Gratitude Lesson Plan by What Colour Is Your Dragon

This lesson plan explores how daily gratitude can improve social and emotional wellbeing. It is suitable for Year3-6 and sits well within the PSHE curriculum.

What Colour Is Your Dragon? is a trauma-informed approach to mental and emotional wellbeing which emphasises creativity, movement, and neuroscience. It is aimed at children and young people of all ages, teachers and parents.

Emotional intelligence (EQ), or the ability to be smart about emotions, is an essential skill that children need for resilience, especially in times of challenge and uncertainty. What Colour Is you Dragon provides tools to develop EQ, using a Dragon language and three coloured dragon characters. The practice of gratitude is one of the ways of feeding our ‘green dragon’ which helps keep our mental and emotional health in balance.