Help kids learn, practice, and remember coping skills through creative, hands-on arts and crafts!

The Skills for Big Feelings Coping Skills Craftivities eBook includes 40 engaging coping skills craft projects in a comprehensive 221-page printable resource. Each project introduces or reinforces a specific coping strategy, giving children a creative way to explore emotional regulation, mindfulness, relaxation, and self-management.

Created as a companion to Skills for Big Feelings: A Guide for Teaching Kids Relaxation, Regulation, and Coping Techniques, these activities can also be used as standalone counseling interventions. They're a great way to bring social-emotional learning into individual counseling, small groups, or classroom lessons.

The projects use familiar arts and crafts materials, making them a practical addition to your counseling toolkit. Children can create visual reminders and hands-on tools to help them practice the strategies they've learned.

📦 What's Included:

🎨 Coping Skills Craftivities eBook Details:

✔️ 221-Page Printable eBook

• 40 unique coping skills arts and crafts projects
• Step-by-step instructions for creating hands-on coping tools
• Activities designed to reinforce specific relaxation, mindfulness, emotional regulation, and CBT-inspired strategies
• Projects that complement the Skills for Big Feelings curriculum but can also be used independently

✔️ Skills for Big Feelings Curriculum Connections

• The craft activities are designed to reinforce strategies taught in the Skills for Big Feelings curriculum, providing hands-on opportunities to revisit and practice coping skills

✔️ Craft Projects Included:

⭐ Flying Bird Craftivity

⭐ Smell the Flower Craftivity

⭐ Frog Mouth Craftivity

⭐ Sun and Sand Craftivity

⭐ Gorilla Hug Craftivity

⭐ Snowman Stress Melter Breath Craftivity

⭐ Snail Shell Craftivity

⭐ Flat Tire Craftivity

⭐ Helpful Happy Thoughts Craftivity

⭐ Fly Away, Ladybug Craftivity

⭐ Buddy Breath Craftivity

⭐ Elephant Ears Craftivity

⭐ Measuring Challenges Craftivity

⭐ Ski Jumper Craftivity

⭐ Balloon Breath Craftivity

⭐ Equal Measurements Scale Craftivity

⭐ Orange Squeeze Stress Balls Craftivity

⭐ Equal Breathing Puzzle Craftivity

⭐ Hand Massage Dough Craftivity

⭐ Bumble Bee Breath Craftivity

⭐ Door Squeeze Craftivity

⭐ Unicorn Breath Craftivity

⭐ Ice Cream Twist Craftivity

⭐ Finger Aerobics Mini-Book Craftivity

⭐ Counting for Calm Breathing Board Craftivity

⭐ Sandy Toes Craftivity

⭐ High-Five Breath Craftivity

⭐ Strong Tree Blowing Craftivity

⭐ Tap Tap Squeeze Craftivity

⭐ Flip Flop Nostril Breath Craftivity

⭐ Letting Go Craftivity

⭐ Shake, Wiggle, Shake Craftivity

⭐ Starfish Breath Craftivity

⭐ Steel to Jelly Foldable Craftivity

⭐ Finger Lock Robot Craftivity

⭐ Cell Phone Breath Craftivity

⭐ Grounding Flipbook Craftivity

⭐ Sunny Breathing Mobile Craftivity

⭐ Feeling-Breath-Thought-Skill (F-B-T-S) Rocket Craftivity

⭐ The CBT Triangle Pizza Craftivity

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🎒 Quick Details: 221-page eBook | 🎨 40 coping skills craft projects | 🧠 CBT-inspired SEL activities | 🌬️ Mindfulness + relaxation | ✂️ Hands-on projects | 🖨️ Printable digital resource

🛍️ Bundle & Save:

Want these crafts at a discount? Check out the comprehensive Skills for Big Feelings growing bundle:

🌟 Skills for Big Feelings eBook Growing Bundle

🌟 Skills for Big Feelings Paperback Gorwing Bundle

This expanded bundle brings together the Skills for Big Feelings curriculum, the 40-project Coping Skills Craftivities eBook, interactive workbooks, coping skills games, printable activities, guided relaxation recordings, and additional supplemental resources.

The Growing Bundle offers a way to purchase the larger collection together rather than purchasing resources individually.

🎯 Skills Addressed:

✔️ Emotional regulation and self-management

✔️ Mindful breathing and relaxation strategies

✔️ Recognizing and practicing coping skills

✔️ Body awareness and somatic practices

✔️ Flexible thinking and problem-solving

✔️ Frustration tolerance and responding to mistakes

✔️ Creativity, planning, and fine motor skills

💡 Ways to Use It:

• Introduce a new coping strategy through a hands-on craft project
• Reinforce skills taught during individual counseling sessions
• Incorporate projects into small-group counseling activities
• Use crafts during classroom social-emotional learning lessons
• Create take-home coping tools that children can revisit with their families
• Offer creative, movement-based, and tactile alternatives to traditional worksheets
• Pair projects with lessons from the Skills for Big Feelings curriculum

👩‍🏫 Who It's For:

Perfect for school counselors, school social workers, school psychologists, child therapists, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, special education teachers, classroom teachers, and other professionals who support children's emotional regulation and coping skills.

These activities are especially useful for practitioners looking for creative, hands-on ways to reinforce social-emotional learning through arts and crafts.

🖨️ Format & Download:

✔️ 221-page digital eBook

✔️ 40 printable coping skills craft projects

✔️ Step-by-step craft instructions

✔️ Activities that can be used individually or alongside the Skills for Big Feelings curriculum

The activities use basic art and school supplies, which are not included with the digital purchase.

📌 Important Notes:

• This is the standalone Coping Skills Craftivities eBook, not the complete Skills for Big Feelings curriculum or Ultimate Growing Bundle
• Although the projects complement the Skills for Big Feelings program, individual crafts can also be used independently
• Choose and adapt projects based on each student's developmental needs, sensory preferences, interests, and available materials
• This is a digital download. No physical product will be shipped. Due to the digital nature of this resource, all sales are final and refunds are not available