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
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