Self-Regulation Activity Pack: 15+ Printable Worksheets for Feelings & Coping Tools

Self-Regulation Activity Pack: Tools & Worksheets to Manage Feelings

Empower your child or student with the essential skills to navigate their big emotions! The Self-Regulation Activity Pack is a clear, visual, and child-friendly resource designed to help young children better understand their feelings (such as angry, tired, sad, excited, or bored) and learn simple, healthy strategies to manage them.

The activities are designed to teach one small part of self-regulation at a time, including recognizing feelings, matching tools, choosing strategies, and building a personal calm plan. What's Included:

This pack provides a collection of engaging worksheets and visual guides:

• Emotion Recognition Pages: Worksheets for matching faces to emotion words (like Happy, Sad, Angry, Bored, Tired, Excited) and drawing or coloring to identify how the child is feeling today.
• Calming Tools by Emotion: Dedicated pages with visual strategies for specific feelings, covering what to do when a child feels Angry, Tired, Bored, Sad, or Too Excited. Strategies include 5 Finger Breathing, Deep Pressure (like wrapping up like a burrito), Heavy Work, and Positive Self-Talk.
• My Calm Choices: A page with various calming strategies that can be cut out and placed in a choice box or board.
• Build My Calm Plan: Worksheets that help the child add strategies for what their body, brain, and feelings need today.

3 Key Benefits (Our "Fun Facts"):

• Versatile Use: This resource is perfect for multiple settings! It can be used at school for morning check-ins, at home to help a child who feels overwhelmed, in therapy sessions, or in quiet spaces.
• Builds Lifelong Skills: By building emotional awareness now, these skills will support your child not just today, but throughout their entire life.
• Flexible and Reusable: The pages and strategies can be used multiple times as a child’s feelings and situations change.