Silly Goose Bulletin Board Social Emotional Learning SEL Calm Down Activity
HONK your way to calmer choices! 🪿😂 Calm Down Silly Goose! is a fun, hands-on social-emotional learning activity designed to help children explore simple calming strategies while creating an adorable classroom display.
Students can help Silly Goose calm down by dressing him in different calming outfits, then create their own goose footprint to show a strategy that helps them feel calm and regulated.
The set includes three themed calming outfits:
💙 Cozy & Calm Goose
Silly Goose gets cozy when he needs some quiet time! Includes a blue cozy sweater, fluffy goose slippers, warm cocoa mug, book and beanie.
❤️💙 Move Your Body Goose
Sometimes Silly Goose needs to MOVE! This sporty outfit includes a zip-up jacket, running shoes, headphones, water bottle and sporty headband.
💚💛 Breathe & Reset Goose
Time for a reset! This sensory-inspired outfit includes a comfy green hoodie, soft slip-on shoes, yellow bucket hat, sensory squeeze ball, and bubbles with a wand.
What's Included
- Large Silly Goose teacher/display template
- Silly Goose templates in colour and blackline
- Cozy & Calm dress-up outfit
- Move Your Body dress-up outfit
- Breathe & Reset dress-up outfit
- Smaller student-sized goose and outfit pieces for individual dress-up activities
- CALM DOWN SILLY GOOSE! bulletin board lettering
- Large goose footprint templates
- Colour footprint pages for students to add their name and calming strategy
- Blackline footprint templates for students to colour, draw and personalise
- Student name/display pieces
- Colour and blackline student image pieces
- Teacher instructions
Ways to Use This Resource
Use the large goose as a whole-class SEL display and introduce the outfits as different ways Silly Goose can regulate himself. Students can discuss which strategies might help in different situations before choosing strategies that work for them.
Children can then decorate a goose footprint, add their name, and draw or add a picture showing what helps them calm down. Put the finished footprints around your giant Silly Goose for a personalised classroom display.
The smaller goose pieces can also be used for an individual cut-and-paste activity, giving students their own Silly Goose to dress.
Perfect for SEL lessons, calm-down corners, self-regulation activities, counselling groups, special education classrooms, early elementary classrooms, back-to-school displays and classroom community activities.
Because sometimes even a Silly Goose needs a minute. 🪿💙
