Social Emotional Learning: Bravery Activities

This Packet of Social-emotional lessons is focused on bravery. They are great for homeroom/advisory lessons or any period in the school day reserved for community building.

This bravery activities packet includes nine activities about bravery and courage. Each activity is designed to take about 15 minutes to complete. 

A summary of included activities:

• Activity 1: “Remember A Time When…” In this activity, students think about what bravery means and illustrate their ideas.

• Activity 2: “Courageous Tokens” In this activity, students Create encouragement tokens for each other.

• Activity 3: “My Hero” In this activity, students create and illustrate a hero and focus on the qualities they think a hero should have.

• Activity 4: “Dear Journal” In this activity, students think and write about a moment they felt fearful and write about self-talk that could have helped them resolve it with courage.

• Activity 5: “What Does Courage Look Like?” students draw courage in action in this activity.

• Activity 6: “Am I Being Brave?” In this activity, students discuss whether the individuals in each scenario showed bravery. 

• Activity 7: “List and Conquer” For this activity, students will list what they want to do and commit to completing something on the list during the week or month. 

• Activity 8: “Courageous Thoughts” This activity aims to support students in becoming the most courageous humans they can be by developing mantras. 

• Activity 9: “Bravery Board Game” Students work together to create and play a board game about bravery. 

Additional Information

Grade level: 5-8

Subjects: Social Emotional Learning, School Counseling, Character Education, Classroom Community

Resource Type: Cooperative learning, Printables, Instant digital download

Format: PDF

Pages: 10