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Downloadable Parent Resources
Fun Creative Therapy Resources for your Home!
Mood Mandalas
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Benefits
Mindfulness: Focusing on colouring and staying in the present moment encourages mindfulness.
Self-Expression: Choosing colours based on mood allows non-verbal emotional expression.
Anxiety Reduction: Studies show colouring mandalas can reduce stress and anxiety, especially in children who may struggle to articulate their feelings.
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Therapeutic Benefits
Non-Verbal Expression: By using figures and symbols, children can communicate emotions they might struggle to express verbally.
Emotional Processing: The tactile nature of sand and symbolic play can help children process difficult emotions or traumatic experiences safely.
Empowerment and Control: Choosing and arranging objects gives children a sense of control, helping build empowerment and self-confidence.
Fun Puppet Play Activity
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Therapeutic Benefits
Empathy Development: Role-playing with puppets helps children imagine the thoughts and feelings of others, strengthening their capacity for empathy.
Emotional Expression: Puppets allow children to express feelings that might be challenging to articulate directly.
Social Problem-Solving: Practicing different social scenarios helps children develop strategies for real-life interactions.
Fun Creative Therapy Resources for your Home!
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Therapeutic Benefits
Resilience: By practicing responses in a safe environment, children learn to handle difficult situations, building emotional resilience.
Problem-Solving: Role-playing encourages children to think through social challenges and identify solutions.
Empathy and Perspective-Taking: Acting out different roles helps children understand others’ viewpoints, enhancing empathy and social awareness.
For Further Information Visit: The Raising Children Network.
Emotion Charades: A Fun and Interactive Way to Build Emotional Awareness in Children
Therapeutic Benefits
Emotional Awareness: Research shows that helping children identify and label emotions is crucial for emotional development. When children learn to recognize emotions in themselves and others, they’re better able to manage their own emotional responses (Raising Children Network, 2024).
Empathy Development: Observing others act out emotions helps children understand how different emotions look and feel, fostering empathy. According to the Greater Good Science Centre, empathy plays a key role in developing healthy relationships and emotional resilience in children (Greater Good Science Centre, 2023).
Therapeutic Benefits
Social Skills: By actively thinking about and performing kind acts, children learn to consider others' feelings and build positive interactions. Practicing kindness has been shown to improve social-emotional skills in children, fostering a sense of community and cooperation (Raising Children Network, 2024).
Self-Esteem Boost: Performing kind acts and receiving appreciation from others enhances children’s self-worth and confidence. When children feel they have contributed positively, they experience a sense of competence and self-efficacy. Studies reveal that acts of kindness improve children’s self-esteem and happiness (Frontiers in Psychology, 2023).
For More Visit: Positive Psychology
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