Product Recommendations

Use these recommended products to enhance your individual and group work with clients.  On this page, you will find interactive games and activities that help promote healthy social-emotional development in kids and teens.  Click on the image to be taken to an external site to learn more and to view the price.  This page contains affiliate links.  This means that Mylemarks makes a small commission, at no cost to you, on purchases made through these links.

Be sure to also visit our Book Recommendations page to find helpful social-emotional children's books!
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Feelings in a Flash
Feelings Flashcard
​Feelings and Dealings
​"Includes 50 richly illustrated, open-ended family and school scenario cards and an array of 50 emotions."
" Todd Parr makes understanding feelings fun with these 20 Flash cards featuring 40 different emotions."
"These emotion cards teach children coping and social emotional learning skills."
CBT 123
"Players use memory and skill to hunt for sets of cards while answering questions in silly situations!"
Anger Slayer

​"Anger slayer board game helps kids discover easy, fun techniques to manage anger without making them feel like anger is a bad emotion."
The Talking, Feeling, & Doing Board Game
"The Talking, Feeling, & Doing Board Game evokes direct conversation and participants are eager to answer in order to accumulate chips."  
Don't Go Bananas
"Kids work to identify what triggers their emotions, analyze the beliefs they have about those situations, explore their reactions and look for ways to change their thought patterns."
Playing CBT
"Playing CBT is designed for use in individual therapists, counselors,educators and facilitators. The game enables a fun and safe means of exposure to emotions and related cognitive issues."
The Tower of Self-Esteem
"The Tower of Self Esteem is all about building up yourself and others and eliminating the need to compete to win. Helps children learn cooperation skills to work together as a team to build the tower while also helping them realize their own self-worth"
Pretend Play Multicultural Families
"A total of 32 figures. Four families of different ethnicities. Great for sand tray therapy or general play."
NoWaries

​"NoWaries is a cool game to play with family, friends, and classmates. Therapists can use it to help patients in coping with intense emotions."
Mindfulness Matters

​"Teach strategies for using mindfulness in everyday life circumstances, while MASTERY cards invite players to practice their skills by acting out mindfulness methods."
My Calming Strategies
This 20" x 30" poster is a playful and helpful way to teach children social and emotional skills. The poster is designed to help children notice, name, share and regulate their bodies and their minds. 
Mad Dragon
"This fast-paced therapeutic card game helps children control their anger in the moment, practice effective anger management techniques, understand what anger feels and looks like, avoid anger-provoking situations, express and understand their feelings, identify anger cues, and learn that they have choices about how to express anger. "
Mindful Kids
"Make any moment mindful from morning to night with 5 categories of cards, designed to fit into each part of the day. Whimsical full-color illustrations on both sides of the cards provide easy-to-follow steps for each practice."
Social Skills Board Games
"Improve children's social skills and reinforce positive character traits.  Each game has players discuss the solutions to socially challenging situations. Together the group decides upon the best action encouraging all players to communicate, listen and participate in the game. "
Temper Tamers
"Learn how to calm down and keep your cool in order to control your temper and express your feelings in positive ways. Use Temper Tamers In a Jar to promote group discussions about healthy ways to deal with anger. Individuals can also use cards to learn calming strategies for tense or difficult situations."
You Know

​"The goal of You Know is to establish high-comfort gameplay that subtly promotes further discussion on topics such as  personal values, struggles, and goals"
Chill, Chat, Challenge
"Family conversation starter game. Create a culture of trust and understanding with questions addressed to teens and adults. Share funny stories, secrets, views and dreams in a fun and playful atmosphere."
Empathy Card Game
"Developed by Lawrence E. Shapiro, Ph.D. Children who understand how other people think and feel act more appropriately and enjoy richer social relationships. This card game helps players recognize the importance of empathy, a central component of emotional intelligence. "
My Feelings Game
"280 scenarios to help kids explore and talk about feelings! 260 regulation strategies to help kids manage their feelings in socially appropriate ways! "