Meditation in a Bottle
Create a personalized bottle filled with slow-moving glitter – and a heavy dose of calm.
Emotional Wellness
Learn healthy ways to understand and express your emotions.
About the Activities
Have you ever noticed that when you feel great you do great things? That’s no coincidence! Having positive ways to manage emotions can benefit a person’s physical and mental health, which could help them to accomplish goals.
This collection explores ways that emotions play an important role in each individual’s health and success. The activities will help teens gain an understanding of different ways to express feelings, the importance of resilience, and ways to use our positive thoughts to accomplish goals.
The Emotional Wellness collection was made possible by generous support from The Allstate Foundation and Ohio State University Extension.
Grades: 6-12
Topic: Mindfulness, Healthy Living, Creative Arts, and College Readiness
Estimated Time: 30 - 60 minutes
Expressing Emotions
About the Activity
Every person has a lot of different emotions throughout each day, which can make expressing them more challenging. In this activity, teens will learn different ways to uncover and share their emotions.
Grades: 6-12
Topic: Mindfulness, Healthy Living, Creative Arts, and College Readiness
Estimated Time: 30 - 45 minutes
Bouncing Back
About the Activity
We can’t always control what happens in life, but through resilience we can control how we bounce back. In this activity, teens will conduct an experiment to illustrate the power of resilience.
Grades: 6-12
Topic: Mindfulness, Healthy Living, Creative Arts, and College Readiness
Estimated Time: 30 - 45 minutes
Make Your Own Visions Board
About the Activity
Visualize and plan your goals with a vision board! This activity will walk you through ways to develop goals, how to visualize them, and most importantly, how to measure their success.
Grades: 6-12
Topic: Mindfulness, Healthy Living, Creative Arts, and College Readiness
Estimated Time: 60 minutes
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