Calm Down Corner or Take a Break Spot Dreamcatchers Theme

Students can regulate their emotions and use calming strategies to refocus their attention with this calm down activity kit. Any student can use this kit when they need to calm down from anger, anxiety, or overwhelming feelings. By teaching students self regulation, you will cut down on the time you spend redirecting misbehavior. The calming kit includes a mood meter for assessing current emotional level. After using the counseling activities in the kit, students assess their mood again to decide if they are ready to return to the group.

Can be used by school counselors, classroom teachers, special education teachers, school psychologists, social workers, or any other educator who helps children with emotional regulation.

Includes:

• Poster “Catch a Mindful Moment” - to hang up in your calm down corner

• Instruction Page “Catch a Mindful Moment” - Place in a binder to guide students through using the kit.

• Mood Ring Card - to be used with the mood meter for assessing emotions

• Mood Meter - to be used before and after mindful breaks to assess emotions

• 3 Dreamcatcher Mazes - to place in sheet protectors or laminate so that students can reuse them with dry erase markers. (each includes answer key)

• 24 "Catch Coping Skills” Cards to place on a key ring - include prompts for practicing mindful moments

• Catch my Feelings Page - to be placed in a sheet protector or laminated for students to reuse with dry erase markers. Includes multiple examples of feelings vocabulary words.

• Write my Feelings Page - to be placed in a sheet protector or laminated for students to reuse with dry erase markers.

• Color my Feelings Page - copy several pages and keep them in the kit with a box of colored pencils.

3 Bookmark design templates (5 to a page)


More Calm Down Corners:

• Take a Break Station - Llama Theme

• Take a Break Station - Monsters

• Take a Break Station - Sloth Theme

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Students can regulate their emotions and refocus with this forrest themed calm down activity kit. Any student can use this kit when they need to calm down from anger, anxiety, or overwhelming feelings. By teaching students self regulation, you will cut down on the time you spend redirecting misbehavior. The calming kit includes a mood meter for assessing current emotional levels. After using the counseling activities in the kit, students assess their mood again to decide if they are ready to return to the group.

*** How to Create a Calm Down Corner with this Kit ***

Hang the "Calm Down Corner" banner with quote pennants.

Attach cover page to the front of a binder.

Place the colorful pages in sheet protectors and place them in a spiral binder. Students will be able to write on them over and over again.

Place the binder in a basket or box.

Add other fidgets and sensory items in the box.

Create a corner of the room with a comfy chair for using the box.

Use the enclosed poster to designate your calming area.

I would also suggest including a sand timer or other method of tracking time.

*** Who would benefit from this kit? ***

Can be used by school counselors, classroom teachers, special education teachers, school psychologists, social workers, or any other educator who helps children with emotional regulation.

*** Includes ***

• Poster “Calm Down Corner” Horizontal

• Instruction Page “Calm Down Corner”

• Suggestions for “Other Calming Tools”

• Mood Meter (use before and after your mindful break.)

• Calming Checklist

• 8 Calming Mazes plus answer keys(includes 5 easy and 3 more challenging versions )

• ”Things I can and cannot control” Page

• "Rainbow Breathing" Page

• 40 ”Calming Cards” to put on a Key Ring or place in a small box. (with 16 easy/average versions plus 24 more challenging cards)

• Write my Feelings on the Mountain

• Write my Feelings on the Mountain (more challenging version)

• Grounding Poster

• Write my Feelings Lined Journal Page

• Mindful coloring bookmarks 3 pages with 5 per page

• Grounding Mindful Activity Sheet

• Mindful Quotes coloring pages – 3 pages/designs

•7 Colorful Pennant Banners with Quotes

•39 total pages + 28 b/w copies of the colored pages
More Calm Down Corners

• Take a Break Station - Dreamcatchers

• Take a Break Station - Llama Theme

• Take a Break Station - Monsters

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