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What’s New This Week? – 29th July

Posted on by Brandon Hudson
This week we have a brand new 30+ page resource to help you get your little ones ready for starting school, plus a mini activity pack all about empathy.
It might be the start of the summer holidays for most, but this year’s 4 and 5 year olds will be gearing up for one of the biggest changes in their lives! This age group of kids has recently been stated by teachers as being the most impacted by the pandemic, so we have developed a resource pack to help them prepare for their first day.
 
We know you can hardly believe the time has come for your little one to start school, and it’s important we realise that this is just as much a transition for you as the parent or carer. How to help my child get ready for starting school – we’ve created this pack to help your child feel calm about their first day. You’ll find over 30 mindful and learning based activities, plus feelings trackers, milestone posters to mark the occasion, calming strategies and much more.
 
Rainbow Breathing Craft – A great new, calming and mindful activity for kids. Rainbow breathing is a popular deep breathing technique for kids where they trace their finger along the rainbow’s stripes whilst taking big, deep breaths. Use our template to create your own rainbow wall hanger, then whenever your child feels anxious or overwhelmed, they can trace the stripes to help them feel calm.
 
Empathy Activity Pack – Five activities – Empathy improves our capacity to communicate with others, help your child to improve their empathetic skills with these fun activity sheets. We think that empathy is a big part of being a superhero and helping others, so we’ve got a few superhero themed empathy resources for kids in this pack – use your child’s favourite superhero to help them learn all about what empathy means and why it is after all, the most important super power.
 
Sunny Faces is a new summer themed doodling activity. We love a good doodle – doodling can lower stress and calm the mind. Here, have your child can draw faces on the suns – can they draw a different emotion each time? Or can they draw the different emotions summer brings? There are lots of fun ways to use this activity sheet!
 
You can download all these now from the Be Happy Hub. Not a member? Sign up now for just £1.99 a month, or £19.99 for the year.
 
Don’t have a printer? Don’t forget we have our Print & Post option for members starting from just £3!

6 Fun Summer Wellbeing Activities for Kids

Posted on by Brandon Hudson
School’s out and we know you’re thinking of ways to keep the kids busy over the next six weeks, luckily, we’re here to help! Check out some of our summer themed wellbeing resources below. Sign up to access over 200 feel-good downloadable activities now.
It can be hard to keep the kids calm over the school holidays, but we can help you look after your child’s wellbeing and make sure they feel safe, loved and happy this summer. If you’re looking for easy activity ideas to do at home to keep them busy and feeling good, see our favourite resources below!
 
Summer Scavenger Hunt – This is one of our most popular newest summer activities for kids! This can be completed at the beach, on a walk, abroad or in the garden. Scavenger hunts are great to get kids focusing on their surroundings, helping them to become more mindful of the world around them and engage their senses. Download this from the Hub now.
 
Summer Senses – The perfect activity to calm excited, anxious or frustrated minds. The summer holidays can bring a mix of emotions and an abrupt end to well versed routines – this mindful activity for kids can help your children feel relaxed and more in tune with their emotions. This resource works by incorporating one of the most common grounding techniques, using all five senses to calm the mind – focusing on the sounds, smells and tastes of summer.
 
Coping Ice Creams – A fun activity to get your children thinking about what helps them to feel calm. This cut out activity encourages your child to think about what works for them – writing their favourite techniques on the ice creams and assigning each technique a corresponding flavour. After they’ve written on the ice creams, it’s time to cut them out and build their favourite coping ice cream using all the flavours they like best. Extra mindful activity – can you ask your child to imagine how each flavour will taste? Warning – this activity may have you running for the ice cream van!
 
Summer Bucket List – The perfect family feel-good activity! Gather the family round and come up with all the things you want to do this summer, and it doesn’t have to be expensive. In fact, we challenge you to think of 9 cheap and cheerful things to tick off your family bucket list! Think fish and chips at the beach or a movie night in the garden… share a picture of your list on social media and tick off as you go!
 
Sunny Faces – Coming this Friday! – A cheerful resource drawing faces on the suns – how many emotions can your child think of and draw? Can they correspond the emotions on the suns to how they’re feeling? Or perhaps they could draw the emotions they think summer brings for them. Or – just have fun and draw the silliest faces they can think of! The beauty of these resources is you can print them and do them differently each time.
 
Summer Colouring Sheets – We know that not every child likes colouring, but for most this is a great calming activity. To channel your children’s creativity, why not purchase one of our favourite books – The Day the Crayons Quit – this feel-good story helps your child think out of the box when it comes to colouring. Buy it from Amazon for just £4 and we guarantee your children will re-find their love for colouring!
 
There we have it! Our six favourite summer resources – have you used any of these yet? Let us know your favourite in the comments!
 
Want to join the Hub and download these resources and more – sign up now for just £1.99 a month.

What’s New This Week? – 22nd July

Posted on by Brandon Hudson
It’s officially the summer holidays! Take a look at our new activities and prints this week.
This week we have another new grief activity for kids and a new emotion print. Scroll down to see our latest mental health activities for children age 3-11.
 
Rate Your Worry – A simple and effective worksheet to help your child with any worries they are having. How to help your child ease their worries with this resource – this activity helps your child to acknowledge any worries they have and how distressed they feel about them. It also gets them thinking about any steps they can take to reduce their worry.
 
A new anger resource for kids, our Anger Thermometer helps your child to recognise when they are becoming angry so that they are able to manage it more effectively. This print allows them to point on the scale to how angry they are feeling, using associated colour shades, and think about ways they can stay in the green.
 
A fun feel-good wellbeing game for kids – Roll a Brain Break is sure to release any tension they are feeling. This is also a great grounding exercise to help children through any big emotions they may be feeling, such as frustration, worry or panic, by having them focus on moving parts of their body. All you need is some dice!
 
My Memory Box is our new grief activity for children age 6+. We know that grief can be an uncomfortable subject to talk about, but it’s important that we help our children deal with complicated feelings such as grief with discussions and acknowledgement. This activity helps your child to reflect on their loss, thinking about what they would put in a memory box if they could. These can be actual memories, or objects and items.
 
My Confidence Cup – a quick, colour in activity that boosts self esteem. Ask your child to make a cup of confidence! – Simply write down the three things they like most about themselves and decorate their cup. When they need to feel confident, imagine they are taking a sip from their cup!
 
Finally this week, we’ve also uploaded a new emotion print featuring 25 emojis and emotions. We know that older children age 6+ and those familiar with smart devices particularly respond well to emojis. You can display this print in your classroom, child’s bedroom or use it to discuss emotions and feelings.
 
Which resource is your favourite this week?
 
We are also excited to bring you one of our new resource packs over the next few days – our All About Me Pack will feature over 30 pages of feel-good. activities and worksheets to build confidence, self esteem and resilience.
 
Want to access all these resources and more? Join our Hub now from just £1.99 a month.

Our 6 Most Popular Activities for Easing Worries in Children

Posted on by Brandon Hudson
Here we take you through some of our top resources for easing worries in young children. From breathing exercises, to calming flashcards – take a look below at our most popular anxiety busting activities. You can sign up to access all these and more for just £1.99 a month!
Since launching last year, hundreds of you have been using our resources with children in your care. It always helps us to know which resources you find the most useful – so don’t forget to leave us feedback in the Hub if there’s one you’ve particularly enjoyed.
 
Did you know that in the first lockdown back in 2020, anxiety in young children increased by 45%? This figure is staggering – and referrals for professional support have continued to increase as we navigate back into a new normal.
 
We know how useless it can sometimes feel as a parent watching your child worry or go through the process of professional support. Not knowing how to support/help them at home or what to say to help them feel calm during times of distress. That’s why we create our resources. Take a look at some of our most popular below…
 
Disclaimer: Our resources are not meant to replace professional support, we would always recommend checking in with a doctor if you are concerned about your child’s wellbeing.
 
1. Worry Monster
This activity is suitable for young children age 3+ – let our Worry Monster gobble your child’s worries! How this works – Have your child write their worry in the monster’s big mouth, have them place the worry under their pillow at night and remove when they are asleep.
 
2. My Bag of Worries
What will your child put into their bag of worries? How this works – Our Bag of Worries activity helps your children to identify their most pressing worries to work through. Help them to realise which worries are affecting them the most by writing them on the bag contents and sticking them in place.
 
3. Mindful Morning
A fun way to begin every day – or a calming activity to do when your child is stressed or anxious. Our Mindful Morning print can be displayed in their room or if you’re a teacher – in your classroom. How it works – this poster gives your child 5 quick things to do when they are feeling panicked or overwhelmed by worries.
 
4. Calm Cards
Our Calm Cards have been one of our most popular downloads since we launched in September 2021. How they work – download, print and cut out to create 24 calming flashcards. Keep these in your calm corner and have your child pick one when they are feeling anxious or worried. You can also use these to educate your child on things they can do by themselves when they feel upset, stressed, angry or anxious.
 
5. Mindful Tracing
These Mindful Tracing Cards are a great, calming activity for kids who are feeling anxious and worried. How it works – have your child pick a card and slowly trace their finger along the line, taking deep breaths in and out.
 
6. Nature Breathing Cards
The best thing about our Nature Breathing Cards is that they also double as an outdoor scavenger hunt too! How they work – if you need to calm down a child quickly, then deep breathing is one of the best techniques they can do and learn. This resource contains 8 flashcards to help children who feel overwhelmed. Optional – take these cards with you on your next walk and have a go at finding all these things in nature! Can you find them all?
 
Is there a resource you found that eased worries that’s not listed here? Let us – and others – know in the comments!
 
Not a member? Sign up to the Be Happy Hub now to access these resources.

Our 6 Most Popular Activities for Easing Worries in Children

Posted on by Brandon Hudson
Here we take you through some of our top resources for easing worries in young children. From breathing exercises, to calming flashcards – take a look below at our most popular anxiety busting activities. You can sign up to access all these and more for just £1.99 a month!
Since launching last year, hundreds of you have been using our resources with children in your care. It always helps us to know which resources you find the most useful – so don’t forget to leave us feedback in the Hub if there’s one you’ve particularly enjoyed.
 
Did you know that in the first lockdown back in 2020, anxiety in young children increased by 45%? This figure is staggering – and referrals for professional support have continued to increase as we navigate back into a new normal.
 
We know how useless it can sometimes feel as a parent watching your child worry or go through the process of professional support. Not knowing how to support/help them at home or what to say to help them feel calm during times of distress. That’s why we create our resources. Take a look at some of our most popular below…
 
Disclaimer: Our resources are not meant to replace professional support, we would always recommend checking in with a doctor if you are concerned about your child’s wellbeing.
 
1. Worry Monster
This activity is suitable for young children age 3+ – let our Worry Monster gobble your child’s worries! How this works – Have your child write their worry in the monster’s big mouth, have them place the worry under their pillow at night and remove when they are asleep.
 
2. My Bag of Worries
What will your child put into their bag of worries? How this works – Our Bag of Worries activity helps your children to identify their most pressing worries to work through. Help them to realise which worries are affecting them the most by writing them on the bag contents and sticking them in place.
 
3. Mindful Morning
A fun way to begin every day – or a calming activity to do when your child is stressed or anxious. Our Mindful Morning print can be displayed in their room or if you’re a teacher – in your classroom. How it works – this poster gives your child 5 quick things to do when they are feeling panicked or overwhelmed by worries.
 
4. Calm Cards
Our Calm Cards have been one of our most popular downloads since we launched in September 2021. How they work – download, print and cut out to create 24 calming flashcards. Keep these in your calm corner and have your child pick one when they are feeling anxious or worried. You can also use these to educate your child on things they can do by themselves when they feel upset, stressed, angry or anxious.
 
5. Mindful Tracing
These Mindful Tracing Cards are a great, calming activity for kids who are feeling anxious and worried. How it works – have your child pick a card and slowly trace their finger along the line, taking deep breaths in and out.
 
6. Nature Breathing Cards
The best thing about our Nature Breathing Cards is that they also double as an outdoor scavenger hunt too! How they work – if you need to calm down a child quickly, then deep breathing is one of the best techniques they can do and learn. This resource contains 8 flashcards to help children who feel overwhelmed. Optional – take these cards with you on your next walk and have a go at finding all these things in nature! Can you find them all?
 
Is there a resource you found that eased worries that’s not listed here? Let us – and others – know in the comments!
 
Not a member? Sign up to the Be Happy Hub now to access these resources.

Take a Look Inside our NEW Separation Anxiety Pack for Children Age 6-11

Posted on by Brandon Hudson
Separation anxiety is commonly associated with babies and toddlers, but children of any age can develop this disorder. Take a look inside our new resource pack, which features over 30 pages of exercises and activities to help children age 6-11 become more independent.
 
It’s been a turbulent few years for our primary school age children, having just now finished their first full school year since 2018-2019. It’s no surprise that as time goes on, mental health results from the pandemic are emerging at an alarming rate. At the time of the pandemic, experts predicted that this age group would be the worst affected mentally as we emerged from the lockdown.
 
Since launching our Separation Anxiety Pack for younger children a few months ago, we’ve had lots of requests to create a pack for older children too. Children who not long ago, were told to stay at home to help others and stay safe – now, we’re telling them they have to go out into the world. Are we surprised that children are feeling upset about being away from the place we told them was the safest place in the world?
 
If your child is displaying severe symptoms of being away from you or home, we would urge you to approach your GP. Children with severe separation anxiety will need to be seen by a professional.
 
Disclaimer: Our resources are not meant to replace professional support, we would always recommend checking in with a doctor if you are concerned about your child’s wellbeing.
 
Gaining my Independence – Our New Resource Pack to Help Your Child Become More Confident and Independent!
 
Our new resource pack features 33 pages of journal prompts and activities designed to help increase your child’s confidence and plan for their independence.
We introduce the topic of independence and separation anxiety very early on, with information on why we push them to be independent and how this helps them learn and grow.
 
Our pack is all about helping your child to identify their feelings and help to manage these. We do this by helping them realise what makes them the most upset/worried and where, and then showing them some calming and coping mechanisms further on.
 
We look at how separation anxiety can produce physical symptoms, and encourage your child to explore ways this makes them feel.
 
This resource pack helps your children to identify their fears and worries when away from you and helps them to take some steps to limit these.
 
We provide a number of emotion scales in this pack, helping children to track their progress and identify their feelings through this process.
 
You will also find many calming techniques, from our Coping Cards which you can cut out, to our mindful colouring sheets, breathing techniques and more.
 
5 Finger Breathing is a great calming technique that can be used anywhere!
 
Helping to build your child’s confidence and self esteem can help them feel more confident to become independent. We provide a number of exercises to help them feel more confident and learn more about themselves.
 
We also provide planners and exercises that help your child to feel safe and happy wherever they are.
 
Unlike other educational resource sites, you can download any of our resource packs as part of your membership fee of just £1.99 a month or £19.99 for the year! We do not make you pay any extra or charge for individual packs.
 
If you want to download this resource pack, all you need to do is sign up to the Be Happy Hub.
 
Not a member? Sign up now!
 
 
 

What’s New This Week?

Posted on by Brandon Hudson
See what’s new to the Be Happy Hub!
Each week we upload new resources to help with your child’s wellbeing. This week we bring you a mix of new activities – from Emotion Bingo to worksheets to help your children with difficult emotions such as grief.
 
Summer Scavenger Hunt – Summer has arrived and what better way to enjoy the nice weather than completing a mindful scavenger hunt? Scavenger hunts are a great way to ground children and help them to engage their senses to take in the world around them – plus they’re great fun! However, we do have to issue a disclaimer to say not to complete this scavenger hunt outside during the next week, which may see record temperatures of 30-40 degrees across the UK.
 
Emotion Bingo – We’re always looking for fun ways to bring emotional learning into every day play, this game will help children identify and learn emotions using our popular emotion faces. For 2-4 players.
 
How are you Tweeting? – This fun worksheet helps children to use their imaginations – and there are no wrong answers! Have your child think about what each bird is feeling or saying and write this in the speech bubbles. This is a great activity to get them thinking about facial cues and expressions. Emotional resources for kids should be fun – and this one is a hoot!
 
Remembering my Pet / Loved One – We’ve had a lot of requests for grief resources recently and we know how hard and sensitive this topic can be. Discussing grief with children and teaching children about grief can be extremely upsetting. Our new worksheets aim to help children think about their grief and discuss how they’re feeling. One of the ways we can cope with grief is by writing a letter to the person we miss, we have taken this activity and made it into a child-friendly resource. The Feelings Check In also allows you to see how your child is feeling. This worksheet can be used regularly, as they may fill in the prompts differently each time, this allows you to track how they’re feeling as time goes on.
 
5 Sense Doodle Pads – You know we love anything that engages all our senses. Using our senses during periods of heightened emotions can calm and ground us. When children feel anxious or worried, these doodle sheets can help. What do we mean by grounding? Grounding allows us to reconnect with the earth, this means that we are more present within our bodies and the space around us. This helps to ease feelings of panic or despair. Practising grounding techniques regularly has been shown to have many benefits, such as improved mental health, circulation, reduced stress levels, improved sleep and even decreased levels of pain and inflammation.
 
Healthy Habits – Help children learn some of the techniques to wellbeing by having them cut out the Healthy Habit statements and placing them under the correct headings. After they’ve done this, have them think about which statement they may need to work on – can they make an action plan to improve this area?
 
Monster Affirmations – Perfect for a positive, feel-good start to the day! Simply download, cut out and recite our monster affirmations with your child. There are many ways you can use positive affirmations with your child – whether it’s by saying them out loud together, displaying them in their bedroom or putting them in their lunchboxes!
 
We will also be uploading our new Separation Anxiety Pack – ‘Gaining My Independence’ over the next few days which is for older children age 8-11. This pack will help children understand what it means to be independent and why their independence is important, as well as lots of activities to help them find their own independence. Keep a look out for this launching soon!
 
If you want to download any of the resources above and access any of our mental health activities for kids, you can sign up here.

How to Use our Grief Cards

Posted on by Brandon Hudson
 
We’ve had a lot of requests for grief resources recently, especially for older children and pre-teens. We know that grief is an extremely hard and sensitive topic to discuss, especially if you – the grown up – are grieving too. We have developed our Grief Cards to help you discuss the topic of grief and loss with children in your care. Check out our steps below on how to use our Grief Cards and how to talk to children about grief. We’ll help you explain this process with visual cues and prompts, as well as teach some breathing techniques for those moments when emotions become heightened. This pack consists of four sections:
  • Stage Cards – these cards help to explain the six stages of grief.
  • Prompt Cards – these cards help to facilitate healthy discussion around grief and bring feelings to the surface.
  • Breathing Cards – these cards help to calm and ground.
  • Fact Cards – including our Feelings Card – these cards help to explain and normalise the process and emotions of grief.
You can download our Grief Cards and over 200 wellbeing and mental health resources for children now by signing up to the Be Happy Hub.

What Makes a Happy Life? According to Children in the UK

Posted on by Brandon Hudson
 
Have you ever wondered what the biggest factors are that contribute to a child’s wellbeing? Well, why don’t we see what they have to say… Here, children say what makes them happy in life, according to the 2020 government report ‘Children’s Views on Wellbeing and What Makes a Happy Life.’
  1. Loving and positive relationships
“Love means people who care about you, family and friends, because if you’re upset then they’ll be there for you”.
  1. Feeling safe
“You need somewhere to relax because a lot of the time, people at school, they don’t have a very relaxing time, so whenever they go home it’s still not relaxed.”
  1. Being able to be who they are
“Children are judged for how they do stuff and what they do. Being too loud or too quiet or having a weird small group instead of a huge one with loads of friends.”
  1. Nice teachers
“It’s like really nice to know that there’s teachers like that that you can go and talk to and that they’re not like really shouty all the time.”
  1. Basic needs and comforts
“Having like a nice tea or something after a really hard day.”
  1. Being listened to
“I feel like a lot of adults don’t listen, it’s like our opinion doesn’t matter in a way, it’s sort of like ‘you’re doing this and that’s what you’re doing’.”

Do’s and Don’ts – Raising Children with Healthy Attitudes to Food

Posted on by Brandon Hudson
 
Our lifelong afflictions with food may be firmly cemented during childhood, from the way our grown ups talk to us about food and their own relationships with food, to restricting certain foods and even TV shows. Eating disorders commonly appear in childhood and young adulthood, and the average age of onset is becoming lower and lower, with eating disorders even reported in children age 5 and 6.   Here are some tips to help you raise children with healthy attitudes to food. Remember, you are only human, so don’t beat yourself up should you do any of these without thinking! We can only try our best and learn from our own experiences with food.   Do: Celebrate our differences and teach children that people come in all shapes and sizes. Show them that we are all beautiful and unique.   Do: Be a role model yourself and try to bring your own eating habits under control.   Do: Encourage healthy eating for its health benefits and not for weight loss,   Do: Choose your words – telling your child to take a walk because they are overweight is very different than asking them to take a brisk walk with you.   Do: Provide your child with lots of affirmations about themselves that include their body, brain, personality, and talents.   Do: Encourage an active lifestyle. Although we think of children as being extremely active, the average age that exercise drops off is reportedly around age 7 – keep up those sports clubs and encourage active hobbies!   Do: Monitor what they watch on TV/YouTube and limit exposure to weight loss commercials.   Don’t: Obsess about your’s or your partner’s weight around your children.   Don’t: Obsess about your child’s weight, even if they are overweight.   Don’t: Use the word “fat,” whether it’s in relation to your child or to anyone else.   Don’t: Assume that boys don’t get eating disorders.   Don’t: Vilify any one type of food, including sweets. Using food restriction can cause children to lose their sense of hunger and fullness. They may overeat when those limited foods become available.   Don’t: Dissuade your child from wearing items of clothing.   Don’t: Congratulate your child if they lose weight.   Has the above helped? Or has anything personally resonated with you? Leave a comment below.  

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