IMPULSE CONTROL WORKSHEETS & ACTIVITIES Self-Control Lesson Don’t Pop My Bubble

Are you looking for a fun and engaging way to teach emotional regulation, impulse control, anger management, coping skills, and self-control to children? Don’t Pop My Bubble! is a highly engaging emotional regulation workbook and digital game designed to help children understand their emotions, recognize triggers, manage impulsive reactions, and develop healthy coping strategies. Using a memorable Bubble Boss Framework, students learn that they do not need to react to every frustration, disappointment, worry, mistake, or problem. Instead, they learn how to pause, think, and make thoughtful choices.

Perfect for school counseling, individual counseling, small groups, SEL lessons, behavior intervention programs, social-emotional learning, special education, and emotional regulation groups, this resource combines interactive worksheets, discussion activities, scenario cards, reflection tasks, and a digital game to make learning meaningful and memorable.

The 5 Bubble Boss Skills:

1. Bubble Poppers – Identifying triggers, frustrations, and situations that can lead to strong emotions
2. Bubble Clues – Recognizing body clues, warning signs, and emotional signals before a reaction occurs
3. Bubble Thoughts – Exploring self-talk, assumptions, automatic thoughts, and flexible thinking skills
4. Bubble Helpers – Learning coping skills, calming tools, emotional regulation strategies, and support systems
5. Bubble Boss – Strengthening self-control, impulse control, problem-solving, and responsible decision-making

Students Will Learn How To:

• Identify emotional triggers and “Bubble Poppers”
• Recognize body clues and warning signs before emotions escalate
• Develop emotional awareness and self-regulation skills
• Strengthen impulse control and self-control
• Understand the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
• Challenge unhelpful thinking patterns using CBT strategies
• Improve flexible thinking and perspective-taking
• Use coping skills and calming strategies effectively
• Build anger management and frustration tolerance skills
• Develop problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Make thoughtful choices instead of reacting impulsively
• Increase resilience, confidence, and emotional intelligence

This Resource Includes:

• Emotional regulation activities and worksheets
• Impulse control activities and worksheets
• Anger management activities and worksheets
• CBT-based reflection activities
• Emotional awareness handouts
• Psychoeducation posters and teaching pages
• Student self-assessment questionnaires
• Scenario cards with discussion prompts
• Choice cards for identifying helpful and unhelpful responses
• Coping skills and self-regulation activities
• Bubble Boss planning pages
• Roll and Reflect game
• Group discussion questions
• Reflection and goal-setting activities
• Interactive digital game

If you’re looking for emotional regulation activities, impulse control worksheets, anger management activities, coping skills lessons, self-control activities, CBT worksheets, and social-emotional learning resources, Don’t Pop My Bubble! provides a fun, child-friendly framework that helps students become the boss of their emotions, thoughts, and choices.

Because not every problem needs a response… but every child can learn how to be a Bubble Boss!

IMPORTANT TECH NOTE

This resource requires the desktop version of Microsoft PowerPoint (Windows or Mac). It is not compatible with Google Slides, PowerPoint Online, or Chromebooks without PowerPoint installed.