Here are some jigsaw templates for a huge display. The pieces fit together horizontally and vertically. You can do one for each member of your class or group.
This is a lovely class, group or one to one activity for the return to school. It is suitable for all age groups to do.
This ‘Feel the Feels’ Anger resource pack includes the following resources:
Anger workbook – 19 pages
Anger diary -Cover sheet, instructions and One sheet that can be printed as many times as needed
1-5 Scale – print, laminate
Mobile phone emotion register – print and laminate
These resources are suitable for older children KS2/3/4 – aged approximately 9 to 16.
This is a pack of ways for pupils to feedback on how their sessions went. Brilliant to show evidence of impact for any impending OFSTED visits. These will also help you inform future planning and find out what your pupil has learnt.
It is so important to assess your work constantly to ensure you are doing the absolute best for your pupils.
Included in the pack
8 different ways to feedback from worksheets, to speech bubbles to rolling a die. Girl version and boy version available where relevant.
Jigsaw Resource Pack
Includes:
5 banners
an example lesson plan
10 plain coloured jigsaw pieces
10 coloured jigsaw pieces with vocabulary
15 jigsaw templates and suggestions list on how to use them
This is a huge pack of resources for children to learn how to rid themselves of negative thoughts through mindfulness type exercises. There are 3 zipped files included in the download due to the size of the resource.
The children are asked to think about an animal, then to stop thinking about the animal. This will demonstrate how it is difficult to stop thinking about something just by telling yourself not to think about it. They are then asked to do an exercise to demonstrate how that will rid them of the animal. If the animal comes back they do the exercise again.
There are:
24 A5 cards to print
24 Powerpoint shows for each exercise
24 PDFs of the Powerpoint shows
Supporting worksheets – 3 main sheets but offered with colour, black and white, with and without lines.
There are:
40 different Mandalas, one to a page with a lovely quote to discuss. Print these as posters, individual worksheets or as a booklet.
20 Postcards -A5 Size – I thought doing them any smaller would make colouring in a bit too difficult.
Express yourself Art Doodling is a series of prompts for drawing. Children get so much from drawing. It is a way of self expression and self exploration. Children relax when drawing and are much more open to talking about their feelings.
This booklet can be printed as A4 and stapled together or as A3 to give children more room for drawing. You could also just dip into the sheets and print the one you want to use. You could use the same sheet for the whole group or whole class of children. The booklet has purposely been created in black and white so as not to distract from the child’s drawings and of course to save printing costs.
There are 40 activities in the booklet covering so many aspects of emotional literacy.
I am sure children will get a lot out of the booklet and it will give you valuable information about their thoughts and feelings. It can also be used as a ready made lesson plan for one to one work or group work.
Please ensure you use ADOBE to open PDFs because this will give you great options for printing.
Wally Worry the worry monster is for helping children to offload their worries.
Included in the pack: *Wally Worry banner, *Wally Worry Monster(with writing, without writing and with a white label for writing with a whiteboard pen), *Wally Worry slips for children to fill in *Pocket template for catching the worries(2 colours).
Although the monster can be used with the pocket another way would be to laminate and cut along the curved line on his tummy. Stick something at the back of him to catch the worries.
Wally Worry is meant for printing on A3 paper but you could make it bigger or smaller depending on your needs. We recommend Adobe Reader for opening our PDFs as this gives you some lovely print options. You can print as a poster and make him pretty huge if you want to and alternatively for one child you could just print him on A4 paper.
Create a display in a natural design with this Natural resilience display pack. Natural displays are calming for some pupils. Sometimes bright colours can overstimulate a child.
Included in the pack: *80 vocabulary words *Banner *A-Z bunting *writing and drawing paper
This is a huge set of feelings cards and definitions. There are 171 cards in the pack which print 8 to an A4 page. There is also a page of ideas included which are listed below.
There is a feeling word and a very simple definition. You can use these for introducing vocabulary to children. They are suitable for KS2 to Secondary.
I have included some little cards that you can fold so you can hide the definition if you wish and get the child to guess what it might mean.
They are in alphabetical order and there are at least 4 feeling words for each letter except for x y and z
Ideas:
Find the letters of your name and decide if you have felt those feelings
Pick a bundle of the cards and arrange into alphabetical order
Pick out some positive feelings
Pick out some difficult feelings
Find a feeling word beginning with a certain letter and write a sentence using it
Hide the definition and ask the child to guess what it might mean
Find all the feelings that would be synonyms of happy, sad, angry or scared
Think about your day and pick out all the feelings you have felt in that day.
Make a collage of….angry words., happy words, scared words, sad words
Start a feelings diary and pick out your main feeling for that day. Write it down and explain why you felt that way.
Pick a card and draw…. the facial expression, a picture of a time when you felt like that, a comic strip of what happened when you felt like that
Use speech bubbles and thinking bubbles to show what you were thinking or saying
Make your own feeling’s dictionary by picking out all the emotion words you have heard of, writing them down in alphabetical order and write a brief description of what it means.
Pick an ‘angry’ word. How could you calm yourself down if you felt like that?
Pick a word and think about the physical feelings you get when you have this emotion.
Pick a feeling and… make the face, use a mirror to practise, act it out with a friend, make up a scenario that would make you feel like that.
Make up a scenario for a child and get them to choose the feeling they would feel in those circumstances.
Pick a positive feeling and try and use the word as many times as you can in one day.
Pick a feeling card and write or talk about how someone might behave when they feel that feeling. What might they do?
Pick a feeling word and think about who could help you if you felt like that or how could you help yourself if you felt like that?
Pick a feeling card and see if you can find the opposite feeling. An example would be that happy is the opposite of sad.
Pick a difficult feeling word and think about how you could change that feeling to a more positive feeling. What could you do?
This is our Coping skills toolkit for emotional regulation. Perfect for ELSA Support. There is a handy little pouch and lots of resources that will help pupils with their emotional regulation.
Each pupil could be given one of these. Go through the cards and decide which emojis to put in and which calming cards to put in. Each pupil could have their own bespoke toolkit.
Included in the coping skills toolkit
24 Emoji face cards
33 Coping, calming and mindfulness cards
Worry tree card
Circle of control card
Affirmations card
Anger feeling words and physical sensations card
Sadness feeling words and physical sensations card
Anxiety feeling words and physical sensations card
Scared feeling words and physical sensations words
Self care for wellbeing card
All these resources are in one handy file so you can print what you need.
This is a Feeling angry story pack for helping children who might need a little help with managing their anger.
Included in the Feeling angry story pack:
Front cover with space for a name and an 8 page story
24 Coping cards
The idea of this resource is to use the story and resources to help pupils understand how to deal with anger.
The story covers:
Triggers
Anger volcano
Body signs
Vocabulary around anger
Labelling the feeling
Scaling the feeling
Changing thoughts
Looking at something from a different perspective
Breathing techniques
Consequences of anger
It would be best to do a little at a time of the booklet so you can discuss it in detail and talk about the child’s experiences.
This growth mindset intervention can be run as a whole class, or group. The lessons will take 40 mins to an hour and are suitable for children from about 7 years old.
Learning Objectives:
M – I understand how making MISTAKES can help me learn.
I – I understand how seeing success can INSPIRE me.
N – I understand the importance of the words ‘NOT YET‘.
D – I understand what it means to be DETERMINED.
S – I can celebrate SUCCESS and understand how that makes me feel.
E – I understand that EVERYONE is different but that EVERYONE has the potential to succeed.
T – I know how important it is to THINK positively and have a ‘can do’ attitude to learning.
Included in the pack:
7 lessons, each corresponding to a letter from ‘MINDSET’.
‘A mistake that made my brain sparkle and grow’ worksheet.
‘Who inspires you? Who is your hero?’ worksheet.
‘My Goal’ worksheet
‘Questionnaire’ and ‘Bookmarks’.
‘What have you been successful at?’ worksheet.
2 different puzzle pieces
Everyone is different poster
Display heading
Rubbish bin/Treasure chest
Positive/negative cards for sorting
Mindset certificate
7 Posters 'Mindset'
This car emotions pack will appeal to younger children. It covers the basic six emotions of:
happy
sad
angry
scared
surprised
disgust
There are a huge bundle of resources in this pack. There are:
6 Full page emotion posters
Emotion cards with and without the words
Dominoes with and without the words
Emotion spinners with the emotion cars with and without words
Emotion spinners with questions on each emotion
Emotion fans with and without words
An emotion game with and without words
Park your emotion with and without words
Scale your emotion with and without words
Strength cards are a brilliant way of raising self-esteem in children. Please see below for lots of ideas on how to use them.
There are lots of ways of using them to help boost a child’s self esteem. They help children to name and recognise their inner strengths. Great for the child who is shy or doesn’t want to speak out in front of others.
Lay all the strength cards out and ask the child to pick five strengths that represent them.
In a group situation, ask one child to sit in the centre of the circle and the rest of the children have to pick five strengths that represent that child.
In a group situation, give each child a white board and pen and go through the strength cards. The children can write five on their whiteboards.
Pick one of your strength cards and decide how you are going to use that strength – today, tomorrow, next week, next year?
Pick one of the strengths that you want to be. For example if you decide you want to be a good team player. How can you achieve that? Make a plan.
Pick someone you admire, it might be a footballer, a singer, a film star, a family member or a friend, what strengths do they have?
Put the cards face down, ask a child to pick one. Discuss the card. Does he/she know anyone with that strength? Do they have that strength? Would they want that strength?
Ask the child to design their own strength card. What image would it have? What would the strength be?
Use the strength cards as affirmations. Use the five cards the child has chosen and get them to say ‘I am strong, I am thoughtful, I am wise, I am musical, I am kind’. Put them in a little box and the child must look at them daily and repeat the affirmations.
Pick one strength card such as ‘affectionate���. Who do they know who is Affectionate? Discuss. This could also be a group discussion.
The word affirm means to ‘state something that is true’. Affirmation cards have simple but positive messages that help to develop a person’s sense of self. When used regularly it is hoped that the positive message will be absorbed and a person will become more positive in their outlook in life. They will really begin to believe the statement that they are working on. The message needs to be realistic and very simple.
Although I have called these ‘ADULT’ they really are for anyone. My other cards have characters on them and these are character free.
All these cards begin with the words ‘I am’ and are very simple but achievable statements for all.
Included in the pack:
25 Affirmation cards – 4 to an A4 page
25 Affirmation cards – 2 to an A4 page
25 Affirmation cards – 1 to an A4 page
Blank Affirmation cards – 4 to an A4 page
Tips booklet
This is a set of 6 mats for using with playdough and emotions and feelings. Although my thoughts were that these would be fab for younger children, I am sure older children would enjoy using them too. Lots of open ended fun where children can be creative and think about colours.