Learning With Leaflings: An SEL learning game for little kids
Welcome to Learning With Leaflings!
In this role-playing game made for young adventurers and problem solvers, your players will take on the role of Leaflings, little plant peoples who inhabit a town in the middle of an enchanted forest! This town, like all others, will have challenges that your characters must face together, and, in the process, will teach about core social-emotional skills for pre-K kids. Players will grow their skills just like the leaves from the top of their noggins to use for future adventures and help each other see the importance of paying attention to feelings, listening, taking a pause, and more… all while having fun telling a story together.
Made for pre-K SEL teaching
Learning With Leaflings was made to align with a particular pre-K social-emotional learning curriculum to assist with immersive demonstrations of core concepts that appeared throughout the curriculum. This was co-authored between Alex G., the teacher using the material, and Steph from TTRPGkids.
While intended for use in a particular class, this material can also be used for other classes or for at home use, as you see fit, so we decided to publish it for general use!
Created using The Classroom Ready TTRPG Toolkit
This game was created using the TTRPGkids Classroom Ready TTRPG Toolkit which you can find here and use to outfit your own games for easier use by educators!
![Classroom Considerations
General accessibility - No prior experience with TTRPGs required
Safety tools - Provided on page 7 with the game + link to additional resources
Session time - approximately 30 minutes per session
Class size - 1 facilitator required and may work as a 1:1 session or as a teacher with a larger class
Grade level - Pre-K (ages 3-5)
Rules accessibility - explained throughout the game in stages and kept on a more yes/no basis; no math required with gameplay focused on storytelling
Content - “G” equivalent rating
Student reflection - n/a due to age range
Educational goals - Teach students about social-emotional concepts in an immersive, in-practice scenario. Curriculum aligns with specific teacher/classroom goals but may be outfitted and used for other classroom situations as well.
Evaluation criteria - n/a due to age range
Facilitator resources - Posted as free/PWYW for easy access
Facilitator prep - 15 minutes to read through material prior to class plus 15-30 minutes to print and arrange handouts (for the first session only as they will be reused for future sessions).
Preparation
To play Learning With Leaflings, you will need the following materials:
[1] facilitator
[1 to 20] players (works best with a class, but may work solo)
[1] 6-sided die (jumbo sized/ dice roller apps help avoid choking hazards)
[1] printed character sheet for each player
[1] printed town tree for the class
[varies] cut out leaves for personal and tree skills](https://www.ttrpgkids.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Learning-With-Leaflings-1.png)
PWYW + Earnings Support Libraries
Learning With Leaflings is pay-whay-you-want (PWYW) so teachers can have access to the material. Any donations recieved for this project will be put towards covering printing and shipping costs for TTRPGkids books to be sent to support The American Library Association’s (ALA) Games and Gaming Roundtable (G&GRT) International Games Month (IGM) – this is a yearly event where publishers and creators send games to libraries in order to support their gaming collections. Every $15 raised will send one physical copy of Making a Tabletop RPG for YOUR Particular Kid to a library during the next IGM event.
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