{"id":3922,"date":"2025-08-11T20:03:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T20:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisakingcounselor.com\/?p=3922"},"modified":"2025-08-14T17:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T17:14:14","slug":"back-to-school-ideas-for-counselors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisakingcounselor.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/back-to-school-ideas-for-counselors\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to School Ideas For Counselors (Coloring Booklet template included)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The &#8220;Back-to-School&#8221; season is upon us and after a well-deserved and much needed summer recharge, I&#8217;m ready to be back. This post will be filled with random things that hopefully will be helpful for some fresh ideas for the start of school.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisakingcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-2.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"491\" data-attachment-id=\"3931\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/lisakingcounselor.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/back-to-school-ideas-for-counselors\/image-43\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisakingcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-2.png?fit=1152%2C726&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1152,726\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisakingcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-2.png?fit=300%2C189&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisakingcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-2.png?fit=780%2C491&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisakingcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-2.png?resize=780%2C491&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3931\" style=\"width:496px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisakingcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-2.png?resize=1024%2C645&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisakingcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-2.png?resize=300%2C189&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisakingcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-2.png?resize=768%2C484&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisakingcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-2.png?w=1152&amp;ssl=1 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"> Idea #1 &#8220;Who is Your Counselor&#8221; Coloring Booklet<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Just print this out back and front. Cut down the middle and staple. Now you have a  coloring booklet that students color and take home so that the parents also get an introduction. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teacherspayteachers.com\/Product\/Who-is-your-school-counselor-coloring-booklet-get-to-know-you-activity-14179094\" title=\"\">Click here for the coloring booklet.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Idea #2 Cozy Office Space<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether you are new or seasoned, it&#8217;s always fun to spruce up your office as a cozy space for students. You can get some ideas here from my fabulous counseling partner, Shannon Nafe. (Shout out to fabulous work wife of 14 years&#8230; whoot!). Here is a link to the cute light-up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaels.com\/product\/12-calm-corner-led-neon-sign-by-b2c-10773920?cm_mmc=PLASearch-_-google-_-18514199924-_-&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwhuHEBhBHEiwAZrvdcr1LEgBp8Xx8-o2OlyqBehz04ufYdMV6RXg68MeNNQoqBgNS4wvpCRoC6dcQAvD_BwE&amp;pla_channel=local&amp;sku=10773920&amp;channel=local&amp;local=5039&amp;dev=c&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=18514230386&amp;gbraid=0AAAAADkMxxdub4o0_gpo4p6yzQaAHDQW0\" title=\"\">calm corner sign.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yWWTY6VontU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Idea #3 Staff Graffiti Wall for staff connection<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1mG7femE9iNyUd8UuX09TajH155aorOpP\/view?usp=sharing\" title=\"\">Here are the free printouts <\/a> that you can put on some butcher paper and have some low-pressure staff engagement. Everyone has a show or book they enjoyed lately. It&#8217;s an easy way to have some &#8220;staff bonding&#8221;&#8230; and my staff readily added on to the graffiti wall while they are making copies in the mailroom or just passing through.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisakingcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"576\" data-attachment-id=\"3923\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/lisakingcounselor.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/back-to-school-ideas-for-counselors\/image-41\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisakingcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image.png?fit=1080%2C797&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1080,797\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisakingcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image.png?fit=300%2C221&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisakingcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image.png?fit=780%2C576&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisakingcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image.png?resize=780%2C576&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3923\" style=\"width:549px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisakingcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image.png?resize=1024%2C756&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisakingcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image.png?resize=300%2C221&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisakingcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image.png?resize=768%2C567&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisakingcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image.png?w=1080&amp;ssl=1 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other posts that might help you for the start of school are here:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lisakingcounselor.com\/index.php\/category\/start-of-the-year\/\" title=\"Start of the Year\">Back to School Forms<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lisakingcounselor.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/22\/counselor-open-house-for-teachers\/\" title=\"Counselor Open House for Teachers\">Teacher &#8216;Open House&#8217; to Meet the Counselor<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lisakingcounselor.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/17\/starting-the-year-intro-lesson-and-then-what\/\" title=\"Starting the Year: Intro Lesson and Then What??\">Beginning of Year<\/a> Lesson Ideas<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lisakingcounselor.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/11\/top-5-back-to-school-bulletin-boards\/\" title=\"Top 5 Back-to-School Bulletin Boards\">Bulletin Board Ideas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Back-to-School&#8221; season is upon us and after a well-deserved and much needed summer recharge, I&#8217;m ready to be back. This post will be filled with random things that hopefully will be helpful for some fresh ideas for the start of school. Idea #1 &#8220;Who is Your Counselor&#8221; Coloring Booklet Just print this out back <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lisakingcounselor.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/back-to-school-ideas-for-counselors\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ubJK-11g","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisakingcounselor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisakingcounselor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisakingcounselor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisakingcounselor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisakingcounselor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3922"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lisakingcounselor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3935,"href":"https:\/\/lisakingcounselor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922\/revisions\/3935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisakingcounselor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisakingcounselor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisakingcounselor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}