My Magical Calming Potion Activity – Explore What Helps Children Feel Calm and Comfortable

My Magical Calming Potion Activity - Explore What Helps Children Feel Calm and Comfortable

Cut, stick and create a magical recipe for calm with this fun October wellbeing activity!

About This Resource

My Magical Calming Potion is a fun cut-and-stick wellbeing activity designed to introduce children to a variety of simple ways they can help themselves feel calmer.

Children are given a large blank potion bottle and a colourful collection of magical potion ingredients. They choose the ingredients they think would work best for them, cut them out and stick them onto their bottle before giving their finished potion its very own name.

The activity includes ingredients such as Slow Deep Breaths, Fresh Air, Moving My Body, Listening to Music, A Quiet Place, Talking to Someone I Trust, Thinking Kind Thoughts, Snuggly Hugs, Happy Memories, Doing Something Creative and more.

Children can also write or draw their own magical ingredients, allowing them to personalise their potion with strategies that work particularly well for them.

What’s Included?

The downloadable activity includes:

• Large My Magical Calming Potion bottle
• Space for children to name their potion
• 16 colourful magical ingredient bottles
• Cut-out guides
• Activity instructions
• Opportunity for children to add their own ideas

Features

• Fun October-inspired potion theme
• Interactive cut-and-stick activity
• Colourful ready-made potion ingredients
• Explores a variety of calming strategies
• Encourages children to make their own choices
• Combines creativity with emotional wellbeing
• Finished potion can be kept as a visual reminder
• Suitable for primary-aged children

Benefits

Rather than asking children to simply list things that help them feel calm, My Magical Calming Potion gives them a range of practical strategies to explore and choose from.

This can help children recognise that there are lots of different ways to regulate and find calm, and that different strategies may work for different people or at different times.

By choosing their own ingredients, children begin to create a personalised collection of calming tools they can remember and return to when they need them.

How to Use

Invite children to look through all the magical ingredients and think about which ones they would like in their own calming potion.

They can cut out their chosen potion bottles and stick them onto the large potion bottle before adding or drawing any ideas of their own. Finally, children can use the space provided to come up with a fun name for their finished creation.

Use as a standalone emotional regulation activity, during ELSA or therapy sessions, as part of a wellbeing lesson, for calm-corner work or as a fun seasonal activity throughout October.

Pair with Our October Meditation

My Magical Calming Potion has been designed to accompany our October meditation, The Magical Potion Shop.

Children can first visit the imaginary potion shop during the guided meditation, where they discover magical ingredients and create a calming potion in their imagination. Afterwards, they can bring their potion to life using the accompanying activity.

The activity also works brilliantly as a standalone resource!