The Huge Bag of Worries

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How to grow a rainbow – https://melscience.com/US-en/articles/how-grow-rainbow-home/ As well as being a fun activity, this allows the children to explore the science behind different materials and how water travels through them. It's important every child has someone they trust to look to for help. Childline is always here when they need someone to listen. Exasperated and exhausted by the weight of her worries, she eventually breaks down outside her home, where a wise, old neighbour lady notices her distress and offers to help Jenny with her bag of worries.

The Huge Bag of Worries by Virginia Ironside tells the story of Jenny, a happy girl with a lovely mum and dad, a great brother, a dog named Loftus, best friends and a wonderful teacher at school. But just lately, Jenny has started worrying. Now ask the children to start composing the message and think about how they would like to send this – there are lots of different choices. They could design a card, record a message, draw a picture, record themselves singing a song at home or even play a piece of music. This would be a good opportunity to involve the whole family – record the message and send it to the chosen recipient.

This My Rainbow Worries Worksheet supports children with breaking down their worry into three chunks: In the Bible, it tells us that Jesus spoke about worrying. In Matthew 6.25 and 27-29 (NRSV), the following famous words are recorded: ‘Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. . . . And c an any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life? And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these.’ The Huge Bag of Worries is one of my favourite books. It is amazing for helping your child with their fears and worries. Doing thislovely craft activity is both fun and therapeutic for children. Being able to anonymously discuss different worries from the display with the rest of the class will reassure them that they're not alone. Invite the children to think about who their trusted adults are and who they can talk to if they have a worry – they may want to make a card for their special person or send them a picture of them with their worry monster.

The illustrations in the book are very bright and colourful and give lots of highlights to the important points in the story.

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One of the activities I like to do after reading the book is to give a child a bag and using potatoes add them to the bag one at a time so they get a real feel of how worries can weigh you down. After putting a few potatoes in then take one out at a time as you offload those worries to to someone. The bag feels lighter and you can feel lighter and happier.

Article 13, which states that all children have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to speak, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of the child’s choice; The connected father: understanding your unique role and responsibility during your child's adolescence There could have been more information about some of the worries that the other characters have, it is helpful to see that for example Mum and Dad also have worries but this could have been talked about more. There are lots of worries in the bag but none are talked about in too much detail, it would have been good to maybe name and explore some in a bit more detail at the end to help with sorting them into groups.

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