'My Worry Bucket': Worksheet Exploring Worries and BIG Feelings

The Worry Bucket supports children and young people to think about their worries.

It talks about imagining our worries filling up a bucket over time. This bucket may end up filling up, becoming overwhelming and tricky to navigate.

However, we can help our worries by letting them go or solving them leading to us feeling much less overwhelmed.

This is a practical worksheet for supporting children to let go of their worries and learn how to manage their worry.

How could this resource be used?

To support children with managing their worries.
To explore strategies that we can use to help us to understand and navigate our worries in day-to-day life.
For KS2 and up.

Relevant Curriculum Links

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 – strategies to respond to feelings, including intense or conflicting feelings; how to manage and respond to feelings appropriately and proportionately in different situations.
KS2: H21 – to recognise warning signs about mental health and wellbeing and how to seek support for themselves and others.

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.