With Thanksgiving this week, enjoy interacting with your kids and finding things they are thankful for that start with all the letters in the alphabet, play the Bucket Game and make thank you cards. Make sure to tell them that being thankful is a great healthy way to cope with big emotions, especially jealousy and disappointment and loneliness.

Kids love to roll and throw dice. Engage them in learning healthy coping skills and labeling emotions while they play. Purchase one or more soft/plush pocket dice (These can be purchased off a variety of consumer websites. Search “pocket dice.” The inserts are small enough for 3in x3in sided dice or larger.) There are emotion cards and healthy coping skills cards that are colored blue and orange. All of them can be used for children ages 3+. The orange circles are specificall

Try to be the person to choose the most unique coping skills for each emotion and earn points. The player with the most points after 4...

Add a few minutes of emotional learning to your morning routine. Print off these 16 healthy copings skills with explanations and...

Print off these Emoji faces and Healthy Coping Skills to create a bulletin board to reinforce emotional learning skills. Pair with Daily...

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, so here is a collection of games and activities for teachers, parents and caregivers to add to their day to teach important mental health skills to kids, like labeling emotions and a variety of healthy coping skills. (Research shows that learning a variety of healthy coping skills is what matters to help children better self-regulate, have more self-esteem, and achieve more academic success over time.)* Emoji Scavenger Hunt Teachers of g

Music and Marching combine to make this a fun game of practicing healthy coping skills. This can be done with one child or a group of...

Make learning healthy ways to cope with big emotions fun with this bowling game! Print out the wraps for empty toilet paper tubes, tape...

Try this take on the familiar game of "War" but with a twist involving emotions that cause wars and healthy coping skills that win a war...

Make some COPEcakes by having your child put which healthy coping skill topper they would use to calm down for each emotion and have them...

Learn healthy coping skills while you play sorting and matching games!

Something you say each day that reflects things you do well, but also things you want to become or you are working to accomplish. If you...

Recognize and label emotions with this emotions journal app. The interactive emojis help children identify emotions as well as when you...

SafeUT is an important resource related to healthy coping skills. The SafeUT app provides 24/7 access to FREE confidential emotional...

Move your body and learn healthy coping skills at the same time. Print all the pages double-sided. Your child can color them before...

CREATE is a great healthy coping skill. Empower your child with a toolbox of healthy coping skills and a fun, easy craft to go along with...

An article titled "Fostering Your Child’s Self-Regulation"published Nov. 2018 by Samantha Addante, Mira Armans, Lucia Ciciolla, Amanda...

Now you can mix and match the emotions with different ways they make our body feel and what healthy coping skill would be a good choice...

You will have fun learning to label emotions and practice healthy coping skills in the game moving up or down the arrows. Move up the...

This is a great way to add a mindfulness minute or mental and emotional break activity to your day. Print out the cards, put them on a...