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Coping Skills

Pool Noodle Fidget Toys

Pool Noodle Stress RelieversPool Noodle Fidget Toys are an easy DIY project you can make for, or with, your kids. They are cheaper than fidget spinners, squishies and other fidget toys, and you can mass produce them with relative ease. I’ve worked with kids for years, and for many of those years I was in charge of games with a large group of students. Ever since that time, I’ve kept a box of pool noodles in my basement, because you never know when you’re going to need them! (FYI, you can get a box fairly cheap after summer is over). A standard pool noodle can be used to create 42 fidget toys. Here’s all you need to know:

63 inches – 42 stress relievers

Items Need For Project

  • Pool Noodles
  • Scissors or a Knife
  • Ruler
  • Pencil

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April 5, 2018by Wayne Stocks
Understanding Emotions

Emotion Cards

emotion cardsA significant part of helping kids to deal with their emotions (Jump In! Stand Strong! Rise Up!) is helping them to develop a robust feelings vocabulary. That is why we are excited to present our very own set of Hope 4 Hurting Kids Emotion Cards.

What Are Emotion Cards?

Each of these 54 cards includes the name of an emotion, a face demonstrating that emotion, and a brief definition of the feeling. Definition have been taken from, or adapted from entries in the WordNet® lexical database of English. The emotions included in this deck of feelings cards were extracted from our upcoming book 150 Emotions Every Kids Should Know – By Age (coming, hopefully, in late 2018).

How Do I Get These Cards?

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April 3, 2018by Wayne Stocks
Understanding Emotions

Feelings Pictionary

Feelings PictionaryFeelings Pictionary is a new take on an old game that help kids to learn about emotions while having fun at the same time. It’s a great game for small groups, schools or family game night. This game builds on the history of games like Pictionary; Win, Lose or Draw and Draw Something to create an environment where kids and adults can explore what emotions look like in all kinds of fun ways. All you need to play is two sets of cards that you can download here at Hope 4 Hurting Kids and something to draw on.

The Hope 4 Hurting Kids Emotion Cards

The first set of cards you will need is our free Hope 4 Hurting Kids Emotion Cards. Each of these 54 cards includes the name of a emotion, a face demonstrating that emotion, and a brief definition of the feeling. Unlike regular Pictionary where the drawer only needs to get their team to guess the object they are drawing, in Feelings Pictionary the teammates will have to guess both the object and the emotion shown on the Emotion Card.

The Feelings Pictionary Cards

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April 3, 2018by Wayne Stocks
Coping Skills

Lazy 8 Breathing

Lazy 8 BreathingLazy 8 Breathing is a very simple technique to help teach kids deep breathing. Deep breathing is a foundational skill when it comes to coping and is a vital part in the Please Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff coping tool box. Whether you find the number 8 in a magazine or book or draw your own on a sheet paper, you can quickly and easily teach kids a simple method to practice deep breathing.

How Does Lazy 8 Breathing Work

Have the child trace the number 8 with their finger. Obviously, the speed will vary depending on the size of the 8, but try to have the child trace the eight in such a way that tracing each side of the eight takes about 3-4 seconds. As the child traces one side of the 8, they should breath in deeply through their nose. As they cross the intersection line and trace the other side, have them breathe out through their mouth. That’s it! We told you it was easy, but it is a simple and effective way for kids of all ages to remember how to breathe deeply in order to cope with difficult circumstances.

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March 30, 2018by Wayne Stocks
Understanding Emotions

Emotion Face Plates

Emotion Face PlatesEmotion Face Plates are a fun way to get kids thinking about what emotions look like. Emotion Face Plates are an easy project that you can do with objects lying around your house, and once you get kids started, it is something they can continue to work on by themselves.

Supply Listing for Emotion Face Plates

This is a fairly simple task. All you need is:

  • Paper plates (that you can write on).
  • Markers, pens or crayons.
  • Scissors (if you want to make the half-plate emotion faces).

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March 29, 2018by Wayne Stocks
Understanding Emotions

Emotion Egg Faces

Easter Egg FacesWith Easter coming up soon, it’s a great time to stock up on empty Easter Eggs. These Emotion Egg Faces are a simple, fun and captivating way to help kids learn about, and express, emotions. They can be utilized for several of the steps in the The Super Simple Feelings Management Technique.

How to Make Emotion Egg Faces

  • All you need for this craft is empty Easter Eggs, a marker and some clay or play-doh (optional).
  • Draw a different emotion face on each Easter Egg. The eyes and the nose should go on the top half of the egg with the mouth on the bottom.
  • Put a piece of clay in the bottom of each egg. This helps them to stand up better (you can see we used stands made out of pool noodle for the picture above)

How to Use Emotion Egg Faces

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March 27, 2018by Wayne Stocks
Understanding Emotions

Emotions Spoon Race

Emotions Spoon RaceThe Emotions Spoon Race is a fun and active way to help kids to better understand their emotions. It combines all the fun a traditional egg on spoons relay race with an improved emotional vocabulary and awareness. Make sure to check out our video from the first time we played this game at the bottom of this post.

What You’ll Need for the Emotions Spoon Race

  • A package of ping-pong balls. We actually used balls which don’t officially qualify as ping-pong balls. They’re a lot cheaper and actually easier to write on. We used white ping-pong balls this time, but I also bought a package of colored ones.
  • A bucket or container for the ping-pong balls.
  • A listing of emotion words. We selected 68 words to include. A listing of those words is can be found here.
  • A fine tip marker to write on the balls.
  • Spoons
  • Hula Hoops, buckets or something else to collect the balls the racers carry.
  • A copy of our Super Simple Feelings Management Technique Activity Cards.

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March 22, 2018by Wayne Stocks
Understanding Emotions

Emotions Paper Chain

Emotions Paper ChainThe emotions paper chain is a fun craft you can do with kids and can be a crucial part of the Talk About It! component of The Super Simple Feelings Management Technique.

What You Need to Make An Emotion Paper Chain

  1. Various colors of construction paper.
  2. Scissors
  3. A marker, pen, pencil or crayons.
  4. Tape or glue

How To Make an Emotion Paper Chain

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March 20, 2018by Wayne Stocks
Understanding Emotions

Row Row Row Your Boat Emotion Game

row your boat

The Row Row Row Your Boat Emotion Game is a fun way to talk to kids about emotions and what they sound like. It can be a valuable tool in the The Super Simple Feelings Management Technique for See It, Say It and Mimic It. Here’s how it works:

  1. Use a set of emotion cards, an emotion chart or just your own imagination to throw out an emotion to another player.
  2. The player must hum the song Row Row Row your boat sounding like the emotion given.
  3. Laugh and have fun.

It’s that simple! You can use whatever song you want, but we selected Row Row Row Your Boat as a song that virtually everyone knows. A fun game to play if you have a deck of emotion cards (the Hope 4 Hurting Kids Emotion cards are coming soon) would be to have the player select the emotion then have the other plays guess the emotion being hummed. You could also have the player pick the song they will be doing and have other player name both the emotion and the song. Break into teams and see how many each team can get in a given amount of time.

Credit to my 10-year-old Nathan who helped me come up with this game over dinner after soccer practice. Here’s a little video we made demonstrating the game. Please forgive the poor sound quality – it’s the best we could get with a phone and sitting at Arby’s!

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March 13, 2018by Wayne Stocks
Understanding Emotions

The Pigeon Has Feelings, Too! by Mo Willems (An H4HK Review)

Pigeon Has Feelings

About the Book

The Pigeon Has Feelings, Too! is the sequel to the popular Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! book. It follows the activities of a pigeon and his acquaintance the bus driver.

Who Is This Book For?

The Pigeon Has Feelings, Too! is a board book aimed primarily at younger children and potentially very early readers. It recommended age range is 0-4.

Our Synopsis of the Book

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March 6, 2018by Wayne Stocks
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