My Worry Container is a simple and child-friendly emotional wellbeing worksheet that helps children and young people understand, express, and manage worries in a safe and visual way. It uses the metaphor of a container with a lid to help children explore what they worry about, what helps them feel calm or safe, and what makes worries feel too big or overwhelming.
This printable worksheet supports children, kids, and young people who experience anxiety, stress, big feelings, or emotional overwhelm. It encourages emotional awareness, emotional literacy, and self-reflection by guiding children to write or draw their worries, identify coping strategies that help keep worries manageable, and recognise triggers that can cause worries to escalate.
The resource also includes a reflective section where children can share one thing they wish others understood about their worries. This can support communication, emotional expression, and relationships with adults and peers.
This worksheet is suitable for use with children and young people in one-to-one work, school settings, therapy, counselling, and family support. It can be used by parents, carers, teachers, social workers, and other professionals supporting children’s mental health, emotional wellbeing, and behaviour.
The resource is provided as a printable PDF and is designed to be accessible, gentle, and non-threatening, making it especially helpful for children who find it hard to talk about worries directly.
