Game | Social Skills: Print + Digital SEL Game - Social Emotional

A Fun Game About Social Skills for Kids!
Looking for a fun game that will teach different social skills? If so, you’ll love WholeHearted School Counseling’s Social Skills card game! The questions and prompts invite players to explore topics like making and keeping friends, healthy ways to communicate, conversation skills, and empathy.

Ways You Can Use the Social Skills Game

- Small groups for social emotional learning support and skills practice
- Individual counseling sessions as an assessment tool
- The actual act of playing the game provides insight into children's social skills, decision-making process, frustration tolerance, level of respect for rules & boundaries, and problem-solving abilities.
- Fun for family game night!
- Community and relationship building classroom group activity

Now Available in Both Print and Digital Game Formats

You now get to choose between playing the printable card game format or the digital Google Slides™ version. So whether you are in person or need an interactive anger management game for distance learning, teletherapy, or virtual small groups, WholeHearted School Counseling got you covered!

How to Play the Social Skills Connect Game

Taking turns, players/teams choose a number based on the spot they would like to place their pawn. Then answer the corresponding question/prompt. Move game pawn to cover the number just answered. Players continue to take turns answering questions/prompts and moving their pawn pieces until the first player/team has completed a vertical, horizontal, or diagonal line of either 4 or 5 in a row.

How to Play the Printable Social Skills Game

In the spirit of other popular shedding-type card games, the player to get rid of all their cards first wins. Players try to "match" the top card in the discard pile, by either laying down the same number, color (or shape, if using the black & white set), or type of action card. If the card contains a question or prompt, that player shares their response. The player may choose to decline responding by using 1 of their 2 Pass Tickets. Action cards add fun twists and turns to the game. Actions include:

- TAKE 3: The next person in line must take 3 cards before taking their turn
- ROTATE RIGHT/ROTATE LEFT: All players pass on, or "rotate" their cards to either the left or right, so that everyone exchanges hands with each other
- GO AGAIN: Player gets to "go again", gaining an additional turn
- FREE!: Player who discards a FREE card is "free" to choose a new color (or shape ) for the discard pile and then discard an additional card based on the color (or shape ) they changed it to
- FREE+SPY!: Player who discards a FREE+SPY card can spy on one player by peeking at their cards and then is "free" to choose a new color (or shape) for the discard pile and then discard an additional card based on the color (or shape) they changed it to.