Mindful Breathing and Stretching CBT Coping Strategy Craft Activities Set 2

Help kids create craft projects to help them remember 3 coping strategies based on a breathing technique, a self-hug, and a stretching technique to encourage self-regulation. These 3 social-emotional learning coping skills arts and craft projects give you easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions to create these 3 unique coping skills arts and craft projects!

You’ll get step-by-step instructions to create these 3 coping skills crafts! ✨

⭐ Sun and Sand Craftivity

⭐ Gorilla Hug Craftivity

⭐ Snowman Stress Melter Breath Craftivity

These hands-on arts and craftivities are the perfect way to help kids learn, practice, and remember the coping skills taught in Skills for Big Feelings: A Guide for Teaching Kids Relaxation, Regulation, and Coping Techniques by Casey O’Brien Martin.

This resource is a companion to the Skills for Big Feelings curriculum and aligned to session 2, but the crafts can also be used as a stand-alone project or intervention! You’ll get written instructions for each of the coping skills to print and send home! These crafts are perfect for small group, individual counseling, or whole classroom lessons!

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➜ Coping Skills Craftivities eBook featuring 40 coping skills craft projects!

This resource gives you everything you need to teach important social-emotional learning skills in a fun, hands-on, engaging, and creative way. Best of all, these craftivities can be created using basic art and school supplies! Please watch the preview video to check it out! Music by bensound.com.

The emotion-focused coping skills in Skills for Big Feelings are cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) inspired coping skill interventions. This is a great way to reinforce coping strategies in a fun way through project-based art activities.

There are numerous benefits of doing art-based projects with kids including working on: ✨

→ Being okay with making mistakes

→ Measuring challenges and equal measurements

→ Frustration tolerance and in-the-moment coping skills practice

→ Bilateral coordination

→ Fine motor skills

→ Hand-eye coordination

→ Problem-solving and decision-making skills

→ Creative thinking skills

→ Flexible thinking skills

→ Listening and following directions

→ Executive functioning skills such as paying attention, planning, organizing, and switching focus

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Who This Resource Is For: ✨

➜ Counselors, social workers, psychologists, speech-language pathologists, therapists, occupational therapists, and other related service providers who are working on self-awareness, emotional identification, self-regulation, and social awareness skills

➜ Teachers, homeschooling parents, and other educators who want to bring more social-emotional learning into their classrooms and homes
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