Coping Skills Activity

A cartoon image of three children playing

Pick a coping strategy that you will try this week:

  • Take deep breaths (in through your nose, out through your mouth)
  • Think of something funny that happened
  • Take a quick walk (even around your house)
  • Stretch
  • Listen to music
  • Say something kind to yourself
  • Talk to an adult
  • Visualize your favorite place to go
  • Think of something that makes you happy
  • Draw a picture
  • Choose one of your own

Your task for the week is to keep track of:

  • Which strategy you used
  • What was happening when you used the strategy
  • How you felt afterward