Halloween sel activities

The goal of this social emotional learning (SEL) craft is to create a fun visual support for your child to use and practice their deep breathing. This is a great hands-on social emotional learning activity that involves fine motor skills, self-regulation, direction following, and creative skills. After the ghost breathing buddy is complete it can be added to your child’s calm down toolkit.

Take some time this Halloween to encourage kids to relax and find their inner peaceful pumpkins. I have three easy, fun peaceful pumpkin activities for kids to try, plus free printables to go alongside. These are great for home and the classroom, allowing you to create more of a Serene Halloween than a Scream Halloween vibe!

Would You Rather Questions make great discussion starters and writing prompts. Kids LOVE them and they are also a great exercise in critical thinking since they require students to weigh two options against each other, select the best one, and justify the answer. Here are 20 Halloween-themed Would You Rather Questions to use with your students! Happy ... Read More about Halloween Would You Rather Questions

This Halloween Witches Spell Printable is both a coloring page and a fun creative activity. We even give you the printable for free to download and use at home! Around here, Halloween is one of

Halloween activities and resources for elementary school counseling! -Counselor Keri

School counselors and elementary teachers! Need Halloween and fall SEL and school counseling activities? Get your fall themed counseling activities! This blog post leads you to 3 super fun October school counseling activities and Halloween themed SEL activities.

Practice the coping skills of mindful breathing with a spooky but cute twist. Ghost and bats. Use finger trace breathing by following the word, "BOO," as you trace your finger around the ghost. Mindful breathing is a helpful self regulation strategy to slow breathing, calm negative thoughts, and to feel more focused. Bring on the coping skills! Nice elementary school activity for Halloween. #mindfulnessactivities #breathwork #peaceful #meditationforbeginners #anxietyrelief #freebies

Pumpkin Feelings Game: A fun way to get kids talking about feelings. Adapt to use this with the Alert Program. (fast, slow, and "just right" faces and colors)

Practice feelings identification and perspective taking with the Creating Fall Feelings Worksheet. The Halloween activity includes images of the feelings sad, bored, happy, worried, and mad. Pick from the feelings and draw them onto pictures of a pumpkin, bat, cat, spider, and ghost. Nice play or art therapy activity for elementary school counseling. Build social skills by sharing your ideas with another person. Fun for fall bulletin board.