Help students explore feelings in a creative, hands-on way with these Valentine's Day Feelings Play Dough and Drawing Mats! These engaging social-emotional learning activities invite children to draw or sculpt facial expressions on adorable Valentine's Day characters while practicing emotional identification and self-awareness.

Featuring hearts, trolls, cupids, and flowers, this resource combines 44 feelings mats, 40 scenario cards, feelings flashcards, and conversation dice to encourage meaningful discussions about emotions. Students can experiment with facial expressions, consider 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 Valentine's Day 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:

❤️ 44 Valentine's Day Feelings Play Dough & Drawing Mats

• 44 printable feelings mats featuring four Valentine's Day designs.
• Heart, troll, cupid, and flower 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

• Feelings flashcards featuring the Valentine's Day characters.
• Visual supports for practicing emotional vocabulary.
• Can be paired with the mats and scenario cards.
• Useful for introducing or reviewing different facial expressions and feeling words.

🎲 Feelings Conversation Dice

• Printable dice with feelings questions and 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.
• Options for individual sessions, small groups, and classroom activities.

🎒 Quick Details: Elementary Students | ❤️ 4 Valentine's Day designs | 🎨 44 feelings mats | 💬 40 scenario cards | 😊 Feelings flashcards | 🎲 Conversation dice | 🖨️ Color + B&W | Printable resource

🛍️ Bundle & Save:

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🌈 Feelings Play Dough & Drawing Mats Bundle

• Includes 10 sets of seasonal and themed feelings dough and drawing mats.
• Offers a variety of characters and themes for practicing emotional identification throughout the year.
• Includes feelings mats, scenario cards, and additional resources for extending discussions about emotions.
• Great for creating a reusable collection of hands-on SEL activities.

💝 Valentine's Day Counseling + Social Emotional Learning Bundle

• Includes eight Valentine's Day and winter-themed counseling and SEL resources.
• Features these feelings play dough and drawing mats alongside feelings puzzles, games, yoga activities, mazes, and other seasonal resources.
• Provides multiple ways to practice emotional awareness, coping skills, and social skills.

🎯 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 heart, troll, cupid, or flower 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 emotion vocabulary before students create their own facial expressions.
• Roll the feelings conversation 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:

✔️ 44 printable Valentine's Day feelings mats.

✔️ 40 printable feelings scenario cards.

✔️ Feelings flashcards.

✔️ Printable feelings conversation dice.

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

✔️ Activities suitable for drawing or play dough.

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

📌 Important Notes:

This resource includes 44 feelings mats across four Valentine's Day character designs: heart, troll, cupid, and flower.

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.

Students may draw or sculpt different facial expressions for the same emotion. The goal is to encourage emotional awareness and exploration, not to require one specific facial expression for each feeling.

This listing includes the individual Valentine's Day Feelings Play Dough and Drawing Mats resource, not the complete bundle.