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Whatever your circumstance, it is inevitable that both you and your children will go through periods when you feel unsettled, worried or even mithered. Our children not only can hear everything that is going on around them, but they feel our tension and anxiety. 

What children need is to feel comforted and loved. To feel like it’s all going to be ok.  The most important thing is that you let them know how loved they are.  If you can, play outside or go on a walk.  Bake cookies and paint pictures.  Play board games and watch movies.  Start a book and read together as a family. To help, below you will find lots of great ideas from a wide range of experts that hopefully you will enjoy as much as we have when we have tried them!

 

Finally, please remember if you have any concerns about not just your child's mental health but anyone you know, please feel free to  contact Mrs Riley on ariley@theatlasfederation.co.uk or contact their class teacher. 

 

There is not anything we can do do together!!

 

The Team at Moorcroft Wood

 

 

 

Fun Activities Indoors and Outdoors

 

 

 

 

 

Baking cakes     Cooking together   Create a scrapbook    Treasure hunt       Flip book animation  Create your own story   Make a fairy doorway    Stage a family play       Create a den       Chalk art in the garden        Plant sunflowers  Plant tomatoes 

 

Parent and child pampering sessions         Family choir        Make a bird feeder Create a time capsule    Find a pen pal    Our homes’ got talent      Create a nature collage   Finger painting      Design your own board game    Family sports day

 

Macaroni crafts    Junk modelling   Baking soda volcano      Messy play        Noughts and crosses       Play pirates  Family bake off     Family quiz       Positive affirmations artwork  Decorate a room      

 

Design your own birthday card  Nerf gun garden battle  Hangman  Write a song/poem       Play the sun always shines on me Play hide and seek   Create your own bead necklace   Tie and dye art    Cartwheels  Set a skipping record  Create a memory box  Hop! 

 

Play snap  Help in the garden        Put on finger puppet show   Dance performance     Smile!    Make a paper fortune teller (chatterbox)  Family movie and popcorn night    Help wash dishes  Design a car   Re-lace trainers in a new style        Create home art rubbings       Water fight

 

 Paint garden stones  Decorate plant pots    Make a dreamcatcher     Help with washing dishes     Decorate a hairband  Family picnic in garden Make your own obstacle course   Create origami bunnies   Hopscotch   Easter bonnet Chalk garden games       Become a news broadcaster Laugh!

 

Garden gymnastics Penalty shootout competition   Fancy dress day Create a bug hotel    Jump about  Pyjama day  Digital detox day Paper aeroplane competition       Musical statues       Bake your own cookies  Make your own gloop  Learn sign language  Learn Makaton  

 

Paint a parent’s nails    Make a family member breakfast in bed   Adopt an animal (charity)              Plait your hair in a new style each day  Make indoor restaurant for your family       Paper mache balloon     Tidy your room    Have a tea party    Make yogurt pot telephones    

 

Websites

Useful fun, websites with highly visual games  for using with your children to learn and consolidate early skills. 
https://www.ictgames.com/

https://www.starfall.com/h/

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/

http://toytheater.com/

 

Click on the folders to find information,activities and sites to support you and your child (this will take you to pages on our Partner school's website at St James):

 

 

 

Managing a Meltdown

Every child at one point or another will struggling either with a new routine or changes in the world as they see it. Resources in the social, emotional star will help. However it is likely that the stresses your child feel, will impact on their behaviour.

 

You know your child better than anyone but here are some useful coping strategies which may help

  • Stay calm and don't shout

  • if your child has triggers which have caused the meltdown remove them

  • remove other children and things from the situation - reduce stimulations

  • talk in a calm soothing voice

  • give clear short instructions

  • remove anything that can cause them harm

  • don't tell them off

  • Stay close and watch them without over crowding them

  • Use breathing exercises https://theinspiredtreehouse.com/calming-breathing-techniques-kids/

  • When they are calming down give them a cuddle - big squeezes help to calm

  • when they have calmed down - let them relax, give them a drink or snack, chewing will help to calm them further

  • retreat to a quiet space

  • when they are ready talk to them about what happened so that you can avoid it again in the future

Remember a meltdown is not bad behaviour, it is when your child is so overwhelmed and overloaded that they cannot communicate this - they have lost their words. They are having a fight or flight response and they have lost control, they really need you not to


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