Emotional awareness and positive thinking are the main skills explored in Mindmate-Journal-KS1, a printable KS1 wellbeing workbook for children aged 5 to 7. The pages use drawing, labelling, and simple prompts rather than long written answers, making it suitable for younger children who may find it hard to explain worry, anxiety, sadness, anger, embarrassment, or feeling loved in words.
The workbook introduces anxiety as a normal human feeling and explains that it can affect different parts of life. It includes a planning activity where a child can think about when and where they will complete take-home tasks, as well as who they can speak to if they need help or feel stuck. This makes it relevant for school mental health support work, early intervention sessions, nurture groups, and home activities with a parent or carer.
Practical pages include a feelings faces activity where children draw expressions for happy, sad, angry, worried, embarrassed, and loved. Another activity asks children to draw how they are feeling today and mark or label where they feel it most on a body outline, supporting body clues, self-awareness, and emotional literacy for young children.
A positive thinking section asks children to draw at least one thing each day that has made them laugh or feel happy, with spaces for Monday through Sunday. Teachers, pastoral staff, child wellbeing practitioners, and families could use these pages to build a simple wellbeing routine, support conversations after a difficult day, or encourage children to notice enjoyable moments as part of anxiety support.
