2nd Grade School Counseling Games

"Kind or Trash" gives a fun new outlook on discussing kind vs unkind actions for younger elementary students. While the discussion is great, this activity also gets them up and moving and looking forward to their turn! This activity had my classes engaged through the entire lesson and it created great conversation as well! The basket and recycling bin is a great visual for students as they are recognizing kind vs unkind actions.

If you are looking for other ways to bring kindness activities into your classroom, check out the links below (for all ages!):

Kindness Activity and the Impact of Our Words (Best seller!) - Middle School

Kindness Classroom "Snowball Fight" - Upper Elementary

Kindness "Hot Potato" - Elementary/Middle School

Know Your Impact - Middle School/High School

If you are looking for a fun, engaging, and interactive activity for your elementary students - this is for you!! This activity gets students working together, up and moving around, while they also practice perseverance, self-control, patience, and so much more! Add academic questions to each of the "snowballs" that they must answer to finish the race and watch all of the learning happen! So. Much. Fun!

Community building activities come in handy at the start of the year... and beyond! This activity focuses on not only working together and building community, but also allows students opportunity to practice active listening skills with a focus on listening to understand and absorb information rather than listening to respond. This activity is great for the basics of get to know you and team building questions, but could also be used to answer more academic-based questions as well. It is fun, interactive, and engaging, which offers a fun change of pace to the classroom!

Looking for other fun, engaging, and interactive resources? Check out the links below:

Kindness Hot Potato - Interactive SEL Activity

Kindness "Snowball" Fight - Interactive SEL Activity

Leadership Activity - "Jumping Ships!"

"Caught Ya Being Respectful" is a fun and engaging activity that not only gets students talking about being respectful and what that looks like, but it also encourages them to make connections of people (that they know and often admire!) that are showing respect around them as well! This activity includes everything needed for your next classroom lesson on respect, including two worksheets (Wanted Poster and Bonus Activity!) as well as different ideas that you can do with the finished products! My students LOVED this and it was fun for our teachers to see the outcome as well. We got a lot of learning and laughs out of this activity!

An interactive Growth Mindset main activity + more included! Ideas provided for multiple grade levels to maximize your use! This activity puts an overall focus on introducing or better understanding growth mindset and what it sounds like, while also providing opportunity to turn it up a notch and have students come up with their own growth mindset statements and work toward building that skill. Interactive, engaging, and makes an impact! It's a win, win, win for classrooms!! Colored and black and white copies available. Everything you need for a full lesson provided!