This free printable PDF includes 28 wellbeing and calming cards for children, each offering a simple, gentle idea to help kids manage feelings, calm down, and feel better. The cards support emotional regulation, coping skills, self-awareness, and children’s mental health through easy activities that children can try at home, at school, or in therapy.
The resource covers a wide range of child-friendly calming strategies and self-help tools, including naming feelings, deep breathing, mindfulness, relaxation, movement, gratitude, kindness, creativity, rest, talking to a trusted person, spending time outdoors, and taking breaks from screens. These are the kinds of practical calm down ideas, emotional wellbeing activities, and coping strategies that parents, teachers, and professionals often look for when supporting children with anxiety, stress, worries, anger, overwhelm, or big emotions.
Each SEMH card uses warm, simple language and an engaging visual prompt, making the resource especially helpful for younger children who need clear and manageable ways to build emotional literacy, resilience, and healthy daily habits. It is a useful printable for calm corners, emotional check-ins, one-to-one support, wellbeing sessions, nurture groups, pastoral support, and everyday family routines. This children’s ELSA wellbeing resource can help parents, carers, teachers, teaching assistants, school counsellors, social workers, therapists, and other professionals who want practical emotional regulation activities and calming tools for kids.
