Coping Skills Treasure Hunt

This is a fun activity for a group - especially of young kids.  I used business cards and printed a treasure chest on one side and a gem with a coping skill on the other.  Then I "hid" them in the room.  As individuals searched and found them, they did the action on the card.

Examples of card actions:

• Blow bubbles.
• Do a finger maze.
• Fill your cheeks with air, hold for 5 seconds, exhale.
• Place your hands on opposite shoulders and squeeze.
• Get a fly off your nose without using your hands.
• Stand in a circle. Going around the circle, each person says "When I feel ____, I do ____." Everyone follows the action.
• Do a guided meditation.
• Draw an emotion.
• Crumple paper and throw it into a basket.
• Compliment someone.

I'm sure you can think of others.

Happy Spring!

Play is taking time to enjoy the little things.

Sandtray Stories - Otter and Wolf - Part 1

I put my stories in a box specific to them.

This is the story of Otter and Wolf

Part 1:

Near a pond lived an otter.  He loved to play. 

Every day his friend Wolf would come to the pond to drink and play. 

They splashed in the water until they were tired and then they would curl up together and sleep.