Coping Strategies Bundle | SEL Skills Activities & Lessons for Managing Emotions

Help kids build healthy coping strategies with this bundle of SEL resources and activities! Students will learn about coping strategies, choose their favorites, and practice them. Coping skills are a necessary social-emotional skill to manage stress and tough emotions that we all need.

Why Teach Coping Strategies

Coping strategies are any activity that can help calm emotions and stress. Kids and young adults may often experience difficult emotions but do not have appropriate coping strategies for dealing with those feelings. Just some of the coping strategies discussed and practiced within this bundle include: listening to music, taking a walk, coloring, deep breathing, hyperfocusing on an object, using positive self-talk, practicing yoga, counting to ten, talking to a friend, taking a time out and much more.

Practice Again and Again

An important to teaching coping strategies is that they must be practiced again and again if we want students to use them when they need them the most. Use different activities, crafts, and supports to continue to teach about coping skills over and over.

Several of the activities can be used as long-term tools for coping skills. That means students will be able to use their coping strategies cards, keys, or notebook to help them throughout the whole year.

This bundle includes:

• Coping Strategies Fortune Teller Craft - A hands-on tool to teach about coping strategies. Students will put design their fortune tellers and then practice!

• Coping Strategies Keys to Success - A hands-on craft and lesson to teach about coping skills. Students will choose their favorite coping skills to keep "keys" with them.

• Coping Strategies Notebook - Students will create their own individualized coping strategies notebook. Use this notebook for instruction, but also a tool later on when kids need it the most.

• Coping Strategies Notebook for Older Kids - Another coping strategies notebook with visuals and support for older students.

• Coping Strategies Cards - 40 coping strategies cards with activities to help students manage stress and tough emotions on the spot. Make an individualized set or keep in a calm-down area.

• Positive Self-Talk Flower Craft - A craft and lesson focused on positive self-talk. Students will create their own positive self-talk flower to remind them about their positive words and phrases.

• Positive Thinking Fortune Teller Craft - A fortune teller focused on practicing positive self-talk for social-emotional success. Students will make their own fortune teller and practice the phrases.

• Cool Coping Strategies - A lesson and craft where students choose their own coping strategies and put them together as a pop craft.

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If you love these activities but want MORE, check out this huge Mindfulness & Coping Strategies Mega Bundle. It has everything included here and lots more for a greater discount.

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Disclaimer: These resources and materials are for supplementary support/education purposes and not intended as a replacement for counseling, education, or other necessary supports. Educators, parents, counselors, and others who utilize these materials are encouraged to seek out additional support, as needed.

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