Resilience: Activity Center
Use these fun, family-friendly kids games and activities to get your kids bouncing back. There are activities for all age levels, so try one today.
Ingredient: Optimism, Emotional Awareness, Goal Setting/Hope, Resilience, Empowerment
Starting school again can be stressful on a lot of kids. So grab a picnic
blanket, throw it over your dinner table, and delve into your favorite summer
memories with this simple activity.
Ingredient: Optimism, Emotional Awareness, Goal Setting/Hope, Resilience, Empowerment
"Flow" occurs when you are fully immersed in an activity. We can help children experience "Flow" by identifying activities that require them to use their strengths, skills, and talents to the max.
Ingredient: Optimism, Emotional Awareness, Goal Setting/Hope, Resilience, Empowerment
Summer is a great time for a family service project to teach social responsibility. To get started, use the “Be the Change” worksheet to brainstorm and identify an appropriate project.
Ingredient: Optimism, Emotional Awareness, Goal Setting/Hope, Resilience, Empowerment
We do things to keep learning from fading during the summer, but have you ever thought of doing the opposite - helping your kids keep their “summer learning” from fading during the school year?
Ingredient: Optimism, Emotional Awareness, Goal Setting/Hope, Resilience
Savor spring and relish in positive emotions with this family-fun, easy game.
Ingredient: Optimism, Emotional Awareness, Goal Setting/Hope, Resilience, Empowerment
Help your children focus on the good in the world with this optimistic, family-fun activity.
Ingredient: Optimism, Emotional Awareness, Goal Setting/Hope, Resilience, Empowerment
To build a strength, you have to practice! Pick a strength with your child, then make a few weekly goals to improve it.
- Kindergarten - Grade 2
- Grades 3-5
- Grades 5 & Up
Ingredient: Optimism, Emotional Awareness, Goal Setting/Hope, Resilience, Empowerment
This is a great way to help your kids recognize their strengths, and help them notice strengths in others, too!
- Kindergarten - Grade 2
- Grades 3-5
- Grades 5 & Up
Ingredient: Empowerment, Goal Setting/Hope, Resilience
You can use the Got Grit? Chart to identify a passion, set a goal, and write positive statements that help your child stay focused even when things get hard.
Ingredient: Resilience, Goal Setting/Hope
You can help your child think about taking appropriate risks through this fun activity.
Ingredient: Optimism, Emotional Awareness, Goal Setting/Hope, Resilience, Empowerment
Here are some ideas for creating family rituals and traditions. Include your children in so that everyone enjoys them!
Ingredient: Optimism, Emotional Awareness, Goal Setting/Hope, Resilience, Empowerment
An End-of-Year family ritual for your family to reflect and build upon Fishful Thinking skills.
- Kindergarten - Grade 2
- Grades 3-5
- Grades 5 & Up
Ingredient: Optimism, Emotional Awareness, Goal Setting/Hope, Resilience, Empowerment
Reflect on accomplishments of the past school year and make goals for the next one with this simple poster activity.
- Kindergarten - Grade 2
- Grades 3-5
- Grades 5 & Up
Ingredient: Optimism, Emotional Awareness, Goal Setting/Hope, Resilience, Empowerment
A great, family-fun way to keep your kids busy with things they enjoy that will also enrich their lives.
Ingredient: Emotional Awareness, Optimism, Resilience
You're likely very attentive when your child comes to you with a problem, but what about when they come to you with good news?
Ingredient: Optimism, Resilience, Emotional Awareness
Build this simple, daily breathing activity into your schedule to feel more relaxed, resilient, and rejuvenated.
Ingredient: Emotional Awareness, Optimism, Empowerment, Resilience, Goal Setting
An End-of-Year family ritual for your family to reflect and build upon Fishful Thinking skills.
Ingredient: Optimism, Resilience, Goal-Setting/Hope, Empowerment, Emotional Awareness
Help your children develop empathy through these simple, family-fun role-playing games.
- Kindergarten - Grade 2
- Grades 3-5
Ingredient: Resilience
A critical component of resilience is being willing to call a "Do Over." Figure out how to do that with this activity.
Ingredient: Optimism, Resilience, Goal-Setting, Empowerment, Emotional Awareness
Giving children knowledge of their strengths is a great way to empower them. Create a Strength Family Tree together.
- Kindergarten - Grade 2
- Grades 3-5
- Grades 5 & Up
Ingredient: Optimism, Resilience, Empowerment, Emotional Awareness
Encourage your whole family to create and display a list of activities that bring them joy.
- Kindergarten - Grade 2
- Grades 3-5
- Grades 5 & Up
Ingredient: Optimism, Resilience, Hope, Empowerment, Emotional Awareness
Help your children to take stock of and clean out the "mental clutter."
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.
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.
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.
Ingredient: Empowerment, Resilience, Optimism
Challenge yourself to praise not just the moments your child succeeds, but the steps they took to get there.
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.
Ingredient: Optimism, Resilience
The purpose of this family-fun game is to help children develop the ability to see a situation from another person's perspective.
- Kindergarten - Grade 2
- Grades 3-5
- Grades 5 & Up
Ingredient: Optimism, Resilience
The goal of this family-fun activity is to help children find positive meaning in a negative event.
- Kindergarten - Grade 2
- Grades 3-5
- Grades 5 & Up
Ingredient: Optimism, Resilience
The goal of this family-fun activity is to help children identify several possible causes of a problem.
