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A little help, right when you need it.
Thoughtful resources for raising, teaching, and supporting little humans.
Sometimes you don't need another book, course, or complicated plan.
You just need one helpful thing you can print, try, talk about, or use with a child today.
That's what this little corner of the site is for.
These resources are created to make big feelings, important conversations, classroom moments, and everyday learning a little easier to navigate—one simple tool at a time.
Start with what helps. Take what you need. It's free.
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NOT SURE WHERE TO BEGIN?
Start here.
A few simple resources can go a long way.
You don't need to download everything.
Choose one resource that fits the child, conversation, classroom, or moment in front of you. Try it. Talk about it. Make it your own.
This little collection will change as new resources are added, so you can always come back and see what's new.
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Pick the closest fit. That's enough.
AT HOME
Start with what's happening in your family right now.
IN THE CLASSROOM
Choose something that supports the children in front of you today.
WITH A BIG FEELING
Begin with connection, then choose one simple tool to practice together.
FEELINGS & EMOTIONS
Coloring pages, feeling words, body clues, reflection activities, and simple ways to help children understand what's happening inside them.
PRINT. TALK. PLAY. LEARN.
Free Printables
Simple tools made for real kids, real grown-ups, and real-life moments.
Sometimes a piece of paper gives us somewhere to begin.
These printables are designed to help children explore feelings, start conversations, practice important skills, and understand ideas that can be hard to explain with words alone.
Print what helps. Skip what doesn't. Use it once, use it again, or make it completely your own.
FRIENDSHIP & CONNECTION
Activities for kindness, empathy, communication, repair, belonging, and learning how to stay connected when something goes wrong.
CALMING & COPING
Visual tools and simple activities for breathing, movement, taking a pause, asking for support, and discovering what helps.
COLORING & CREATIVE ACTIVITIES
Low-pressure pages that give children room to color, draw, imagine, create, and express themselves.
CONVERSATION STARTERS
Gentle prompts that give children and grown-ups an easier way to begin talking about feelings, friendships, family, worries, changes, and everyday life.
THE PRINTABLE IS JUST THE BEGINNING.
The conversation around it is where the magic happens.
Sit beside them. Ask what they notice. Let them color outside the lines. Listen to the story they tell you.
A printable doesn't have to be completed perfectly to be useful.
1 — CHOOSE
Pick something that fits the moment you're in.
2 — EXPLORE
Look at it together without worrying about getting it 'right.'
3 — TALK
Follow the child's questions, observations, and ideas.
4 — COME BACK
Skills grow through repetition. It's okay to use something again.
No perfect pencils required.
Just a little curiosity, connection, and room to learn together.
1 — NOTICE THE BODY
Help children notice physical clues like a fast heartbeat, tight tummy, tears, wiggly hands, or wanting to hide.
Big Feelings & SEL
Little tools for understanding what's happening inside.
Children aren't born knowing what a tight tummy means, why their hands suddenly feel wiggly, or what to do when a feeling seems bigger than they are. These free resources are designed to give children simple language, gentle practice, and supportive ways to begin understanding themselves.
FOR THE MOMENTS THAT FEEL BIG
2 — NAME THE FEELING
Build simple feeling words so children can begin connecting what happens in their bodies with what they may be experiencing.
3 — FIND CONNECTION
Help children identify safe grown-ups and practice words they can use when they need someone to stay, listen, or help.
4 — FIND WHAT HELPS
Explore breathing, movement, quiet, comfort, connection, and other regulation tools without expecting one strategy to work for every child.
5 — TRY AGAIN
Help children understand that mistakes, hard moments, and big feelings aren't the end of the story.
ONE IMPORTANT REMINDER
A child having a hard time isn't the same thing as a child being bad.
Feelings are information. Skills take practice. Connection gives children a safe place to learn.
WANT TO PRACTICE THROUGH STORY?
Big Feelings Bay lets children see these same skills unfold through gentle stories, lovable characters, and child-sized moments.
FAMILIES CAN LOOK DIFFERENT
Gentle ways to talk about divorce, separation, two homes, changing family structures, and the many ways a family can look.
WHEN LIFE CHANGES
Simple language for moving, changing schools, new routines, family transitions, and other changes children may be trying to understand.
FOR THE QUESTIONS THAT DON'T ALWAYS HAVE EASY ANSWERS
Family Conversations
Honest words. Child-sized explanations. A safe place to ask.
DIFFERENT HOMES, DIFFERENT RULES
Help children understand that families and households may do things differently while giving them language for questions, confusion, and feelings about those differences.
Children notice when life changes—even when they don't understand why.
They hear conversations, see different routines, notice grown-up emotions, and ask questions about families, work, money, relationships, rules, and the world around them.
These free resources are designed to help grown-ups explain complicated things with honesty and care, without asking children to carry problems that belong to adults.
WORK & MONEY
Child-friendly explanations of work, different kinds of jobs, entrepreneurship, money, and why families sometimes make different choices.
GROWN-UP PROBLEMS
Help children understand that adults sometimes have disagreements, worries, and complicated situations—and that children are not responsible for fixing them.
CHILDREN DESERVE THE TRUTH
But they don't need every detail.
We can tell children the truth in words they can safely carry. Being honest doesn't mean handing them adult information, asking them to choose sides, or making them responsible for grown-up problems. Sometimes the safest answer is simple, truthful, and followed by: “You can always ask me questions.”
When you don't know what to say, try this:
1 — START WITH WHAT THEY NEED TO KNOW
2 — USE SIMPLE, TRUE WORDS
What has changed in the child's world?
Explain only what they can understand and safely carry.
3 — MAKE ROOM FOR FEELINGS & QUESTIONS
4 — REMIND THEM WHAT ISN'T THEIR JOB
They may need to return to the conversation more than once.
Grown-up problems belong to grown-ups. Children are allowed to just be children.
NEED MORE SUPPORT FOR A CONVERSATION?
The Resource Room brings together Family Conversations, Big Feelings & SEL, classroom resources, activities, and other tools in one organized place.
We can't make every part of life easy to explain.
But we can give children honest words, safe adults, and room to ask.
FOR THE CLASSROOM MOMENTS THAT DON'T FIT IN THE LESSON PLAN
Classroom & Educator Resources
Simple tools for helping children feel safe enough to learn.
Teaching is full of moments no curriculum can fully prepare us for.
A child shuts down. A friendship falls apart. Someone is overwhelmed. The whole class needs a reset.
These free resources are designed to give educators simple, thoughtful tools for supporting connection, emotional awareness, regulation, and classroom community—without adding another complicated system to an already full day.
CONNECTION
Simple prompts and routines for helping children feel noticed, welcomed, and part of the classroom community.
FEELINGS
Tools that help young learners notice body clues, build feeling vocabulary, and understand what's happening inside.
REGULATION
Gentle classroom strategies for breathing, movement, quiet, sensory support, and taking a pause without turning calm into compliance.
FRIENDSHIP
Resources for kindness, listening, conflict, repair, empathy, and learning how to reconnect after something goes wrong.
STORY
Use stories and characters as a low-pressure way to talk about feelings, mistakes, courage, and trying again.
ONE EDUCATOR TO ANOTHER
"You don't have to solve the whole moment before you can support the child."
Sometimes the most useful first step is simply to notice, stay close, and help the child feel safe enough to come back to learning.
Connection isn't separate from the lesson. Sometimes it's what makes the lesson possible.
1 — NOTICE
What might this behavior be communicating?
When a child is having a hard moment:
2 — CONNECT
Let the child know they aren't alone.
3 — SUPPORT
Offer one simple thing that may help their body.
4 — RETURN
Teach, problem-solve, or revisit expectations when the child is ready.
TEACH THROUGH STORY
Big Feelings Bay gives educators a gentle way to introduce SEL skills through familiar characters, stories, and child-sized language.
STORY COMPANIONS
Simple prompts and activities that help children revisit what happened in a Big Feelings Bay story and connect it to their own lives.
FEELINGS & SEL PRACTICE
Simple resources that reinforce noticing, naming, connection, regulation, and trying again.
A LITTLE PIECE OF THE BAY
Big Feelings Bay Freebies
Simple story-inspired tools you can use at home or in the classroom.
Big Feelings Bay is full of stories, characters, and little skills children can practice again and again.
This section is where free companion resources will live—simple tools that help children keep learning after the story ends.
Use them to talk, color, practice, wonder, and revisit the lessons in a way that feels natural for the child in front of you.
CHARACTER ACTIVITIES
Coloring, reflection, and creative activities inspired by Ollie, Finn, Tilly, Wally, Daisy, Sunny, and friends around the Bay.
FOR GROWN-UPS
Quick guides and conversation prompts that help parents and educators extend the learning in everyday moments.
BUBBLE COVE TOOLS
Gentle visuals and activities for practicing pausing, noticing body clues, choosing support, and returning when ready.
START WITH OLLIE
Ollie Has Too Much to Do
Ollie's story helps children explore what overwhelm can feel like and practice pausing, breathing, choosing one thing, and trying again.
Noticing overwhelm · Pausing · Breathing · One thing at a time · Trying again
YOU DON'T HAVE TO USE EVERYTHING
One story. One conversation. One little activity. Sometimes that's plenty.
Watch it. Talk about it. Try something together.
That's how the Bay comes with you.
SOMETIMES YOU JUST NEED TO KNOW HOW
How-To Guides
Simple guidance for the moments when you're thinking, “Okay...what do I actually do?”
Some resources help children directly. Others help the grown-up standing beside them.
These guides are designed to break helpful ideas into small, practical steps you can understand quickly and use in real life.
No jargon. No perfect scripts. Just a clear place to begin.
HOW TO TALK ABOUT BIG FEELINGS
Practical ways to name what's happening without making the moment feel heavy or clinical.
HOW TO HELP A CHILD REGULATE
Simple tools for moving from 'overwhelmed' to 'safe enough to try again.'
HOW TO START A HARD CONVERSATION
Low-pressure prompts for when you need to explain changes, worries, or grown-up things.
HOW TO SUPPORT FRIENDSHIP & REPAIR
Gentle guidance for kindness, belonging, and fixing things when they feel broken.
HOW TO USE A RESOURCE WITHOUT OVERTHINKING IT
A reminder that connection is the goal, not completing every page perfectly.
WHEN YOU'RE NOT SURE WHAT TO DO NEXT
“What is happening right now?”
1 — NOTICE
“What would help this child feel less alone?”
2 — CONNECT
3 — CHOOSE ONE THING
4 — KEEP IT SIMPLE
“What is one small tool, conversation, or next step that could help?”
“You do not have to solve the entire problem today.”
WANT MORE THAN A QUICK GUIDE?
The Resource Room organizes deeper tools by topic, including SEL, Family Conversations, classroom resources, activities, and Big Feelings Bay companions.
Helpful doesn't have to be complicated.
Sometimes the best next step is simply knowing where to begin.
TAKE WHAT HELPS
You don't have to figure everything out today.
Start with the child in front of you and the moment you're in.
Choose one resource. Try one idea. Have one conversation.
You can always come back when you need something else.
ONE LITTLE REMINDER
Children don't need perfect grown-ups.
They need grown-ups willing to notice, listen, learn, and keep showing up.
Safe. Seen. Supported.
That's where learning begins.
With heart, Ms. Blossom