Item 083 – Traffic light tool kit for emotional regulation

This traffic light tool kit is ideal for working one to one with a child. The red light is the difficult emotion such as anger, frustration, fear, worry, sad and upset. The green light is the comfortable emotion such as happy, chilled, content, ok, calm, and proud.

The amber/yellow light shows all the things the child can do to help get from the red light to the green light. These are the tools.

Make sure you go through the resource with the child and decide which ‘tools’ they need to use or try.

Print and laminate this resource, Cut out the cards and keep in a little zip folder, Use either velcro or blu tak to stick the cards onto the base board.

If you need the cards to be bigger just print all of it onto A3 paper and laminate.

The pack contains:

• A base board
• 6 difficult emotion faces with suggested word – angry, sad, upset, worried, frustrated, scared
• 6 comfortable emotion faces with suggested word – calm, chilled, content, happy, proud, ok
• 24 coping strategy cards