With the start of the World Cup looming, we bring you some new fun football themed resources as well as an interactive activity to get your children practising the techniques to good mental health every day!
This week we have more fun mental health learning activities and resources for primary school age children. Our mental health activities are fun, interactive and engaging and help your children learn how to identify and manage their thoughts and emotions. Let's see what's new below...
Which Hat Are You Wearing Today? - Learn the techniques to good mental health! - In this fun activity each hat represents a different technique of good mental health. Cut out the hats and each day ask your child to pick a hat for the day - can they think of ways to build that factor or technique into their day?
Zones of Regulation Football - The Calm Pitch - Emotion / Self Regulation Activity - With the world about to go a little football mad - you can now download our Zones of Regulation Football from the Be Happy Hub! This activity combines the zones of regulation with football, helping children to identify their emotions and think about how they can stay in the green zone (in the game) using the rules of football.
🟢 The Calm Pitch is our green zone
🔵 The Bench is our blue zone or rest area
🟡 Yellow Cards are our yellow zone
🔴 Red Cards are our red zone
Use football to help your child learn about the zones of regulation and what each zone means. For example, if they get a red card, this means they are sent off the calm pitch and need to do a calming technique. If they get a yellow card, this is a caution - what can they do to ensure they can stay in the game? If they are on the bench, what can they do to get their energy up and back onto the pitch? We've included a How To with this activity, but we think you could use this lots of different ways!
My Self Esteem Rocket - Confidence Boosting Activity for Kids - Let your child's self esteem sky rocket with the self esteem rocket! We had a request for more space-themed resources, and the self esteem rocket is the result. The more nice things your child can write about themselves the higher the rocket will soar!
My Safe Place - Where does your child feel safe? Who is it with? What do they keep there? Is it a designated space in your house, or perhaps it's at a grandparents' house? This mindful activity gets your child thinking about where they feel the most safe in the world and asks them to use their senses to describe what it's like.
Football Feelings - Football Themed Emotion Literacy Worksheet - Some more World Cup resources for the classroom and at home! We all know that football is an extremely emotional game, we've put some of the most common emotions that your child might feel when they watch or play football - can they guess what they are?
Football Emotion Flashcards - Emotion Literacy Flashcards for Kids - 16 emotion football-themed flashcards, why not use these throughout the World Cup to ask your child or class how they are feeling today?
Emotion Pairs - A fun emotion literacy game for younger minds this week, emotion pairs is a card game that encourages your child to match the emotion card with the word card. Simply download, print, cut out and match!
Football Breathing - We love a good breathing exercise and this one is all about getting the football to the goal! Have your child take a slow deep breath in as far as they can go, then, trace the line with their finger from the football to the goal as they slowly breathe out. Can they count to four as they breathe out and trace the line? Optional - why not print this resource twice and cut out the footballs from one page, then your child can physically move each football to the goal using their finger?
That's it for this week's resources! What would you like to see on the Hub next week?
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