Connecting Thoughts and Feelings CBT Print and Digital Counseling Activity

This is a fun CBT activity for kids to practice and understand the cognitive-behavioral therapy concept that their thoughts influence their feelings. This digital and print activity will help kids understand how their thoughts and feelings are connected. It is a great introduction to impactful CBT concepts.

Kids will learn how helpful thoughts and unhelpful thoughts impact their emotions and discuss the connections between their thoughts and feelings with this Flower Feelings and Thought Pots game.

There are various ways you can use the printable version, so you can differentiate this to meet the unique needs of your students.

Activities in This Children's CBT Set: ✨

✅ Printable activities and a digital Google Slides activity.

✅ Match the feeling flower with the correlating thought pot.

✅ Sort the pots into helpful and unhelpful thought piles, using the two seed packet visuals.

✅ When unhelpful thoughts are identified, change them into more helpful thoughts.

✅ Use the larger pots to write down thoughts to match the feeling flower picked.

✅ Have students write down thoughts on the larger pots and then sort them into helpful and unhelpful piles, using the two seed packet visuals.

✅ Match the feelings flower visuals to the shovel feeling word.

You'll get both black and white and color versions. The Google Slides version of this resource is great for projecting on a smartboard or can be used in telehealth sessions or with distance learning.

Social-emotional learning competencies addressed include self-awareness and self-management.

Who This Resource Is For: ✨

➜ Counselors, social workers, psychologists, speech therapists, occupational therapists, and special education teachers who are working on self-awareness, emotional identification, self-regulation, and social awareness skills

➜ Teachers, homeschooling parents, and other educators who want to bring more social-emotional learning into their classrooms and homes

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