This guide offers 50 coping skills and activities to help kids deal with stress, difficult emotions, and challenges in a healthy way. It provides a variety of tools including deep breathing, visualization, exercise, art/crafts, spending time in nature, talking to someone, practicing gratitude, and more. The guide includes printable posters, worksheets, activity cards, and other resources that can be used by counselors, teachers, parents, and kids.
It focuses on teaching positive, constructive ways for kids to manage emotions and challenges, which can build their resilience, self-regulation, and wellbeing. The coping skills target different needs like physical, mental, creative, and social, allowing kids to find what works best for them. Structured lesson plans and interactive activities engage kids in learning and practicing the skills. Printables like posters reinforce the skills and provide easy references. It’s designed in a kid-friendly way that makes learning coping fun and approachable. Overall, this comprehensive resource provides practical tools to help kids build healthy coping strategies, with a variety of methods and materials that make it easy to use in school and home settings.
Contents:
- Ways to Use
- 8.5″ x 11″ Coping Skills for Kids Posters
- Lesson Plan
- Healthy Coping Tools Collage Cards
- My Coping Toolbox
- What Can Help Worksheet
- Yes, Hmm, Nah Sorting Page
- My Coping Strategies Survival Guide
- What Helps Me Checklist
- Fortune Teller
- Sorting Cards (color frames)
- Sorting Cards (ink-friendly)
- Credits and Terms of Use
- 18″ X 24″ Coping Skills for Kids Posters (zip file)
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