3-IN-1 Family Fun BUNDLE for SUMMER VACATION
3-IN-1 Family Fun BUNDLE for SUMMER and MINDFULNESS
includes printable artwork for:
1. COOL as a CAT Game
2. My PEACEFUL Place
3. Name that FEELING
1. COOL as a CAT Game
We all experience fear, anxiety, stress, and other emotions that make us anything but calm. No one behaves well in emotionally charged situations. But if we learn to PAUSE and give ourselves time to calm down and think before reacting, we live happier and more successful lives. Use this game to encourage family members to PAUSE. When you are angry, scared, anxious, or frustrated, count to ten and take some deep breaths. Then go move your COOL CAT one square forward toward the treat under the gift box. Cats hate water, so if this COOL CAT can calm himself long enough to swim across the pool, so can you.
2. My PEACEFUL Place
My PEACEFUL Place is what you imagine in your mind when you feel afraid, anxious, angry, hurt, frustrated, or stressed. It helps you calm yourself down so that you feel better, behave better, learn better, and perform better. It could be somewhere you’ve never been and just imagined you would enjoy, or it might be somewhere you experienced before that left you with warm, happy memories. Use the ten My PEACEFUL Place cards to talk about what someone might see, hear, smell, taste, and feel while they are in each of these peaceful places. This will help you create your own PEACEFUL place - to go to whenever you need to calm your emotions.
3. Name that FEELING
Children, as well as adults, are easily overwhelmed by emotions that they don’t know how to explain. Good relationships make for happier and more successful lives, and it takes good communication to make those relationships work. Conflict is especially difficult if we don’t know how to describe what we are feeling and we don’t know how to read the signs (facial expressions, body language, and behavior) that tell us how others are feeling. Use the 12 FEELING cards to talk about what it looks like when someone else is angry, sad, jealous, frustrated, afraid, ashamed, etc. You can also use these cards - in the heat of the moment - to help each other label what you are feeling.
