'BIG Feelings Scale': Emotional Regulation Lanyard Prompts featuring the Scribbles Crew
‘BIG Feelings Scale’: Emotional Regulation Lanyard Prompts featuring the Scribbles Crew’ has been designed to support children and young people with regulating their emotions inspired by the 5 Point Scale. It emphasises that feelings are temporary and can change.
The sheet encourages children and young people to identify where on the scale they are feeling and what they can do to support.
This download includes multiple versions of the sheet, so you can fill in the appropriate next steps with the young person before laminating. This could be written or visual.
These can either be left as long strips or cut into individual colours before being hole punched.
This resource features The Scribbles Crew, a group of friendly-looking emotions characters that can be created by any child. They are just that: scribbles!
How could this resource be used?
- To support emotional regulation.
- To support emotional literacy and identifying feelings on a scale.
- To support a child 1:1.
- This could also be used as a whole class display to support all children.
Relevant Curriculum Links
England PSHE Statutory Curriculum Strands:
- KS1: H13 – how feelings can affect people’s bodies and how they behave.
- 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.
