Resilience: Activity Center

Use these fun, family-friendly activities to get your kids bouncing back. There are activities for all age levels, so try one today.

If You Feel It, Talk About it

Ingredient: Emotional Awareness, Resilience, Empowerment

You can help your child to develop the skill of emotional awareness by showing them that you are interested in how they feel—and by talking about your own feelings as well.

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  • All Ages

Creating Your Joy List

Ingredient: Optimism, Resilience, Empowerment, Emotional Awareness

Encourage your whole family to create and display a list of activities that bring them joy.

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  • Kindergarten - Grade 2
  • Grades 3-5
  • Grades 5 & Up

Positive Habits

Ingredient: Optimism, Empowerment, Resilience, Goal Setting

Any "downtime" you have with the kids can be the perfect time to discuss positive changes with your child.

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  • Grades 3-5
  • Grades 5 & Up

Silver Lining Game

Ingredient: Optimism, Resilience

The goal of this activity is to help children find positive meaning in a negative event.

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  • Kindergarten - Grade 2
  • Grades 3-5
  • Grades 5 & Up

Praise with Purpose

Ingredient: Empowerment, Resilience, Optimism

Challenge yourself to praise not just the moments your child succeeds, but the steps they took to get there.

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  • All Ages

Bag it Up

Ingredient: Optimism, Resilience, Hope, Empowerment, Emotional Awareness

Help your children to take stock of and clean out the "mental clutter."

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  • Grades 3-5
  • Grades 5 & Up

What would you do?

Ingredient: Empowerment, resilience, emotional awareness, hope/goal setting, optimism

Learning how to make good decisions and to problem solve is a way to build mastery skills.

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  • Grades 3-5
  • Grades 5 & Up

In Your Shoes

Ingredient: Optimism, Resilience

The purpose of this game is to help children develop the ability to see a situation from another person's perspective.

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  • Kindergarten - Grade 2
  • Grades 3-5
  • Grades 5 & Up

Letting go of Grudges

Ingredient: Emotional Awareness, Optimism, Empowerment, Resilience

Help your child communicate and work through a grudge with a set of simple circles and a positive attitude.

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  • Grades 3-5
  • Grades 5 & Up

Slicing the Pie

Ingredient: Optimism, Resilience

The goal of this activity is to help children identify several possible causes of a problem.

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  • Grades 3-5

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