Feeling Angry? Take a Calm Tip is a free printable tear-off poster designed to help children and young people manage big feelings like anger or frustration. Each tear-off slip includes a simple calming strategy that children can try on their own, making this a great visual support for developing emotional regulation skills.
With activities like deep breathing, stretching, counting, visualisation, and mindfulness, this resource is especially helpful for use in schools, therapy rooms, home settings, and youth support services. It gives children quick, practical tools they can use to feel more in control and supported when emotions run high.
What’s Inside This Calming Tear-Off Poster?
10 different calm-down tips – Each strip includes a grounding or calming activity such as:
• Take 5 slow breaths
• Count to 10 and then back
• Squeeze and relax your hands
• Stretch up and flop down
• Close your eyes and think of a happy place
• Blow out 10 pretend candles
• Name 10 things you can see
• Draw how you feel
• Tap your fingers gently on your legs
• Put your hand on your chest and feel it moveChild-friendly and accessible – Designed in a calm and supportive tone to make techniques easy to remember and try.
Promotes independence and self-soothing – Encourages children to take ownership of their emotions by picking and using a calming strategy that works for them.
Visually engaging – Easy to display and attractive to younger and older children alike.
How Can the Resource Be Used Practically?
In classrooms and learning spaces – Place the poster on a wall or near a calm corner where children can tear off a tip when they need support.
At home – Use the poster as a tool for emotional check-ins and to build a calm-down routine during difficult moments.
In therapy and counselling settings – A useful resource for one-to-one or group work around emotional regulation, anger management, or anxiety.
With children who have autism, ADHD, or sensory needs – Offers structured, visual strategies to support calm and reduce overwhelm.
As part of mental health and wellbeing programmes – A positive addition to social-emotional learning (SEL) toolkits, PSHE lessons, or behaviour plans.
This free tear-off calming poster supports children in learning how to recognise their anger and choose helpful ways to calm down. It is an effective and empowering tool to help them build lifelong emotional regulation skills.
