Egg-Cellent Doodles: Mindful Colouring, Pencil Control, Mark-Making Activity

Egg-Cellent Doodles Mindful Colouring Pencil Fine-Motor Control by Exciting Teacher

Egg-Cellent Doodles: Mindful Colouring, Pencil Control, Mark-Making Activity Egg-cellent Doodles is a calming activity that promotes mindfulness alongside the development of fine-motor skills, mark making, and pencil control. Children are invited to decorate the Easter Eggs by completing and/or adding their own patterns. Can you add patterns to the eggs? Colour in the patterned eggs […]

Design an Easter Egg: Mindfulness Fine-Motor Playdoh Play Mat

Mindful Modelling Design an Easter Egg Fine-Motor Playdoh Small Parts Play Mat by Exciting Teacher

Design an Easter Egg: Mindfulness Fine-Motor Playdoh Play Mat Mindful Modelling is a calming activity that promotes mindfulness alongside the development of fine-motor skills. Children are invited to decorate the Easter Egg. Use play-dough or small parts to decorate the Easter Egg. Sit quietly and calmingly. Notice yourself concentrating, feel the texture of each small […]

The Emotional Eggs: Role Play / Small World Puppets

The Emotional Eggs Puppets for Role Play Small World Areas EYFS KS1 by Exciting Teacher

The Emotional Eggs: Role Play / Small World Puppets The Emotional Eggs have been created to encourage children to talk about different feelings and the varied vocabulary associated with them. It is a tool for developing emotional literacy and feelings vocabulary. The Emotional Eggs are the perfect Easter addition to any EYFS or KS1 setting. […]

Eggy Emotions: Drawing Your Own Facial Expressions and Feelings

Emotional Eggs Facial Expressions Activity for Children by Exciting Teacher.

Eggy Emotions: Drawing Your Own Facial Expressions and Feelings The Emotional Eggs have been created to encourage children to different feelings, the varied vocabulary associated with them and the facial expressions that help us to understand what other people may be feeling. Suitable for EYFS, KS1 and KS2. How could this resource be used? To […]

Transforming Unhelpful to Helpful Thoughts: Challenging Negative Thoughts

Transforming Negative Thoughts Helpful and Unhelpful Thoughts CBT Worksheet for Children by Exciting Teacher

Transforming Unhelpful to Helpful Thoughts: Challenging Negative Thoughts This thought-challenging activity is a popular one in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: challenging unhelpful thoughts and turning those negative thoughts into more positive, helpful thoughts. This activity has been simplified to be used by Practitioners, Teachers, Parents, and ELSAs. It encourages the child to think about their thought […]

‘Thoughts on Trial’: For and Against Arguments for Negative Thoughts

Thoughts on Trial Cognitive Restructuring CBT Worksheet for Children by Exciting Teacher

‘Thoughts on Trial’: For and Against Arguments for Negative Thoughts This thought-challenging activity is a popular one in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. ‘Thoughts on Trial’ forms part of the Intervention, Cognitive Restructuring. This activity has been simplified to be used by Practitioners, Teachers, Parents and ELSAs. It encourages the child to think about their thought in […]

‘If I feel… I Can…’ Emotions Check-In Board

If I feel I Can Emotions Check-In Board by Exciting Teacher

‘If I feel… I Can…’ Emotions Check-In Board A feelings check-in board designed to help cihldren to identify what they are feeling and what appropriate behaviour choices they have in response to this feeling and managing it. This resource features The Scribbles Crew, a group of friendly-looking emotions characters that can be created by any […]

Worry Street: Worries, Proud Moments & Setting Goals Worksheet

Worry Street Worries Proud Moments Setting Goals Worksheet for Exciting Teacher

Worry Street: Worries, Proud Moments & Setting Goals Worksheet Welcome to Worry Street. Worry Street is home to our worries, our proud moments, and a plan where we can plan our next steps for moving forwards. This activity encourages children to explore what they worrying about, reflect on their own successes and plan ways that […]

Worry Bucket Worksheet

My worries going into the bucket and filling it up! Worry Bucket Worksheet for Children by Exciting Teacher

Worry Bucket Worksheet The Worry Bucket supports children and young people to think about their worries. It talks about imagining our worries filling up a bucket over time. This bucket may end up filling up, becoming overwhelming and tricky to navigate. However, we can help our worries by letting them go or solving them leading […]

‘Freezy the Feelings Snowman’ Emotions Activity

Members Freezy Feelings Snowman Snowperson Christmas Emotions Activity for Children and Young People by Exciting Teacher

‘Freezy the Feelings Snowman’ Emotions Activity A relaxing winter-themed resource to encourage mindfulness, doodling, and mark-making. Perfect for encouraging children to create different marks to decorate their hat, gloves and scarf. This is a simple mark-making activity that is bound to promote calmness and get everyone involved. Suitable for all ages. How could this resource […]