The Huge Bag of Worries

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Now ask the children to start composing the message and think about how they would like to send this – there are lots of different choices. They could design a card, record a message, draw a picture, record themselves singing a song at home or even play a piece of music. This would be a good opportunity to involve the whole family – record the message and send it to the chosen recipient. Beyond the UNCRC, the Welsh Government has implemented “Together for Mental Health,” a Cross-Government Strategy setting out goals for improving mental health and mental health services in Wales. This Strategy covers all ages; children and young people, adults of working age and older people. Article 12, which states that parties shall assure to the child who is capable of forming his or her own views the right to express those views freely in all matters affecting the child; My favourite part of the book is when Jenny figures out how to deal with her bag of worries, the end of the story gives lot of brilliant ideas about how we can all treat our worries.

We are passionate about taking the curriculum outdoors. That’s why we have created the first ever whole school training, Taking the Curriculum Outdoors: A Whole School Approach. You can also help your children to relieve anxiety and stress with this Homemade Stress Ball activity.Helping children to understand their emotions and worries can promote positive mental health. It also means that children can relate to others better, contributing to social skills. Throughout The Huge Bag of Worries, Jenny experiences many issues that can affect mental health. Although everything in Jenny’s life appears positive at the start of the story, her bag of worries grows bigger and bigger until the weight, the burden of her worries becomes too much to bear and she breaks down.

This worry bag activity is a great one to use with your class to help them think about and discuss their emotions. It can be used as a morning starter activity to set them up for their day, or even as a standalone lesson alongside this Emotions PowerPoint. Schools: Schools play an important role in your life. There are school-based counsellors to help you with issues like bullying and depression. Invite the children to think about who their trusted adults are and who they can talk to if they have a worry – they may want to make a card for their special person or send them a picture of them with their worry monster. if the children are happy to share the worries from the bag let them do so and discuss the strategies they could use to deal with the worry. This can be done in role play with advice from the other elves/fairies.Article 13, which states that all children have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to speak, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of the child’s choice; Make a worry monster with a big mouth so that it can eat up worries – the children might want to use junk modelling or even paper mache (recipe - https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/how-make-paper-mache) What will it look like? What is its name? Using the discussions about the colours of the rainbows – look at the artist Kandinsky and invite the children to create their own Kandinsky styled pictures – https://www.projeccom/kandinsky-art-for-kids-chalk-pastels/ or https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=kandinsky+for+kids&qpvt=kandinsky+for+kids&FORM=IGRE