Wellbeing activities: managing stress

Use activities for young people and children to explore the resources they have to manage and understand stress.

Age:: 7-18
Subjects:: PSHE
Topics:: kindness, home learning resources
Type:: Activities

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Learning how to manage wellbeing can help us cope with change and challenges. To be able to manage wellbeing we need to understand how things affect people and what we have around us that can help.

These activities help children and young people to learn how to use their resources to help manage stress can help improve wellbeing and help others in different situations. Activities are linked to two new animated videos.

Learning objectives

build resilience, kindness and empathy
learn how to manage stress
reflect on what we have around us that can help
think about our wellbeing and what we can do to improve it

Resource overview

There are different activities for primary and secondary learners and two different document downloads – managing stress and using what we have around us as well as two stress fact sheets, one for primary learners and one for secondary.

1. What is stress and relaxing the body

Explore what stress is and how it changes our body and feelings. Learn a way to relax your body and help manage stress. Young people can look at the stress fact sheets for key information about stress.

2. Stress patterns: video activity

Use the activity in the animated video to explore what causes stress, how it affects your body and reflect on things we can do to manage stress and feel better.

Stress can be a reaction to change. It's something we feel in our body. In our thoughts and emotions. Different people might feel stress in different ways. Its important to understand stress and how it affects us, so we can manage it well. Here's an activity to help you with this. #MentalHealth #YouthEducation

3. Resource hunt

Look around your house for resources and reflect on what resources are and how they help us.

4. What I do have: video activity

Use the video and its activity to reflect on our resources and what resources we need in different situations. Think about how we can use our resources to help others.

Often there are things or people around us, that can help when we're facing a challenge. We can call these things resources - things, people or ideas, that might be helpful to us. Here's an activity to help identify your helpful resources. #MentalHealth #YouthEducation

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Credits

This resource was developed by the British Red Cross in July 2020.

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