Kindergarten and 1st Grade Social Emotional Learning Activities

Make a mood meter with your child to help them recognize and share their feelings.

In this activity, your child will have an opportunity to discuss what they like about themselves, and they will design a digital or physical poster that displays their talents, what they like, and images that describe themselves.

The power of gratitude is endless! Research shows that cultivating a gratitude practice can gratitude strengthen relationships, improve physical and emotional well-being, deepen empathy skills, and improve self-esteem. With such wide-spread benefits, how

A great way to cultivate awareness, focus and attention in the present is through movement. Mindful movement can also decrease stress and anxiety and increase calm.

In this fun activity, your child will learn the difference between facts and opinions. They will design cards for a matching game that they create and play!

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will go on a nature scavenger hunt to look for patterns in nature and appreciate how amazing nature is.

Understanding emotions can be a helpful tool for self-regulation. In this social emotional learning activity, your child will practice identifying different emotions and explore how they connect with various gestures and facial expressions.

In this activity, your child will learn and teach someone else five finger breathing, and they will also draw a picture of their experience.

In this activity, your child will consider the meaning of "culture" and what comprises their family's culture. They will draw pictures of aspects of their family's culture, then choose an aspect of it to explore further.

With school, home, and activities in between, life can sometimes feel chaotic to kids. Help your child learn how to stop and relax with handmade peace rocks.

Do you need to help your students chill out? This activity will help your students learn how to breathe deeply, self-soothe, and calm themselves down.

Children will learn about diversity, hear a story that reflects appreciation and acceptance of differences, and connect with a pen pal in another country through writing and drawing a letter.

Caring for ourselves and others can build connections and a greater sense of love. In this activity, children reflect on what it means to be caring and to show kindness to others through drawing and performing a kind act of their choosing.

Deep relaxation is a great way to create the conditions for learning by helping students let go of tension and worry.

In this activity, you and your child will read a story about heartfulness, practice heartfulness by sending kind wishes to others, and draw pictures of those you both love and care for (such as family members, friends, or pets).

In this activity, your child will be given images that portray different perspectives or emotions. Your child will practice empathy by coloring and drawing what each person may have been thinking or feeling.

Help your kindergartener learn to manage a telephone with this homemade keyboard that also helps kids practice letters and numbers.

How often do we eat with awareness and really taste our food and think about where the food came from? Mindful eating is a great way to practice mindfulness infused with gratitude and appreciation for our food.

Ensuring that what we say is truthful, helpful, inspiring, necessary, and kind takes practice! In this social emotional learning activity, your child will set a goal for themselves to THINK before they speak.

In this activity, your child will learn the benefits of positive thinking. They will write positive statements about themselves and create a gratitude board.

Ringing a quiet bell is also a great way to support focus and bring kids into the present moment so they can be aware of what they are experiencing inside.

Children will practice mindfulness through a short guided practice, reflect on the practices that support peace, and then will build a "peace garden."

In this activity, your child will learn about how focusing on positive feelings, like love and peace, helps these feelings grow. They will also decorate pots and plant seeds as a reminder of this.

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will create a goal board and practice setting one goal for an assignment or task and the steps they will need to achieve it.

Caring for ourselves and others can build connections and a greater sense of love. In this activity, your child will discuss what it means to be caring and will demonstrate care through drawing and by performing two caring and kind deeds.

Geared toward kindergarten and first grade learners, The Weather Inside is a fun activity to help help children understand and process their emotions in a healthy way.

In this activity, your child will learn and practice mindfulness by using their senses to focus on one thing at a time.

In this activity, your child will discuss how to stand up for others, and they'll use pipe cleaners to design a symbol that reminds them to stand up for others.

In this activity, kids will create a peace corner in their bedroom or home and reflect on ways they may use their peace corner through drawing and discussion.

In this activity, you and your child will practice taking a movement or calming break during homework or when feeling tired. Then, your child will write about and draw what the experience was like for them.