Help students explore feelings, empathy, and social awareness through creative, winter-themed directed drawing activities! This art therapy inspired SEL resource combines step-by-step drawing with meaningful social-emotional learning questions to encourage conversation, reflection, and creative expression.

Using the Answer It, See It, Draw It format, students respond to SEL prompts to unlock each step of three winter drawings: a hot cocoa cup, a bear, and a mitten. Each drawing includes six prompts, for a total of 18 opportunities to practice identifying emotions, recognizing social cues, showing empathy, and considering different perspectives.

With editable Google Slides, SEL pre-teaching slides, and bonus printable pages, this resource is a flexible addition to individual counseling, small-group counseling, classroom SEL lessons, and virtual sessions. Students can practice social-emotional skills while also building confidence, patience, attention to detail, and fine motor skills.

📦 What's Included:

❄️ 3 Winter SEL Directed Drawing Activities

• Step-by-step drawing instructions revealed as students answer SEL questions to unlock the steps to create a hot cocoa cup, a bear, and a mitten.
• Six prompts per drawing, for 18 prompts total.

💬 18 Feelings & Social Awareness Prompts

• Identifying what someone might be feeling based on their words, body language, and facial expressions.
• Recognizing how different emotions might look.
• Exploring empathy and ways to show care for others.
• Considering another person's perspective.
• Practicing social awareness and social-emotional reflection.

✏️ Editable Google Slides Edition

• Editable version for adding your own questions or prompts.
• Customize the activities to address specific counseling goals or classroom topics.
• Use the winter drawings to reinforce other social-emotional or academic skills.
• Reuse the activities with different questions for individual students or groups.

💡 SEL Pre-Teaching Slides

• Growth mindset and learning through practice.
• Grit and perseverance.
• Patience when learning something new.
• Coping skills for managing frustration.
• Accepting mistakes as part of the learning process.

🖨️ Bonus Printable Pages

• Additional printable pages to accompany the digital directed drawing activities.
• Options for incorporating drawing and written activities into in-person sessions.
• Flexible materials for students who prefer working on paper.

🎒 Quick Details: Grades 1–3 | ❄️ 3 winter drawings: hot cocoa cup, bear + mitten | 💬 18 SEL prompts | ❤️ Feelings + empathy + social awareness | ✏️ Editable Google Slides | 💡 Pre-teaching slides | 🖨️ Bonus printables | Digital + print

🛍️ Bundle & Save:

❄️ Winter SEL Directed Drawing Bundle

• Features 10 winter-themed drawings and 60 SEL prompts including a travel cocoa cup, snowman, snowflake, tree, pinecone, sweater, bear, penguin, mitten, and hot cocoa mug.
• Covers feelings, social awareness, communication, problem-solving, CBT concepts, and coping skills.
• Includes editable editions and bonus printable pages.
• Features a bonus travel cocoa cup directed drawing activity not included in the individual sets.

🌈 SEL Directed Drawing Growing Bundle

• Includes a growing collection of 60 directed drawings with over 400 prompts.
• Features activities for feelings, empathy, communication, problem-solving, coping skills, and other SEL concepts.
• Includes editable versions and bonus printable resources.
• Offers engaging art-based activities for counseling sessions and classroom SEL lessons throughout the school year.

🎯 Skills Addressed:

✔️ Identifying and naming emotions

✔️ Recognizing facial expressions, body language, and social cues

✔️ Developing empathy and showing care for others

✔️ Building social awareness and perspective-taking

✔️ Practicing self-awareness and emotional reflection

✔️ Developing patience, perseverance, and growth mindset

✔️ Building confidence, focus, and flexibility when making mistakes

💡 Ways to Use It:

• Use the hot cocoa cup drawing during individual counseling sessions to introduce feelings identification and social awareness.
• Incorporate the bear and mitten drawings into counseling lessons focused on empathy and perspective-taking.
• Present the activities on a Smartboard and invite students to answer SEL questions before revealing each drawing step.
• Use the pre-teaching slides to introduce growth mindset, patience, coping skills, and accepting mistakes.
• Customize the editable Google Slides prompts to address specific counseling goals or classroom learning objectives.
• Incorporate the drawings into winter classroom SEL lessons, Lunch Bunch sessions, or creative learning centers.
• Use the bonus printable pages for students who prefer drawing on paper or as follow-up 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 first through third grade.

This resource is especially useful for professionals looking for creative, art-based ways to support feelings identification, empathy, social awareness, perspective-taking, and emotional expression.

🖨️ Format & Download:

✔️ Three digital winter directed drawing activities.

✔️ Eighteen SEL prompts, with six prompts per drawing.

✔️ Editable Google Slides edition.

✔️ SEL pre-teaching slides.

✔️ Bonus printable pages.

✔️ PDF with access to the Google Slides resource.

✔️ Options for individual counseling, small groups, classroom lessons, and screen sharing.

This is a digital download. Google Slides access is provided through the included PDF. No physical materials will be shipped.

📌 Important Notes:

This resource includes three winter drawings: hot cocoa cup, bear, and mitten. Students answer six SEL prompts to reveal the steps for each drawing.

The editable edition allows you to replace the included prompts with questions suited to your students' needs.

Students can participate through drawing, discussion, pointing, or other communication methods that work for them. Drawings do not need to look identical, and mistakes can be approached as opportunities for flexibility and creative problem-solving.

This is an art therapy inspired educational resource, not a formal art therapy treatment protocol.

This listing includes Winter SEL Directed Drawing Set 1 only, not the complete Winter Directed Drawing Bundle.