Calm Store: Our favourite Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) games & card sets

SEL games and cards provide a fun and structured way to help children improve emotional regulation, social skills, and decision-making. Children can use these tools to develop positive coping techniques. They’ll be able to handle all the big emotions they feel while also having the confidence to tackle any challenges.

What’s especially great is how SEL games and cards make kids more self-aware and encourage them to focus on what matters. They can see how their feelings connect to their actions. As a result, children will react in ways that help them succeed. Plus, the more relaxed and supported they feel emotionally, the more likely they are to enjoy learning.

Here are some SEL resources we recommend for schools:

Social Skills Board Games: This set uses different gameplays such as action games and sentence building games that will keep children entertained while learning about the topics of empathy, friendship, manners and emotions.
Boiling Over: A fun anger management memory game where children identify strategies for staying calm and learn to spot triggers that could lead to frustration.
6 Conflict Resolution Games: Six games that teach children how to identify conflicts, recognise emotional triggers, and find solutions.
Emotions Bingo: A twist on classic bingo that teaches children how to recognise and discuss 20 common feelings.
Cool Tools Anger Management Cards: Cool tools feature fun animal characters that teach children 42 different self-regulation strategies.
Emotion Cards for Kids: Teach children how to identify, express, and manage emotions with 20 colour-coded cards.
6 Personal Growth Games: A fantastic resource for older Primary School students, covering topics such as self-esteem, relationships, emotions and body changes.
Body Signals: This 40-card resource pack features a beautifully illustrated mob of meerkat characters, designed to help children of any age tune into their body signals and build a vocabulary to describe them.