This week, we're all about fairytales! From Disney to folklore, we're using the power of fairytale magic to get your children thinking and talking about their mental health.
We're coming to the end of Children's Mental Health Week 2023 and we want to inspire a bit of magic, we're here to show that mental health and emotional learning can be fun! So we've given our emotional literacy resources and mental health resources a fairytale makeover. Fairytales are a place where anything is possible and allow us to use and inspire our imaginations...
Zones of Regulation - Fairytale Edition
We've given the Zones of Regulation a magical makeover, bringing fairytales to the zones. The Zones of Regulation is a curriculum used in many schools and youth groups, based around the use of four colours to help children self-identify how they're feeling and learn how to self regulate. These four worksheets are full of information to help your children identify and manage their feelings, each sheet provides space to write about what they can do should they find themselves in any particular zone.
Frozen How Do You Feel Today Worksheet/Play-dough Mat
This Elsa emotion activity can be used in a variety of different ways - you can ask your child to draw Elsa's facial expression to show how they are feeling, or you could laminate and use with a marker pen or play-dough. A fun way to ask any Frozen-lover how they feel!
Princess Emotion Matching Game
Princesses, just like us, have many different emotions - can your child match the picture card to the word card? Optional - can your child think of a story for why our princess is feeling each emotion?
Mirror, Mirror On The Wall...
We all know the story of the mirror on the wall that shows the fairest of them all, but in this activity, we're challenging your child to think about how they see themselves versus how others see them. Ask your child to draw themselves in the first mirror, then have them ask someone they love to describe them and draw themselves again in the mirror on the right. Has the image changed?
In My Castle
Imagine a big castle on a hill,
This is a safe space for you to fill,
With things you love that bring you joy,
People, pets, objects or toys!
When you next feel sad or low,
You'll have a place that you can go,
Just close your eyes and open the door,
And nothing can upset you anymore.
In My Castle is a wonderful activity to help children imagine a place to escape. This castle is filled with all the things that they love and helps them to feel safe. Plus we've included some fun facts about how castles kept their inhabitants safe from attack. When life gets a bit too much, they can close their eyes and imagine retreating to the safety of their very own castle.
This week's FREE resource! - For Mailing List subscribers only
This is my Happily Ever After
We've stuck with the fairytale theme for this week's free resource - we want your children to think about what happiness is and what their happily ever after looks like.
Directions: What does happiness mean to your child? We all have our own different versions of what happiness is. Have your child think about this for a moment and write down their thoughts. Then, using this, ask them to write their very own happily ever after. In this exercise, there are no limits, let your child dream and use their imagination - this is a fairytale after all, and anything goes!
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What else is new?
Pack Away My Worries
Pack up those worries and send them far, far away in this new activity. Have your child write their worries and pop them in their worry case! Fill in the tag and send the worry case on its way.
Things That Make Me Smile
This activity is sure to make you smile! Did you know that smiling can trick the brain into feeling happy? Try it when you next feel low and it may bring some temporary relief from any overwhelming emotions.
In this resource we want your children to write or draw all the things that make them smile! Once they’ve done this, they can track their smile on the Smiley Meter - how big are they smiling? We’ve also included a Smiley Factsheet full of wonderful facts all about smiling and how it helps us, from boosting our immune system to connecting with others, smiling is great for our mental health!
Self Love Meter
This confidence-based activity is perfect for Valentine's Day. Have your child track their self-love on our meter, if their arrow is towards the lighter pink end of the spectrum, have them complete the activities. Afterwards, ask them to re-draw their arrow on the self love meter - has their confidence improved?
Brain Emotion Flashcards
Also new for our younger minds are our brain emotions flashcards - bringing learning about one of our most important organs to the front of their minds! These cards remind young children that are brains are responsible for our all our feelings - aren't brains amazing!?
Self-Love Hearts
This new resource focuses on the most important love of all; self-love. Ask your child to write some love-hearts to themselves! You could even cut them out and display them in their room or in your classroom.
If you're a paying member you can access all the above activities now in the Be Happy Hub. Now a member, you can sign up from just £1.99 here.
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