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Age 5–10

My worry cloud

Three steps for a younger child: name the worry, move it towards help, or put it in a safe box until they are ready.

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Preview of the My worry cloud worksheet, showing a worry cloud, a helping rainbow and a safe box

What it is for

Most worry sheets ask a child to name a worry and then do something about it. This one adds a third option, and it is the one that makes it unusual: the safe box. “If your worry feels too big, put it in your safe box until you’re ready.”

That gives a child explicit permission not to talk about something yet — rare in a direct work tool, and worth having. A child who knows they are allowed to stop is more likely to start.

Using it in a session

  • Let them tell rather than write. The sheet says “draw or tell”. For a five-year-old, telling while you listen is the whole activity.
  • Do not rush past the cloud. Naming the worry is the hard part. The rainbow and the box are easy once something is in the cloud.
  • Offer the safe box early. Mentioning it at the start, not as a fallback at the end, is what makes it feel like a choice rather than a failure.
  • A worry that goes in the box still counts. Note it. It is not refusal, it is a child pacing themselves, and it is worth returning to.
  • Say the closing line. “Worries are smaller when we share them.” For this age group, hearing it said by an adult is the point.

If everything goes in the safe box, the sheet has still worked — you have learned the worry is too big to open today. What you do with that is your judgement, not the sheet’s.

What is on the sheet

  1. My worry cloud — draw or tell what is worrying you
  2. Let’s get some help — moving the worry to the helping rainbow
  3. My safe box — for a worry that feels too big today
  4. A closing line about sharing worries

Forty-nine worksheets, all free

Built in practice by a working social worker, for children, young people and the people around them. New sheets are added as they are needed.

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