Coping Strategies Lesson and Craft for SEL Skills Activity
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Help kids build healthy coping strategies with this bundle of SEL resources and activities! Students will learn about coping strategies, choose their favorites, and practice them. Coping skills are a necessary social-emotional skill to manage stress and tough emotions that we all need.Why Teach CopiPrice $40.00Original Price $48.00Save $8.00
Build a more mindful, calm, and focused classroom with these mindfulness and coping strategies activities. Filled with engaging workbooks, lessons, task cards, and activities, you will have everything you need to help your students manage tough emotions and self-regulate to help them do their best.TPrice $154.00Original Price $209.00Save $55.00
Description
Use this craft and activity to teach coping strategies for anxiety, anger, stress, and other strong emotions. Kids and young adults will complete a lesson to learn about coping strategies and then create an ice pop craft with their individualized strategies chosen. This craft includes over 30 unique coping strategies for kids and young adults to choose from. This would be the perfect spring or summer activity while still focusing on learning critical skills!
Why Teach Coping Strategies
Coping strategies are any activity that can help calm emotions and stress. Kids and young adults may often experience difficult emotions but do not have appropriate coping strategies for dealing with those feelings. Just some of the coping strategies discussed and practiced within this resource include: listening to music, taking a walk, coloring, deep breathing, focusing on an object, using positive self-talk, practicing yoga, counting to ten, talking to a friend, and much more.
How to Use
Students will complete a worksheet that discusses and reviews the concept of coping strategies. To complete the craft, kids will select 2 or more coping strategies, cut out all the pieces, and glue them together. Note that step-by-step directions with photos are included to make it easy! Kids can add as many coping strategies to their ice pop to make it taller! The top of the ice pop says "I can...", encouraging kids to internalize using those strategies to help them manage emotions. After completing their craft, kids are encouraged to practice those strategies, as it is essential for kids to practice those strategies when they are calm. This will allow kids to learn how to use those same strategies when they are angry, sad, frustrated, or any other strong emotion.
Alternatively, a blank version is available for kids to write in their own completely individualized strategies.
Some of the strategies include:
• Use positive self-talk
• Write in a journal
• Take a walk
• Practice yoga
• Think of a happy place
• Slowly count to ten
• Listen to music
• Color or draw
• Talk to someone
• Read
• Make a list of choices
• Take 5 deep breaths
• And many more!
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{ Mindfulness and Coping Strategies MEGA Bundle }
This is a HUGE bundle with over 500 pages focused on teaching mindfulness and coping strategies to encourage self-control, happiness, positivity, and many more positive outcomes. It contains a variety of lessons, workbooks, posters, task cards, foldable crafts, and much more!
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Disclaimer: These resources are for supplementary support/education purposes and are not a replacement for education or other necessary supports. Educators, parents, and others who utilize these materials are encouraged to seek out additional support, as needed.
