Get rid of your worries
We all have worries. Sometimes they feel like a little niggle you can’t quite put your finger on, and other times they can feel big and overwhelming.
Worries often get in the way of being here in the moment and noticing the good things around us.
Creativity is a great way to notice your worries, move through them and transform them into something new.
Worry treasure hunt
Sometimes it can be hard to put a feeling into words. Objects can help us describe a feeling that sometimes words can’t.
We held a worry treasure hunt to search for objects that represented what a worry feels like to us.
We found that worries can feel like…
A tangled ball of wool
A heavy book
Bubble wrap
Nail stop varnish
Have your own worry teasure hunt!
Set a timer for 3 mins.
Look around the room that you are in and find an object that describes what a worry feels like to you.
Take a photo and share it with us here. We’d love to hear from you!
Have your own worry teasure hunt!
Set a timer for 3 mins.
Look around the room that you are in and find an object that describes what a worry feels like to you.
Take a photo and share it with us here. We’d love to hear from you!
Transform your worries
You will need:
- A pen
- Some papers
- A pritt stick
- Old fabric
- Wool/threads
Part 1
Find a piece of paper or fabric.
Give yourself 5 minutes to write down/draw/make marks about anything you are worried about at this moment.
Part 2
Find a way to transform the worries you’ve written down.
You could rip them up, or shred them and transform them into a collage. Or if you wrote them on fabric you could wrap them up tightly and bind them into a cocoon… what other ways can you think of to get creative with your worries?
Other self-kindness activities
Here’s a few other activities you can try out to build up your self-kindness. Download the PDFs, and print them off at home if you’d like!
Self-kindness talk
What do you need?
Treasure hunt
Sometimes our worries can be just a little too big for us to deal with on our own. If yours feel like that today there's lots of people who could support you - get support here.
In the classroom
Have a worries session. You could ask your class to bring in an object from home that represents worries for them, or run the ‘transform your worries’ activity in class!