Body mapping cards and matching recovery mat
What is ‘body mapping’?
Body mapping cards are a useful tool used to help children to:
- name their emotions
- understand their emotions
- how these emotions affect their bodies
- strategies they can use to get back to a comfortable state
Quite often a child is showing distressed behaviour because they don’t understand their emotions or how to manage these. This can be very overwhelming.
Do these cards work?
Yes! There is lots of research and evidence into the success of teaching children how to understand and name their emotions. We have found emotion resources an invaluable tool in the classroom and for sending home to support parents. These cards work best when modelled frequently by the adults and the matching vocabulary is used consistently.
The Recovery Mat: (matching resource)
After a behavioural incident in the classroom, it’s important for the children involved to have a recovery meeting with an adult to talk through the event. In this meeting you can discuss what strategies they could use in the future to prevent a repeat incident and how to amend the current incident. This recovery mat is an A4 printable which is easy to grab and gives you both visuals and discussion prompts to make your recovery meeting as successful as possible.
Each download comes with a how-to-use guide and includes FAQs relevant to each resource.
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Please note: this resource and all hand-drawn illustrations are covered by the Teaching Resource Licence. This means you may only provide the licensed material to those students you teach in any medium or format for the purpose of educating them and/or their private study.
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