Resources
Download resources to incorporate into your educational program targeting emotional self-regulation or use these as a springboard for your own resource planning.
Emotion thermometer
This poster can be used to discuss the different intensities of emotions. It can help your group develop a common language around emotional presentation and can be referred to throughout the day to help children monitor their emotions. Print and display in a high visibility area.
The aim is to assist children in maintaining emotional presence in the green zone for the majority of the day.
Extended emotion thermometer
Use this poster as both an instructional tool and as a prompt. Deepen children's self-awareness, by allowing them to brainstorm their own emotional displays and helpful activities in each zone. Print and display the poster in a high visibility area and refer to it throughout the day to support children's self-regulation.
Cue cards
Print and laminate these cue cards to support children's self-regulation. Discuss each strategy with the group prior to using the cards. Have the children identify which strategy might be most helpful for them personally at each emotional zone. You might like to attach them to a lanyard for easy access throughout the day. You can begin by providing children with a card to follow during moments of intense emotional expression. As children develop self-awareness, you might present two choices and later let the children choose a card from the pack themselves.
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Colouring sheets
Provide children with the opportunity to review their knowledge on self-regulation through these colouring sheets. Print and send completed products home to communicate self-regulation techniques the children are learning and to share and transfer the learning to the home environment.
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Visual schedule board
Print, laminate and attach Velcro to the centre of these strips to create a visual schedule and finished board. Here you will post the days schedule of activities and move them to 'finished' as you progress through your day. Visual schedules support children's self-regulation, as they provide predictability.
