Elementary counseling activities

Group counseling activities and ideas for working with kindergarteners - though all the ideas work great for all elementary grades!

Quick, fun, no-prep SEL lesson activities that are perfect for before and after breaks or any time you need an extra fun guidance lesson

5 Creative School Counseling Activities Using Candy - Confident Counselors

Make a worry monster! Help kids manage worries with this worry group counseling curriculum activity. These worry activities are perfect for elementary school counseling groups. These worry lessons for kids will help students understand worry and build coping skills to deal with their worry. These activities are perfect for individual counseling sessions or small group counseling sessions to help kids manage worry. -Counselor Keri

First Session of Individual Counseling With Kids - The Responsive Counselor

Try these 10 SEL activities for upper elementary classrooms. Don't stress about adding social emotional learning into your day.

Empathy in STEM: Use these empathy and STEM task cards to help students identify barriers that others face and use this information to create innovations that create access for everyone! These empathy activities are perfect for classroom guidance lessons, small group counseling activities, counselor-science partnerships, or homeschool STEM activities! STEM in counseling, STEM activities, STEM task cards that are perfect for elementary school counseling. -Counselor Keri

Bring Social Emotional Learning into your classroom with just 15 minutes a day! SEL is such an important topic and it doesn't have to be difficult to fit into your classroom daily schedule. Check out the blog post to learn more on how you can teach SEL to your elementary students in a fun and engaging way within just 15 minutes!

Building relationships with your grade 4 5 6 students should be your number one priority for a productive and engaging back to school class.

Looking for a great classroom community building or empathy activity for your classroom guidance lessons? You'll love this I am Human activity!

Are you a School Counselor, Psychologist, or Speech Pathologist who has a “LUNCH BUNCH” or other type of Social Skills Counseling Group? Have you been using regular old “Board Games” in the hopes of making your lunch bunch fun, but found that they really aren’t helping to teach specific “Social Skills” that your students may need, such as conversational skills, initiating play, and improving manners? Sure, your students are practicing turn-taking and sportsmanship, etc.

Looking for back to school Growth Mindset activities? I have compiled my very favorite Growth Mindset activities and read alouds for you to use for back to school or anytime during the school year!

Here are some great ideas from Big Life Journal if you are feeling strong emotions in public:

Looking for The Cool Bean activities to use in your classroom guidance lessons or small group counseling activities? You'll love these easy activities!

Try my End of School Year Summertime Counseling Activity with your elementary students. My resource supports social emotional learning, and can be used as an individual or group counseling activity. This is a great way to help your students understand the connection between choices and consequences.

A couple of years ago, I moved out of my school counseling office and packed up all of the things I had bought with my own money over the previous seven

There's never enough time in school counseling. Never enough time to plan and prepare, never enough time to meet with students, never enough time to

Part of my 3rd grade's problem solving unit, after we tackle conflict resolution, is to identify problems inside vs. outside of our control. As many, many

School counseling activities for the book, The Bad Seed. Perfect for classroom guidance lessons, small group counseling, and individual counseling! #counselorkeri

Helping Students with Self Control