Activities
Things to do, feel and make
32 gentle, interactive activities for children from 3 to 17, each with a version to make at home and a line on why it helps.
Age
Kind of activity
32 activities
Feelings weather
What's the weather like inside you today?
3–5 · 6–8 · 9–12 · 13–17
Name my feelings
Pick every feeling you have. All of them are allowed.
3–5 · 6–8 · 9–12 · 13–17
Where do I feel it?
Feelings live in our bodies too. Tap where you feel yours.
6–8 · 9–12
Feelings thermometer
How big is the feeling, from 1 to 10?
9–12 · 13–17
How heavy is it today?
Is your sadness a tiny pebble or a giant boulder today?
3–5 · 6–8 · 9–12
Fizzy feelings
What happens when feelings get shaken up and bottled in?
6–8 · 9–12
Outside face, inside face
The face you show, and what's really underneath.
9–12 · 13–17
My week of ups and downs
Draw the ups and downs of your week, like a rollercoaster.
6–8 · 9–12 · 13–17
Balloon breathing
Breathe in calm, like filling a big balloon.
3–5 · 6–8 · 9–12 · 13–17
Stop, look, listen
Big feelings are like a loud truck. Watch it drive by.
6–8 · 9–12
Feelings are clouds
Thoughts and feelings drift and change, like clouds.
6–8 · 9–12 · 13–17
Calm colouring
Fill a peaceful picture with colour, one shape at a time.
3–5 · 6–8 · 9–12 · 13–17
Memory box
Keep your favourite memories of them safe.
3–5 · 6–8 · 9–12 · 13–17
A letter to someone who died
Write to them, then fold it into a paper boat.
6–8 · 9–12 · 13–17
Paint a memory stone
Decorate a stone with a word or pattern that reminds you of them.
3–5 · 6–8 · 9–12
Carry it on
Things they loved that you can keep doing.
6–8 · 9–12 · 13–17
Thankful tree
Grow a tree of the things that still bring you good feelings.
3–5 · 6–8 · 9–12
A goodbye plan
Plan a small way to say goodbye to them.
3–5 · 6–8 · 9–12
Questions kids ask
Honest answers to the big questions.
3–5 · 6–8 · 9–12 · 13–17
What does dead mean?
Sort what living things can do, and learn what changes when something dies.
3–5 · 6–8
Feed the worry monster
Munch eats worries, so you don't have to carry them alone.
3–5 · 6–8 · 9–12
My top five worries
Write your worries, then sort them out.
6–8 · 9–12 · 13–17
Spin the coping wheel
Spin for an idea to try when feelings get big.
6–8 · 9–12 · 13–17
My look-after-me kit
Pack a kit of things that help on hard days.
6–8 · 9–12 · 13–17
Safe box and scary box
Put scary things in one box and safe things in the other.
3–5 · 6–8
Who is there for me?
Build your circle of people who can help.
6–8 · 9–12 · 13–17
Days that might be hard
Plan for birthdays, anniversaries and special days.
6–8 · 9–12 · 13–17
Grief on your phone
Memorial pages, messages and staying safe online.
13–17
My plan for hard moments
What helps, and who to contact, when it gets really bad.
13–17
What I was to them
The part you played, and what comes next.
9–12 · 13–17
Do something good
Turn some of what you feel into something that helps.
6–8 · 9–12 · 13–17
Draw it
Draw how you feel, or a memory of them.
3–5 · 6–8 · 9–12 · 13–17