Emotions Task Boxes - SEL Activities for Hands-On Learning

Use these emotions task boxes to practice social emotional learning skills in a hands-on and interactive way! Skills targeted include matching, labeling, identifying, explaining, and inferring emotions. A total of 12 task boxes are included, each with 12 cards. These would be an ideal way for educators to target social skills and emotions to students with autism or those with emerging social skills.

Why Teach Social Emotional Learning Skills

Social emotional learning skills help kids and young adults learn how to manage their emotions, develop stronger relationships, understand their own strengths and weaknesses, develop empathy for others, and learn to make positive choices. These skills are foundational for social and emotional well-being.

Prep Work

Step-by-step directions with photos are included to make setup and prep as easy as possible! Educators will prep each task box by printing, cutting, and laminating each set. Some boxes require velcro while others only need clothespins or paper clips as markers for the correct answer. A directions page is included to make it easy for students to know what to do. The answer keys are glued or taped to the bottom so students can easy check their own answers. Just place the set in a crate, bin, or craft box and you are ready to go!

How to Use

Students can use each task box independently or with partners to practice emotions skills. Students just follow the directions included and complete each task in the box. Some tasks require matching emotion words to a photo, finding a photo to match a particular emotion, answering yes and no questions, and more.

Table of Contents

• Educator Guide

• Directions

• Task Box #1: Matching Emotions (boys)

• Task Box #2: Matching Emotions (girls)

• Task Box #3: Identifying Emotions (boys)

• Task Box #4: Identify Emotions (girls)

• Task Box #5: Labeling Emotions (kids)

• Task Box #6: Labeling Emotions (adults)

• Task Box #7: Identifying Emotions

• Task Box #8: Answering Questions (yes/no with illustrations)

• Task Box #9: Answering Questions (yes/no with photos)

• Task Box #10 Explaining Emotions

• Task Box #11: Inferring Emotions

• Task Box #12: Inferring Emotions

Note that both color and black/white options are included.

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