and printable activities for emotional awareness, social skills, positive self-talk, and movement
  

🎯 Skills Addressed:

• Identifying and naming 10 feelings
  
  
• Recognizing emotional expressions and building feelings vocabulary
  
  
• Connecting emotions with situations and personal experiences
  
  
• Self-awareness and emotional expression
  
  
• Social awareness and considering how others might feel
  
  
• Matching visual clues, emotion words, and scenarios
  

💡 Ways to Use It:

Introduce the two-piece puzzles during individual counseling or a small-group lesson. Name the feelings together, notice the facial expressions, and invite children to share examples of times they have felt that way.

Use the three-piece puzzles to connect feelings with situations. Read the scenarios together and discuss the clues that help children choose a match. Roll the conversation dice to extend the discussion and explore their own experiences.

Rotate the three designs through classroom SEL centers, Lunch Bunch, early-finisher activities, or November counseling groups. Review with the matching game, and use the eight bonus pages for calm corners or follow-up lessons.

👩‍🏫 Who It's For:

School counselors, social workers, psychologists, child therapists, speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, special education teachers, classroom teachers, and parents teaching feelings identification, self-awareness, and social awareness.

Use the differentiated puzzle formats with children who are learning emotion words or practicing connecting feelings to everyday situations.

🖨️ Format & Download:

Printable PDF resource with two-piece and three-piece puzzle formats. Print and cut the pieces for hands-on matching activities; the self-correcting designs support checking the matches. Includes the matching game, conversation dice, and eight bonus pages.

📚 More Fall Resources:

Read Fun Fall Counseling and Social Emotional Learning Activities for seasonal ideas using feelings puzzles, games, and other counseling activities.

📌 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.