Supporting Emotions Pack

This pack contains a selection of activities to help children feel relaxed, soothed and in control of their emotions. Emotional support might include fun distractions to ease anxiety, calming techniques to manage worries or tools that encourage open communication with healthcare providers to address individual needs.
This pack has a variety of materials that can be used before, during, or after a hospital visit
Learn more about the resources in this pack...

Certificates
Celebrate and acknowledge a child's efforts with our vibrant certificates! Fill in and personalise each one with an example of their bravery, achievements, or special moments.

Soothing activities
This resource helps explore the calming benefit of soothing activities. Caregivers can discuss with their child which activities they find most calming, then tick them off or add their own ideas.

Guess the emotion
This fun game introduces different emotions to help children recognize and name feelings. Children have opportunities to build emotional vocabulary and develop awareness in a playful way.

Reflection
Help children and their caregiver reflect on their visit in a playful way, with prompts u to talk about moments that stood out or made your child feel scared, brave, or proud.
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Stress Bucket
This playful activity helps children to understand and visualise how stress can build up and how they can take action to reduce it. Through water-based play, they learn about their sources of stress and the feeling of becoming overwhelmed.

GlitterJar
This creative activity offers a hands-on way for you to help children understand and manage worries. By making and shaking a glitter jar, a child can see how stress and worry stir up emotions, just like swirling glitter in the jar.

Relaxing Mind
This resource helps children stay calm and still during medical visits by using their imagination to relax their mind and body. It provides simple, engaging ideas that encourage children to focus on comforting thoughts

Creative Mind
This resource helps children stay still and quiet during medical visits by using their imagination. It offers a range of creative thinking activities to choose from, like inventing an imaginary friend, finding a magical object, or pretending to have superpowers.

Playful Mind
This resource will help children stay still and quiet during medical procedures by engaging their minds in fun, playful activities. It offers a variety of simple, enjoyable activities like the ABC game, word association, and rhyming challenges that can be done quietly in their mind

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Provide your patients with activities designed to help them feel relaxed, soothed and in control of their emotions.