Help children explore feelings, positive self-talk, and self-esteem with Thanksgiving Positive Affirmation and Feelings Mazes. These printable social-emotional learning activities combine six maze designs with feelings puzzles, scenario cards, conversation dice, and eight bonus worksheets for November counseling and classroom SEL.

Children practice supportive self-talk and recognize emotional expressions as they work through the mazes. Feelings activities include choosing an emotion from two options and writing the feeling shown in a picture, giving you different ways to practice emotional vocabulary.

Use the full-color mazes or print the black-and-white versions for coloring. The matching puzzles and scenario cards extend the activity into conversations about feelings, personal experiences, and how different people might respond to the same situation.

📦 What's Included:

• 6 Full-color Thanksgiving maze designs
  
  
• 6 Black-and-white versions of the mazes for printing and coloring
  
  
• Positive self-talk affirmations
  
  
• Feeling-identification maze with 2 answer choices
  
  
• Feeling-identification maze for writing the emotion shown in a picture
  
  
• 19 Two-piece feelings matching puzzles in color and black and white
  
  
• 19 Feelings scenario cards in color and black and white
  
  
• Feelings conversation dice
  
  
• 8 Bonus SEL activity pages for calm corners, early finishers, and follow-up practice
  

Feelings Covered: Happy, angry, shocked, confused, sad, scared, proud, shy, and excited

🎒 Quick Details: Grades K-2 | 6 maze designs in color + black and white | 19 puzzles | 19 scenario cards | Conversation dice | 8 bonus pages | Printable PDF

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Thanksgiving Counseling + Social Emotional Learning 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
  
• 30 Behavior scenarios, hands-on feelings practice, Thanksgiving movement games, and scarecrow, squirrel, and corn husk coloring activities with self-reflection prompts
  

🎯 Skills Addressed:

• Identifying and naming feelings
  
  
• Recognizing facial expressions and emotional clues
  
  
• Building emotional vocabulary and self-awareness
  
  
• Exploring positive self-talk and self-esteem
  
  
• Connecting emotions with situations and personal experiences
  
  
• Social awareness and considering how others might feel
  

💡 Ways to Use It:

Use an affirmation maze during individual counseling or a small-group lesson about self-talk. Read the statements together and discuss what supportive self-talk can sound like when children are learning, making mistakes, or facing a challenge.

Choose a feelings maze for emotional vocabulary practice. Offer the two-choice activity or invite children to write the emotion shown, then talk about the expressions they notice. Black-and-white versions can also be used for coloring.

Pair the matching puzzles with the scenario cards to discuss how someone might feel and why. Roll the conversation dice to extend the discussion, and use the eight bonus worksheets in calm corners, SEL centers, or follow-up counseling activities.

👩‍🏫 Who It's For:

School counselors, social workers, psychologists, child therapists, speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, special education teachers, classroom teachers, and parents supporting emotional vocabulary, positive self-talk, and self-awareness.

Use the activities during individual sessions, Thanksgiving counseling groups, Lunch Bunch, classroom SEL, learning centers, or early-finisher time.

🖨️ Format & Download:

Printable PDF activities with full-color and black-and-white maze versions. The feelings puzzles and scenario cards also come in both color options. Print mazes and worksheets for use as activity pages, and prepare the puzzle pieces, cards, and dice for hands-on discussion activities.

📚 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.