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.
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, Resilience
The goal of this activity is to help children identify several possible causes of a problem.
Ingredient: Empowerment, Resilience, Optimism
Challenge yourself to praise not just the moments your child succeeds, but the steps they took to get there.
Ingredient: Optimism, Resilience
The goal of this activity is to help children find positive meaning in a negative event.
- Kindergarten - Grade 2
- Grades 3-5
- Grades 5 & Up
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 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, 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: 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: 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, Empowerment, Resilience, Goal Setting
Any "downtime" you have with the kids can be the perfect time to discuss positive changes with your child.
