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Play-based therapy

Play activities therapists can do with children to explore feelings and build skills.

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Animal Breathing Cards

Six colourful cut-out cards that teach calming breaths through animals, including one the child invents.

Coping strategies · Emotional regulation

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Body Clues Detective

Children become detectives and colour where they feel different feelings in their body.

Arousal and regulation · Emotional literacy

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Brave Steps Mountain

A colourful mountain for planning small brave steps towards something a child finds scary.

Child anxiety · Coping strategies

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Feelings Path Board Game

A bright board game with 24 squares of questions, faces and movement, to play with a therapist and get children talking.

Emotional literacy · Play-based therapy

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My Feelings Garden

A bright garden activity: children colour a flower for each feeling, with bigger feelings getting more colour.

Creative activities · Emotional literacy

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My Feelings Volcano

A big volcano to explore how anger builds, from little rumbles to erupting, with cool-down ideas to try together.

Emotional literacy · Emotional regulation

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My Helping Hand

Children fill a big colourful hand with five people who can help them, at home, at school and beyond.

Personal safety · Play-based therapy

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My Safe Island

Children draw their own island full of the people, places and things that help them feel safe and calm.

Coping strategies · Creative activities

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Puppet Pals Role-Play

Four cut-out stick puppets with big feelings, plus story prompts for acting out tricky moments together.

Emotional literacy · Play-based therapy

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Story Stones Cut-Outs

Twelve colourful picture stones to cut out and use for telling stories, with simple story starters for therapists.

Creative activities · Emotional literacy

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Worry Boats

Children write or draw their worries on boats and sail them across the sea, sorting what grown-ups can help with.

Child anxiety · Play-based therapy

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