Thought Freeing Fireworks: Letting Worries Go
‘Thought Freeing Fireworks: Letting Worries Go’ has been designed to support children and young people with letting go of worries.
Imagine your worry shooting up to the sky like a firework before exploding and disappearing! Write down your worries in the fireworks and let them go. This is a helpful way to imagine letting go of those pesky worries that we cannot solve and so they like to stick around to bother us.
How could this resource be used?
- To support emotional literacy and self-regulation.
- To support a child 1:1.
- To understand one strategy for letting go of non-practical worries (worries that cannot be solved).
- To support a child 1:1.
- To be used as part of a classroom display.
- To promote mindfulness.
Relevant Curriculum Links
England PSHE Statutory Curriculum Strands:
- KS1: H18 – different things they can do to manage big feelings, to help calm themselves down and/or change their mood when they don’t feel good.
- KS2: H20 – how to manage and respond to feelings appropriately and proportionately in different situations.
Scottish Health and Wellbeing Curriculum Outcome(s):
- I am aware of and able to express my feelings and am developing the ability to talk about them. HWB 0-01a / HWB 1-01a / HWB 2-01a / HWB 3-01a / HWB 4-01a.
- I know that we all experience a variety of thoughts and emotions that affect how we feel and behave and I am learning ways of managing them. HWB 0-02a / HWB 1-02a / HWB 2-02a / HWB 3-02a / HWB 4-02a.
- I understand that my feelings and reactions can change depending upon what is happening within and around me. This helps me to understand my own behaviour and the way others behave. HWB 0-04a / HWB 1-04a / HWB 2-04a / HWB 3-04a / HWB 4-04a.
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