Calming Basket – What to put in it

Calming Basket – What to put in it:

What can you put into a Calming basket? A calming basket has lots of things to help a pupil calm down and is a great strategy to help emotional regulation.

Some ideas recently discussed in the ELSA GROUP:

• Exercise books/paper with some coloured pencils for them to doodle with.
• Bubble wrap for popping
• Squidgy balls which you squish and squeeze
• Feathers for mindful breathing practice
• Pebbles or stones
• Stretchy people
• Crayons and paper for ‘anger scribbling’
• Shells
• Bubbles
• Cuddly toy
• Mindful colouring sheets
• Paper clips for making paperclip chains
• Jigsaw puzzles
• Paper for ripping
• things to count
• Whiteboards and pens
• Small bag of lego bricks
• Playdough
• Dot to dot
• Puzzles
• Glitter bottle timer
• Calm down strategy cards
• Weighted cushion or blanket
• Ear muffs or headphones for either blanking out sound or playing calming music
• Kaleidoscope
• Pinwheels
• Rubik’s cube
• Pipe cleaners to make things with
• Small fluffy blanket
• Zentangle
• Mandalas
• Emotion puzzles