Calming Cards

PURPOSE

To help children create images that remind them that they can choose to do an activity to get to a calm and happy place

Copy the images shown and cut them out, or you create your own images. Keep these in the “Cool Down Kit.” Ask the child to help you create the list specifically for him or her using the worksheet on the following page.

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WORKSHEET: ACTIVITIES I CAN DO TO CALM DOWN

Use this worksheet to brain storm ideas with kids before creating their own cards.

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Work with the child to transfer the child’s favorite cool down ideas to these blank cards.

I Am Calm

I Am Calm

I Am Calm