Summer Emotions Sorting Mats | SEL Speech Therapy SPED Autism
Product Description
Summer Emotions Sorting Mats | 6 Emotion Mats with Summer Visuals
This summer-themed emotions sorting set teaches students to identify and sort emotions through engaging summer visuals. The set includes 6 unique sorting mats — one for each of the following emotions: Happy, Sad, Excited, Surprised, Crabby, and Frustrated. Each mat features summer imagery including sun, shark, crab, popsicle, pineapple, and watermelon.
Perfect for SEL lessons, speech therapy, special education, and end-of-year emotional support during the summer transition.
★ Perfect for: Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs), Special Education Teachers, School Counselors, Autism Classrooms, SEL Lessons, Self-Contained Classrooms, Resource Rooms, Paraprofessionals, ABA Therapists, Early Childhood, PreK, Preschool, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, and 2nd Grade
6 Emotion Sorting Mats Included:
- 😊 Sorting Happy
- 😢 Sorting Sad
- 🤩 Sorting Excited
- 😲 Sorting Surprised
- 🦀 Sorting Crabby (love the crab connection!)
- 😤 Sorting Frustrated
Summer Visuals Throughout:
Sun, shark, crab, popsicle, pineapple, and watermelon — fun summer imagery that students will love!
Skills Targeted:
- Identifying emotions
- Emotional vocabulary
- Social emotional learning (SEL)
- Classification and categorization
- Visual discrimination
- Empathy and perspective taking
- Emotional regulation
- Receptive and expressive language
- Following directions
- Independent work skills
How to Use These Emotions Sorting Mats:
Students look at each picture and sort it onto the correct emotion mat. Use in:
- Independent workstations and centers
- Small group SEL lessons
- Language therapy groups
- 1:1 instruction
- Counseling check-ins
- Morning meetings
- Summer school activities
- End-of-year SEL lessons
Built-in differentiation: To decrease difficulty, give students fewer mats (2-3 emotions at a time). To increase difficulty, give them all 6 mats to sort simultaneously.
If your students enjoy these activities, there are many more sorting activities in my collection, you can find some of them at the links below:
More Hands-On Sorting Activities
For more hands-on spring, summer or ocean themed activities, please see the links below:
