TALKING TO KIDS ABOUT COVID-19
Below, you can find COVID-specific resources, such as activity packets, social stories, and videos.
Stay At Home Care Packet
Big Life Journal is dedicated to helping you and your children get through this unsettling period of increased shelter at home.
At the link below, you can download Big Life Journal's exclusive Stay-At-Home Care pack with ideas to get your children moving and learning while staying indoors!
VIDEO: The Yucky Bug: A Story To Explain COVID-19
Author Julia Cook is well known for writing children's books that explain difficult concepts in terms everyone can understand. She has done just that by writing The Yucky Bug, which aims to explain COVID-19 to children in a way that is direct but reassuring. Check out the video at the link below.
COVID-19 TIME Capsule
Looking for a fun activity for your kids that will help capture the uniqueness of this period in time. Click on the link below for a printable COVID-19 Time Capsule activity (from Sunnyside School Counseling Resources). My personal favorite page is the "Interview Your Parents" page. It will be so neat for kids to be able to look back on this time in the future through the lens of this time capsule!
Downloadable Book About COVID-19
Axel Scheffler has illustrated a digital book for primary school age children, free for anyone to read on screen or print out, about the coronavirus and the measures taken to control it. Published by Nosy Crow, and written by staff within the company, the book has had expert input: Professor Graham Medley of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine acted as a consultant, and the company also had advice from two head teachers and a child psychologist.