Resilience refers to how we accept change, adapt, and pivot when needed. This often requires us to get creative, so why not have fun practicing resilience with creative activities?
Let’s Start With Puzzles!
This week, we talked about puzzles and their benefits for National Puzzle Day. Teaching resilience is definitely a benefit of puzzles. As kids try wrong piece after wrong piece, they learn that to find the right one, they just have to keep trying. So break out your favorite puzzles or try this puzzle activity at home for a fun way to start building resilience with kids right now.
Art Always Helps!
When children face a situation that requires resilience, encourage them to create an art piece about what they went through. They could draw, paint, or even create playdough sculptures to represent different emotions they felt. Then have them recount the actions they took to practice resilience throughout the situation.
Play Games!
From board games to icebreakers, playing alongside others provides the perfect chance to build resilience. Games present challenges along a path to a final destination. Whether you win or lose, you are meant to see it through. And this often requires strategy, creativity, and adaptation.
And Finally Our Favorite Way to Learn—In the Kitchen!
Sticking with a recipe that doesn’t go according to plan requires great resilience. To create such a challenge for kids, try making a recipe that you don’t have all the ingredients for. Work together to decide how the recipe can be adjusted What alternative ingredients could be used? Get creative and help kids learn that they can still accomplish a goal even when things don’t go exactly as planned.
Resilience is a useful skill that helps us say, “Well, that didn’t work. Let me try something else.” Helping kids master this will take them far!
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