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10-10-10

3 minutes

Will this matter in 10 minutes? 10 months? 10 years? Most worries don't make it far.

9–12Anxietyhome

Anger journal

10 minutes

Track the anger — the trigger, the thought, the action, the aftermath.

9–12Angerhome

Anger triggers list

12 minutes

Map the things that reliably set it off — so they stop being surprises.

8–12Angerhome

Angry pillow

2 minutes

Give the anger somewhere to go that won't hurt anyone.

2–5Angerhome

Bear breathing

3 minutes

Slow, deep breaths shaped like a bear hug.

2–5Anxietyhome

Big body squeeze

2 minutes

Deep pressure for a small body that feels scared and shaky.

2–5Anxietyhome

Body scan check-in

4 minutes

A slow head-to-toe check to find where the worry is hiding.

6–9Anxietyhome

Box breathing

4 minutes

Four counts in, four hold, four out, four hold. Repeat until the system resets.

9–12Anxietyanywhere

Breathing log

3 minutes

Track when a breathing technique helped — and when it didn't. Both answers matter.

7–11Anxietyhome

Bubble breathing

3 minutes

Slow the breath by trying to make the biggest, slowest bubble.

4–6Anxietyhome

Calm spot

10 minutes

Find and name the one spot where their anxiety gets quieter.

4–8Anxietyhome

Carry their picture

5 minutes

Find a photo together. Put it somewhere they can always find it.

2–5Griefhome

Color the feeling

10 minutes

A blank face. They color in the feeling.

2–5Literacyhome

Continuing bonds

20 minutes

Grief isn't about moving on. It's about carrying them with you differently.

8–12Griefhome

Cool-down menu

10 minutes

Build a personal menu of what actually works — before you need it.

7–11Angerhome

Cost-benefit of anger

10 minutes

Is acting on this anger actually going to get you what you want?

10–12Angerhome

Draw the angry

8 minutes

Put the anger on paper before it comes out somewhere harder.

4–8Angerhome

Draw them

10 minutes

Draw the person or pet who is gone — exactly how you remember them.

4–8Griefhome

Drawing what's heavy

20 minutes

A quiet drawing prompt for after a loss. They lead.

6–10Griefhome

Emotion charades: advanced

10 minutes

Act out the harder feelings — the ones without obvious faces.

7–11Literacyhome

Emotion log

3 minutes

Track one emotion a day for a week. Then find the patterns.

9–12Literacyhome

Facts vs fears

8 minutes

Sort what the worry is saying from what is actually happening.

8–12Anxietyhome

Feeling detectives

10 minutes

Read a picture book and stop to find the feelings hiding in it.

4–8Literacyhome

Feelings and bodies

10 minutes

Map four feelings onto four bodies. They always look different.

6–10Literacyhome

Feelings charades

10 minutes

Act out a feeling. Everyone guesses. Then name it.

4–8Literacyhome

Feelings in others

10 minutes

Practice reading emotions in faces and body language — not just words.

7–11Literacyhome

Find something soft

3 minutes

A simple sensory search to bring a worried toddler back to the room.

2–4Anxietyhome

Five things you can see

3 minutes

A grounding count-down for when worry is loud.

6–12Anxietyanywhere

Four feelings chart

2 minutes

A simple daily check-in: circle how you feel today.

4–8Literacyhome

Goodnight ritual

3 minutes

Include the one who is gone in the bedtime routine.

2–5Griefhome

Grief in my body

10 minutes

Color where the missing feeling lives in the body.

6–10Griefhome

Grief waves

5 minutes

Grief doesn't go in a straight line. It comes in waves — and the waves change over time.

8–12Griefhome

How big is the feeling?

3 minutes

Use your arms to show how big the feeling is right now.

2–6Literacyhome

Ice cube hands

2 minutes

Hold an ice cube. The cold pulls you back to your body.

8–12Angerhome

Letter to them

15 minutes

Write to the person who is gone. Say what hasn't been said out loud.

6–12Griefhome

Lion breath

2 minutes

Breathe in like a lion waking up. Roar it all out.

3–7Angerhome

Mad face mirror

3 minutes

Make the maddest face you can together. Then try a different one.

2–5Angerhome

Mad, sad, scared, glad

5 minutes

Four feelings, four movements. Call one out and do it together.

4–7Literacyhome

Memory jar

20 minutes

Fold a small memory into the jar. Keep them all.

6–12Griefhome

More words for mad

8 minutes

Mad is just the start. There are thirty words between fine and furious.

6–10Literacyhome

My worry cloud

8 minutes

Draw the worry in the cloud. Then watch it drift.

4–7Anxietyhome

Name that face

5 minutes

Look at faces together and name what each one is feeling.

2–5Literacyhome

Name the knot

6 minutes

Locate where the worry sits in the body. Give it a shape.

8–12Anxietyhome

Name the secondary emotion

10 minutes

The feeling we show is often not the one we're really having.

10–12Literacyhome

Opposite action

3 minutes

When anger says attack or shut down, do the exact opposite — and feel what shifts.

10–12Angerhome

Permission list

10 minutes

Read the list out loud together. All of these are allowed.

10–12Griefhome

Red zone check

8 minutes

Learn to catch the anger when it's still orange — before it hits red.

4–9Angerhome

Rip it up

2 minutes

Old newspaper, a pile of paper, and permission to destroy it.

5–10Angerhome

Safe hands

2 minutes

When the world feels too big, find an adult hand and hold on.

2–4Anxietyhome

Squeeze and let go

2 minutes

Squeeze every muscle as tight as you can. Then drop it all at once.

2–6Angerhome

Stomp and shake

2 minutes

The mad has to go somewhere. Let it out, on purpose.

2–6Angerhome

Stop, think, act

10 minutes

Practice the three-second pause between the trigger and the response.

6–10Angerhome

Tell me one thing

5 minutes

One small memory, shared out loud. No pressure for more.

4–9Griefhome

The 90-second rule

4 minutes

The anger chemical lasts 90 seconds. After that, a thought has to re-trigger it — every single time.

9–12Angerhome

The anxiety ladder

20 minutes

Map the scary thing from least scary to most. Start at the bottom rung.

8–12Anxietyhome

The comfort object

10 minutes

Find one small thing that belonged to them. Let the child keep it close.

2–6Griefhome

The emotion wheel

12 minutes

Start with one word. Work outward until you find the precise one.

8–12Literacyhome

The feelings thermometer

8 minutes

Color in where your feeling is on a scale of 1 to 10.

5–10Literacyhome

The goodbye box

20 minutes

A box that holds small things that remind them. Theirs to add to whenever.

4–9Griefhome

The mad map

10 minutes

Map where anger lives in the body — and what it might be trying to protect.

6–10Angerhome

The worry window

10 minutes

Set a 10-minute appointment with the worry. Then close it.

8–12Anxietyhome

Thought clouds

10 minutes

Write the scary thought. Then write what's actually true.

6–9Anxietyhome

Thought record

12 minutes

The classic CBT tool, for an older kid who wants to understand their own mind.

10–12Anxietyhome

Two feelings at once

8 minutes

It's possible to feel happy and sad at the same time. Both are allowed.

6–10Griefhome

Unsent letter

20 minutes

Write what was never said — the hard parts, the complicated parts, all of it.

10–12Griefhome

Values check

12 minutes

Strong feelings usually signal that something important to you was touched.

10–12Literacyhome

Volcano breathing

4 minutes

Big arms up like an eruption, then slow hands down.

4–7Angerhome

Walk like you feel

3 minutes

Move your whole body like the feeling. No words needed.

2–5Literacyhome

What I want to remember

20 minutes

Write it down before the details start to fade.

7–12Griefhome

What they taught me

20 minutes

Find the parts of them that are now part of you.

10–12Griefhome

What's underneath?

8 minutes

Anger is often the top layer. Find what's underneath it.

8–12Literacyhome

Wiggle and freeze

3 minutes

Shake the nervous energy out. Then notice the quiet after.

5–8Anxietyhome