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Teaching children self-regulation skills is the first step towards giving them the ability to manage BIG feelings and feel a sense of control of their emotions. This resource is suitable for elementary aged children.

KEEP CALM: Fun with Self-Regulation

A Playful, Research-Informed Toolkit to Help Kids Understand, Express, and Manage Big Emotions


Big feelings don’t have to mean big struggles.

Whether you’re a therapist, educator, or parent…you’ve seen it.

A child who can’t quite name what they feel
A child who moves from zero to overwhelmed in seconds
A child who wants to do better… but doesn’t yet have the tools

Keep Calm: Fun with Self-Regulation was created to bridge that gap.

This instant download gives you structured, engaging, developmentally appropriate ways to help children build real emotional skills…not just talk about them.


What This Resource Helps Kids Do

✔ Identify and name emotions with more precision
✔ Understand the shades and nuances of feelings (not just “mad” or “sad”)
✔ Build self-regulation strategies they can actually use in the moment
✔ Practice cognitive and behavioral coping skills in a child-friendly way
✔ Express thoughts and feelings through creative, low-pressure activities
✔ Develop awareness, control, and confidence over time

What’s Inside

This is not a single worksheet. It’s a comprehensive, skill-building toolkit you can use again and again.

Feelings Identification Activities

  • Expanded emotion exploration beyond basics

  • Visual and interactive supports for deeper emotional awareness

  • Activities that help kids differentiate, not just label

Nuances of Emotion Work

  • Tools to explore intensity, triggers, and mixed emotions

  • Builds emotional vocabulary and insight

  • Supports children who struggle with “all-or-nothing” feelings

Self-Regulation Planning Tools

  • Structured guides for “what to do when…” moments

  • Personalized coping plans kids help create

  • Reinforces independence and carryover outside sessions

Comic Strip Creation Pages

  • Kids illustrate scenarios, thoughts, and outcomes

  • Excellent for processing, perspective-taking, and problem-solving

  • Naturally integrates cognitive restructuring

Clippable CBT Mantras

  • Short, child-friendly cognitive reframes

  • Grounded in cognitive behavioral principles

  • Can be cut out, kept, and used in real time

CBT Skills Practice Activities

  • Thought–feeling–behavior connections made simple

  • Engaging formats that don’t feel like “work”

  • Repetition built in for skill mastery

Who This Is For

Perfect for:

  • Child therapists

  • School counselors

  • Social workers

  • Psychologists

  • Educators

  • Parents who want more than “just talk about your feelings”

Best suited for:

  • Early elementary through middle school (with flexible use across ages)


How You Can Use It

  • In individual therapy sessions

  • In small groups or classrooms

  • As part of a structured SEL curriculum

  • For home support and parent-child work

  • As a supplement to existing treatment plans

What Makes This Different

  • Structured but flexible

  • Evidence-informed but kid-friendly

  • Engaging without being overstimulating

  • Practical enough to use immediately

And most importantly…

It helps children move from
“I don’t know what’s happening”
to
“I know what I’m feeling…and I know what to do.”


Instant Download Details

  • Digital PDF format/Nothing will be shipped

  • Print-and-use immediately

  • Use again and again across multiple children/clients


Bring Calm Within Reach

When kids have the right tools, everything changes.

More understanding
More confidence
More regulation
More connection

Download Keep Calm: Fun with Self-Regulation today and start building skills that last.

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You'll Reach for This Resource Time and Again

The flexibility is endless with this resource...use some sections clients presenting with a variety of self-regulation issues, or use the entire set of related activities.

Contents

Keep Calm Workbook.pdf
  • 6.7 MB