Christmas Jumper - My Jolly Jumper - Decorate Your Own Happiness Jumper

A joyful, creative Christmas activity that helps children explore and celebrate what makes them feel happy inside.

My Jolly Jumper is a warm, cheerful Christmas activity designed to help children connect with their personal sources of happiness. During the festive season - when excitement, pressure, and sensory overload can run high - this simple colouring and decorating activity offers a grounding space for children to pause, think, and focus on what feels good, comforting, and joyful.

Perfect for classrooms, home settings, counselling sessions, and wellbeing workshops, this resource transforms a classic Christmas jumper colouring sheet into a gentle emotional-wellbeing tool. Children fill the jumper with doodles, colours, drawings, symbols, or words representing the things that make the season feel special to them. In doing so, they practise gratitude, emotional awareness, mindfulness, and creative expression in a way that feels natural, relaxed, and fun.

About This Resource

My Jolly Jumper is thoughtfully designed as a low-demand, high-comfort wellbeing activity. It offers children an accessible opportunity to tune into what makes them happy - whether it’s festive lights, cosy routines, beloved people, comforting foods, or simply the feeling of rest and warmth that the holiday season brings. Because it has no right or wrong answers, children have full freedom to express themselves in any way that feels authentic to them.

This resource encourages children to recognise their own emotional needs and preferences - skills that are crucial for developing resilience, self-awareness, and self-soothing. When children pause to notice what makes them feel happy, they learn to understand their emotional landscape and identify practical ways to support their wellbeing.

Features

• A beautifully simple Christmas jumper outline children can decorate

• Clear, mindful prompt encouraging reflection on happiness

• Suitable for all ages, from young children to teens

• Can be used with pencils, pens, paints, collage materials, or digital tools

• Works as both a standalone activity and part of a festive wellbeing pack

• Ideal for quiet moments, transitions, morning work, or emotional check-ins

• Accessible for neurodivergent learners and children who prefer creative expression over writing

• Printer-friendly A4 format

Benefits

• Encourages emotional awareness: Children learn to recognise what genuinely brings them joy.

• Supports mindfulness: Decorating the jumper slowly and intentionally creates a calming sensory experience.

• Builds confidence: Children express themselves in a way that feels safe and personal.

• Strengthens gratitude: Focussing on positives can lift mood and promote optimism.

• Provides a soothing creative outlet: The repetitive movement of colouring supports emotional regulation.

• Promotes communication: Finished jumpers can be used as discussion starters with teachers, parents, or therapists.

• Flexible and inclusive: Works well for diverse abilities, energy levels, and emotional states.

• Perfect for overwhelmed or anxious children: A quiet, comforting task during a busy season.

How to Use

1. Introduce the activity gently: Invite children to decorate their jumper with whatever brings them happiness at Christmas - objects, colours, foods, people, memories, sounds, smells, or traditions.

2. Encourage slow, mindful colouring: Children can take their time, noticing how the colours move, how the pencil feels, and how their body relaxes as they decorate.

3. Allow freedom of interpretation: Some children will draw pictures; others may fill the jumper with patterns, doodles, or abstract shapes. Everything is valid.

4. Optional sharing circle: Children who wish to can show their jumper and talk about something they included that brings them joy.

5. Display or send home: These jumpers make a beautiful wellbeing-focused festive display or a thoughtful keepsake for families.

By focusing on what makes them happy, children create a jumper filled with warmth, comfort, and joy, helping them connect with positive feelings during a busy and often overwhelming season.