Colour Your Crew – A Community Support Activity for Mental Health Awareness Week 2025 and All Year Round.

About This Resource

Colour Your Crew invites children to reflect on the people in their life who support and uplift them. Featuring five stick figures ready to be coloured in and decorated, this FREE Mental Health Awareness worksheet for children helps them identify and appreciate the relationships that help them feel safe and valued.

Benefits of This Resource

• Encourages emotional safety by identifying trusted individuals.
• Builds gratitude and emotional literacy.
• Helps children visualise their social support network.
• Promotes discussion about empathy and trust.
• Offers a personalised activity that supports a child’s sense of identity and belonging.
• Ideal for group sharing or 1:1 reflection time.

How to Use

Encourage your children to colour each figure to represent a member of their support crew, then write their name and a little bit about why they’re special next to it. This can lead to meaningful conversations about trust, support and connection. In a school setting, this could form part of a class display showcasing everyone’s unique crew.

Why Mental Health Awareness Week Matters

Mental Health Awareness Week is an important time to raise awareness, reduce stigma, and encourage open conversations about emotional wellbeing. For children, it offers an opportunity to learn how to name and manage their feelings, develop empathy for others, and recognise when to ask for help. This annual event is a chance for schools, homes, and communities to come together in support of emotional health and show that mental wellbeing is just as important as physical health. Engaging in activities during this week also helps children understand that they’re not alone, and that mental health is something we all share and can support together.

About This Year’s Theme – Power in Community

The 2025 theme for Mental Health Awareness Week is "Community", a celebration of the people, relationships, and connections that help us feel supported, safe and understood. For children, community can mean family, friends, classmates, teachers, neighbours, and even pets. Being part of a strong, caring community helps boost mental health by offering emotional support, reducing feelings of isolation and increasing confidence and resilience.

When we feel connected, we’re more likely to thrive. This year’s theme invites us to help children recognise the power in community - from acts of kindness and teamwork, to identifying who supports them and how they can support others in return. Our range of Mental Health Awareness resources for schools, professionals and more have been created to reflect that message in fun, accessible ways.

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