WORRY MONSTER LESSON & CRAFT – Anxiety Worries School Counseling Activities

Are you looking for an engaging, therapeutic way to help children understand and manage their worries? Our “Worry Monsters” Lesson and Craft is designed to make learning about anxiety, stress, and coping skills both fun and effective. This comprehensive lesson and craft include interactive activities, discussion prompts, and creative worksheets to support children in externalizing their worries through a friendly, personalized worry monster.

What’s Inside our “Worry Monsters” Lesson and Craft Resource:

• Worry Monster Tip Sheet – A guide for children explaining how to use their worry monster to manage feelings of stress and anxiety.
• Encouraging Letter for Children – A supportive, trauma-informed letter to inspire children as they create their own worry monster.
• Counselor Notes – Professional guidance for counselors and educators on using the resource effectively in therapeutic or classroom settings.
• Worksheets on Stress and Anxiety – Activities exploring what worry and anxiety feel like, helping children identify their personal stressors.
• Physical Symptoms of Anxiety Worksheet – A simple tool to help kids recognize how anxiety shows up in their bodies.
• Getting to Know Your Worry Monster Worksheets – Prompts for children to personalize their monster, giving it a name and purpose, fostering a safe space for externalizing worries.
• Discussion and Reflection Cards – Thought-provoking prompts for one-on-one or group conversations, helping children reflect on their feelings and experiences with anxiety.
• Create-Your-Own Worry Monster Parts – Fun, customizable worry monster parts (black-and-white and color versions) including body parts, eyes, hands, mouths, horns, and wings, allowing children to design a monster that represents their worries in a tangible way.
• Frequently Asked Questions – Kid-friendly FAQs to answer common questions about anxiety and worries, helping to normalize these feelings.
• Worry Monster Play Dough Mats – Laminate the worry monster play dough mats and encourage students to use dough to create their worry monster.
• Worry Monster Handprints Crafts – For a hands-on worry monster, use paint to create your own worry monster.

Our “Worry Monsters” Lesson and Craft is a fantastic resource for counselors, therapists, teachers, and parents who want to support children’s mental health. It provides children with tools to understand and manage their anxiety while making it safe, creative, and enjoyable. Perfect for therapeutic settings, classrooms, or at home, this resource helps children take their first steps toward building emotional resilience with a little help from their worry monster!

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