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 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.

🧩 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.

🎭 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.

📝 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 | 🖨️ 6 color + 6 B&W maze pages | 🧩 Feelings matching puzzles | 🎭 Scenario cards | 🎲 Conversation dice | 📝 Bonus SEL worksheets | 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 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.