This activity helps students to develop self talk for dealing with their worries and recognize times and places that tend to bring out the worry monster. From here, we practice talking to their worry monsters and paying attention to time when he or she might come out. This activity really helps students to recognize worry triggers and employ that self talk that helps them to combat their worries! For an even better way to find KS1 resources, discover tailored suggestions, and much more - visit the KS1 resource HUB! GO TO KS1 HUB This Worry Monster Worksheet is an excellent resource to have in your primary school classes to help children control their worries by writing them down.

For all of us, dealing with worry required lots of repeated thinking about key issues. 8. Homemade Stress Ball Monsters Some pieces of dried food can be a good one, as the children associate them with eating. Something like dried pasta, for example. Imagine there is something that you are worried about. It might be something that makes you sad, or that you are scared of. By understanding a child's worries, you can then do more to help them manage their worries and concerns.

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Some kids may find it difficult to use visualization techniques and will benefit from using an actual box. It can be difficult to talk about how anxious we feel, particularly for young children who might not recognise this feeling yet or have the words to describe it. Creating a character or a creature, like the ‘Worry Monster’, can be used to resemble your child’s anxiety and is a great way of developing a shared and age-appropriate language for discussing anxiety. You might want to support your child to visualise the character by drawing it out – it might be a certain colour, with particular features and for some, they might want to add speech bubbles which represent the specific worries they are experiencing.

You may well have heard of worry monsters – but have you heard about the many ways you can use them? Passing round a designated box or basket as a circle time, and placing an object into it, whilst linking it to a worry, will work in just the same way as the monster. In this particular small group activity, students each create their own unique worry monsters, choosing from different bodies, eyes, mouths, arms, and even legs. Some students make worry monsters that look quite scary while others make worry monsters that appear friendly, and that’s okay.It can be helpful to team up with your child against the worry monster and come up with ways of responding to it. The phrases below might help make the worry monster appear smaller and less powerful: To start, I ask students to imagine what their worry would look like if it were a real-life monster. We talk about how imagining what the worry looks like is a starting point for talking to the worry. This might sound silly to some students, but I explain that when we can talk to our worries, we can tell them they’re wrong or that we want them to leave! I teach students to say, “I don’t have to listen to you, Worry Wilbert (or whatever name they’ve chosen),” or “You’re not welcome here, Worry Wilma.” A great book to review this process is Worry Says What? by Allison Edwards. Constructing the Worry Monster It’s a good idea to use the worry monster pretty soon after the hunt for added motivation and engagement. 5. Make A Worry Monster It could be quite simple differently colored pebbles. Or they could have simple writing patterns on them, maybe things like swirls or zig-zags.