Help students build emotional awareness, practice positive self-talk, and explore feelings with these engaging Winter SEL Mazes and No-Prep Worksheets!

This winter-themed social-emotional learning resource combines six positive affirmation and feelings mazes with emotion matching puzzles, feelings scenario cards, conversation dice, and 8 bonus worksheets. Students can practice recognizing facial expressions, identifying emotions, and exploring supportive self-talk through a variety of interactive activities.

With color and black-and-white maze versions, this printable resource is easy to incorporate into individual counseling, small groups, classroom SEL lessons, calm corners, and early-finisher activities. The winter theme makes it a fun seasonal option without requiring a particular holiday celebration.

📦 What's Included:

❄️ 6 Winter Feelings & Positive Affirmation Mazes

• Six winter-themed SEL maze activities
• Six full-color maze pages also available in black-and-white versions, perfect for coloring
• Activities combining positive affirmations and feelings identification
• Opportunities for students to practice recognizing and naming emotions

💬 Positive Self-Talk Affirmations

• Affirmations incorporated into the maze activities
• Opportunities to explore supportive and encouraging self-talk
• Prompts that can lead to discussions about self-esteem and confidence
• Flexible ways for students to consider which affirmations feel helpful to them

🧩 19 Two-Piece Feelings Matching Puzzles

• 19 printable two-piece emotion matching puzzles
• Students match facial expressions with corresponding feeling words
• Hands-on opportunities to reinforce emotional vocabulary
• Can be used independently or alongside the maze activities

🎭 19 Feelings Scenario Cards

• 19 printable scenario cards for exploring emotions in everyday situations
• Opportunities to discuss how someone might feel in different circumstances
• Encourages students to consider different perspectives and emotional responses
• Can be paired with the feelings puzzles or used as discussion starters

🎲 Feelings Conversation Dice

• Printable dice for prompting conversations about emotions
• Interactive way to extend feelings identification activities
• Useful for individual counseling, small groups, and classroom SEL lessons

📝 8 Bonus No-Prep SEL Worksheets

• Additional printable social-emotional learning worksheets
• Activities to reinforce emotional awareness and feelings vocabulary
• Useful for calm corners, independent practice, counseling sessions, and early finishers

🎒 Quick Details: Elementary students | ❄️ 6 winter maze designs | 🧩 Feelings matching puzzles | 🎭 Scenario cards | 🎲 Conversation dice | 📝 8 Bonus SEL worksheets | 🖨️ Color + B&W | Printable resource

🛍️ Bundle & Save:

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❄️ Winter Counseling + SEL Bundle

• Includes seven winter-themed SEL resources
• Combines feelings activities, yoga games, puzzles, mazes, games, and additional seasonal resources
• Provides a variety of ways to practice emotional awareness, social skills, and self-regulation
• Offers flexible activities for individual counseling, small groups, and classroom SEL lessons
• This larger collection is a great option for professionals looking for a variety of ready-to-use winter counseling activities

🎯 Skills Addressed:

✔️ Identifying and naming emotions

✔️ Recognizing facial expressions and emotional cues

✔️ Building self-esteem and positive self-talk

✔️ Developing emotional vocabulary and self-awareness

✔️ Exploring how people might feel in different situations

✔️ Practicing social awareness and perspective-taking

✔️ Expressing feelings through discussion, matching, and writing

💡 Ways to Use It:

• Use the winter affirmation mazes during individual counseling sessions focused on self-esteem and supportive self-talk
• Incorporate the feelings identification mazes into classroom SEL lessons or small-group counseling
• Offer the black-and-white mazes as coloring activities for students who enjoy creative expression
• Use the two-piece feelings puzzles to practice matching facial expressions with emotion words
• Pair the scenario cards with the puzzles to explore how different situations might make someone feel
• Roll the feelings conversation dice during Lunch Bunch or small-group counseling to encourage discussion
• Add the 8 bonus worksheets to calm corners, winter SEL centers, or early-finisher activities

👩‍🏫 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 low-prep winter activities to support feelings identification, emotional vocabulary, positive self-talk, self-esteem, and social awareness.

🖨️ Format & Download:

✔️ Six full-color winter SEL mazes

✔️ Six black-and-white maze versions

✔️ Positive affirmation and feelings identification activities

✔️ Two-piece feelings matching puzzles

✔️ Feelings scenario cards

✔️ Printable feelings conversation dice

✔️ Bonus no-prep SEL worksheets

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📌 Important Notes:

• This is a digital resource with printable activities. No physical materials will be shipped