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Printable Wellbeing Activities for Children

Printable Wellbeing Resources for Kids

At Rooftop Post, we believe that nurturing a child’s emotional wellbeing and mental health is just as important as feeding their imagination and creativity.  With this in mind, we’ve been creating our first printable resources to help children explore their emotions and practice mindfulness in a positive, fun and engaging way.

Why Focus on Wellbeing?

Two children of different ethnic backgrounds sitting at a table, happily colouring in a Feelings Pie Chart worksheet. They are smiling, sharing crayons, and engaging in the activity in a cosy, nurturing home environment.Well, it’s a fast-paced world, right?  And our children face a constant barrage of challenges that can affect their mental and emotional health.  They could be managing school pressures, navigating friendships both on and offline, or just trying to stay confident and hopeful in difficult circumstances.  Whatever the case, we think it’s more important than ever to give today’s children the tools they need to understand and express their feelings.

Interestingly, recent studies show that even simple activities like colouring or journaling can have a really positive impact on emotional regulation and stress relief.  Colouring can enhance mindfulness – the ability to be present in the moment.  Meanwhile, journaling is a great way to process emotions, especially as children grow.  And beyond that, we all know how important it is to take time out to do activities that are pressure-free and enjoyable.  So let’s encourage our little ones – and everyone else – to engage in them.

What’s Available?

So far, we’ve got the following resources ready for you, but we’re busy working on more, so be sure to pop back in a few weeks’ time to discover something new.

Positive Thoughts Colouring Pages:

Featuring uplifting messages like “Gratitude,” “Kindness,” and “Hope,” these pages are designed to encourage children to focus on positive emotions while relaxing through colouring.

 

Feelings Pie Chart Worksheet:

This is a creative way for children to identify and reflect on the emotions they’re experiencing.  The idea is that by colouring in slices of the pie, kids can better understand their feelings and communicate them with trusted adults.  This can be a springboard for talking more about feelings, or just a way of expressing them non-verbally.

Children’s feelings pie chart worksheet with different emotions such as happy, sad, excited, and worried. Kids can colour in the sections that match how they feel.
This fun and simple feelings pie chart helps children express their emotions by colouring in the slices that match how they feel. A great tool for parents to start conversations about feelings.

 

Wellbeing Activity Cards:

Quick, simple prompts that promote mindfulness and self-care. From breathing exercises to “acts of kindness” challenges, these cards are perfect for home or classroom use.

A set of printable stress-busting activity cards for children, featuring simple mindfulness and relaxation exercises such as deep breathing, tracing shapes, guided imagery, and grounding with senses.
Printable activity cards to help children manage stress – a great tool for relaxation and self-regulation.

Printable Wellbeing and Stress-Busting Activity Cards for Children (PDF Download)

How Can These Resources Help?

Each printable has been carefully designed to encourage open conversations about emotions and mental health in an age-appropriate way. They provide a gentle introduction to concepts like gratitude, self-awareness, and emotional resilience, helping children build skills that will benefit them throughout their lives.

Whether you’re a parent, teacher, or caregiver, these resources can support you in fostering a safe and supportive environment where children feel heard, valued, and understood.

Top Picks for January

With Christmas over and the new year at the starting block, we thought we’d list a few of our favourite printables for January. Some are new and some are old favourites but our site is getting so big that we thought a little list might help make sure there’s no mid-winter magic you’ve missed.

1 Christmas Thank You Notes

Christmas Thank You Notes

2 Burns’ Night Printables

3  Tooth Fairy Notes

4 Blank Fairy Notepaper

Blank Fairy Notepaper

5 Spring Colouring

Printable spring colouring pages

10 Summer Favourites

With the summer underway, (at least in the northern hemisphere – apologies to those elsewhere!), we thought we’d post a short list of our most popular summer printables.  We hope you find them useful:

1 Summer Party Bags

Summer Party Bags
Summer Party Bags

2 Summer Tooth Fairy Note and Certificates

3 Summer Traveller Pirate Certificate

Free printable pirate certificate - summer traveller
Summer Traveller Pirate Certificate
(Ready to personalise)

4 Summer Garland and Bunting

Printable Fruit Garland

5 Summer Colouring Pages

6 Summer Party Invitations

7 Sporty Summer Certificates

 

 

8 Remember to Pack Your Toothbrush! (Tooth Fairy Note)

Printable note from the Tooth Fairy reminding a child to pack a toothbrush
Remember to Pack Your Toothbrush

9 Summer Paper Baskets and Cones

10 Useful Thank You Notes for Summer

 

BEST FROM THE WEB:

For anyone looking for more lovely summery resources, here are a few of our favourites from around the internet:

Printable Masks – This site has a great collection of masks to keep the kids entertained this summer, or indeed at any other time of year.

Hidden Pictures – This selection of charming pictures with things hidden all over them is great for keeping children busy over the summer.  Like hide-and-seek on the page!  They can also be coloured in for extra fun.

Best of Our Summer Colouring

Ah summer… and colouring.  Two of our favourite things rolled into one!

Our colouring is aimed at children rather than adults, although grown-ups are welcome to it too, of course.  After all, studies have shown that simply colouring in a picture  is good for your mental health – a relaxing pastime no matter what age you are.

Anyway, we’ve put all our summer colouring faves together below so they’re easy to scroll through,  starting with a pirate and a pirate cat:

Or how about some lovely, simple-to-colour summery unicorns?

And here’s the rest:

 

Spring Colouring

Here are our favourite spring- themed colouring printables in one gallery. Enjoy!

Covid Printables

It’s miserable being in the middle of a pandemic, but we’ve put together these printables which you might find useful while the world tries to cope with the coronavirus crisis.  They’re meant to be light-hearted and to stop children feeling too anxious.

If you want to create your own Tooth Fairy certificate, you can find our blank templates here.

Has your child been feeling anxious about the pandemic?  An award for bravery might help.  It won’t take fear away of course, but it could help your little one feel proud of the way he or she is coping.  A little bit of praise and acknowledgement is something we all need from time to time.

Covid Christmas Letters

Finally, if you want to print a magical Father Christmas letter to say well done for coping so well with Covid restrictions, you can find one here.

Rainbow Posters

Are you looking to show your support for the NHS or other key workers?  Great!  It’s lovely to see rainbows popping up in windows all over the UK, appreciating just how precious all our health workers are.  Here’s our little contribution – a collection of rainbow posters for children to print and colour in:

By the way, we think it’s really nice of you to think of others during this difficult time.  Your kindness is far more magical than anything we do on this site.

If you have a key worker among your friends or family, why not colour in a poster just for them? We’ve tried to include as many as we could think of, and there’s one you can fill in yourself if we’ve missed someone.

Looking for plain rainbow colouring without any writing? These are two of our favourites?

And here are two final posters which are key to that all-important message to stay home if you can:

Colouring for Spring

This is just a quick post to gather together all our favourite colouring pages for spring.  Great for those rainy afternoons with the children, though fingers crossed you won’t get too many!

Feeling musical this spring?  You might like these:

 

Along with colouring pages, you might also enjoy the following printables which are popular in spring:

Mermaid Certificates

Learning to Swim - free mermaid certificate
Learning to Swim

Our mermaid certificates are always popular in spring – though we’re never quite sure why!  Possibly it’s a time when children learn to swim.  Anyway, they’re also fun for children’s parties, oh, and we’ve got a mermaid invitations and a mermaid treasure hunt you can print too.

Pastel Alphabet Bunting

Perhaps it’s the soft spring colours that make our printable pastel alphabet bunting a popular download at this time of year.

Tooth Fairy Notes

Notes from the Tooth Fairy

These little notes from the Tooth fairy never stop being popular, no matter what the time of year. At the moment, they are among our top five most visited pages.

New Colouring Pages

Hello!  As you’ll know if you’re a regular visitor to this site, we add new printable colouring pages whenever we can.  Here are our latest offerings, many of which have been created with the upcoming season of autumn in mind.  We hope you find them useful and that if your children are heading back to school this September, they have a great term.

Latest Colouring Pages

We’re always adding extra colouring in pages here and there throughout our site, so we try to keep this post updated with the latest ones, all in one place:

Here are some more you might have missed:

More coming soon!