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THE MOST EASY TO USE CALM DOWN CORNER KIT

Our Calm Kids Activity Book is a low-prep personal Calm Corner Kit with over 100 SEL activities and coping tool interventions!  Students love how many fun, calming strategy options there are, while teachers love how much this kit improves their trauma sensitive classroom management!

The SEL activities promote feeling identification, self-awareness, mindfulness, and emotion regulation.  Moreover, each intervention comes with hands-on and interactive social emotional learning worksheets and coping tool pdfs.  

For distance learning, share the no-prep Digital Calm Kids Activity Book on Google Slides™ with your students to use at home.  Or upload to a tablet, and keep in your Quiet Corner at school.

For face-to-face, in-school learning, the printable coping tools kit is so easy to prepare that you can make individual copies for each student to keep at their desk.  In other words, you don’t have to worry about sanitizing between each use!  Plus, students love having their own unique, personalized calm box. 

With so many therapeutic interventions and SEL activities, it’s also the perfect kit for school counselors to use with individual students and small groups. Moreover, families love printing this calm down corner kit for home use.  Not only does it help their children manage tough emotions, it’s also a fun “boredom buster” for kids, too!

The Emotional Regulation SEL Activities Are:

DRAW OR COLOR:

• Color or draw how I feel
• Draw what I wish for and hope will happen,
• Doodle something that makes me smile or laugh
• Just doodle or scribble
• Draw what happened
• Color a coloring page

EXERCISE, STRETCH or DO YOGA:

• Run, do jumping jacks, or do squats
• Ask if I can go on a short walk
• Do cross crawls
• Do yoga
• Play sports or another fun moving game
• Stretch

DO A BREATHING EXERCISE:

• Use a Breathing Board
• Bubble Breath
• Hot Cocoa
• Roller Coaster
• Hummingbird Breathing
• Elevator Breathing

FOCUS ON THE GOOD:

• List what I am grateful for
• Send a Heart Wish
• Remind myself of my strengths
• Look for the bright side of things
• Focus on what I have control over
• Make a plan to reach my goals

CONNECT WITH NATURE:

• Take a mindful walk outdoors
• Go on a nature treasure hunt
• Watch the clouds
• Imagine and/or draw a peaceful place in nature
• Ocean Wave Breathing
• Play outside

TALK ABOUT IT:

• Use I-Statements to talk about my feelings
• Say what I need
• Secret Hand Signal
• Talk to someone that I trust
• Talk it out to resolve a conflict
• Fill out a form to request a time to talk

JOURNAL OR WRITE A LETTER:

• Journal about my thoughts & feelings
• Write about my hopes, goals and wishes
• Brainstorm solutions for a problem I am having
•  Send a thank you note
• Address an apology letter
• Write a letter to someone I love and/or miss

DO SOMETHING KIND AND HELPFUL:

• Do something kind
• Volunteer to do a chore
• Make a plan to help others
• Do something to take care of the earth
• Give out a kindness coupon
• Compliment someone

USE POSITIVE SELF-TALK:

• Use a positive affirmation
• Hand Over Heart
• Use a coping statement
• Make a strength bracelet
• Turn a negative thought into a helpful thought
• Practice my power pose

TAKE A BREAK:

• Use a break card and/or timer
• Get a drink of water
• Just stop, breathe, then choose what to do
• Take a mini-movement break
• Imagine a peaceful place
• Count to 10

READ OR LOOK AT HAPPY PICTURES:

• Read something interesting
• Look at peaceful photos
• Read about fun facts
• Learn some new jokes
• Look at cute animal pictures
• Make a calming collage

TIGHTEN THEN RELAX MY MUSCLES:

• Chair or wall push-ups
• The Boat
• Rocks and Socks
• Palm Presses
• Arm and Shoulder Massage
• Hug it out

USE A FIDGET:

• Use a helpful calming tool
• Piano Fingers
• Doodle
• Use headphones
• Finger Pulls
• Flexible seating

BUILD SOMETHING OR SOLVE A PUZZLE:

• Build or invent something
• Picture puzzle
• Spot the difference puzzle
• Jigsaw puzzle
• Word puzzle
• Mazes

DO A MINDFULNESS EXERCISE:

• Notice how my body feels
• Listen to my emotions
• 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding
• Find a rainbow
• Focus on just one thing
• Energy sphere

Make sure to grab a copy of our FREE Feelings Scales!  They are a fabulous tool to use in classroom calm down corner kits!