- Calm down cards
Set of 31 Calm down cards helping you to educate your child on possible coping skills
and emotion regulation techniques.
- Calm down cards involve actions and activities that you would typically do when
feeling unpleasant emotions such as; frustration, disappointment or anger. These
activities include: breathe, squeeze and release, draw or paint, blow bubbles, take a
walk...etc.
- Assist in bringing your child back to his/her calming self during a stressful situation or
during a meltdown/tantrum.
- Developed through recommendations from trained experts in the field of childcare and
early childhood learning
- Hand-drawn cards double sided in both Arabic and English
- A6 size cards: 10.5 x 14.8 cm
Instructions:
1. Introduce the cards when the child is calm and in a non-stressful environment, talk
about the different strategies and see which one your child might be more interested in.
2. When your child is upset or in a meltdown listen and empathise with your child’s
feelings, recognise, name and acknowledge their feelings.
3. Do not stop the feeling
4. Use the cards to offer relaxation or calming techniques.
5. Ask the child to choose from the deck of cards the activities that they think will help to
relax and calm them, like listening to music, drawing or writing in a journal.
6. Model how to transform the feeling of frustration and anger using the examples in the
cards such as; count backwards from 10 or imagine a peaceful scene or pretend to blow
bubbles.
7. Practice the skills together for a few minutes every day.
8. Notice and encourage the child when they use these skills to cope with big feelings.
Commend them for becoming resilient.
9. Use creatively and with love. cm
MKandM - Calm Down Cards
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Calm down cardsSet of 31 Calm down cards helping you to educate your child on possible coping skillsand emotion regulation techniques. - Calm down cards involve actions and activities that you would...
