Resources

Explore ways to handle big feelings with Daniel Tiger and his friends using this collection of short videos and hands-on activities.

Watch this Donkey Hodie video clip together and learn how to look for clues in people’s faces and bodies to observe how they are feeling. Then, make your own feelings magnifying glass to practice this skill together.

Watch these videos together when kids need to calm down. Cookie Monster and Abby Cadabby share coping strategies to build resilience and model skills that kids can remember and use on their own.

This collection of short video clips from Skillsville helps kids learn how to focus and pay attention to important details. Watch the video together and do the career role-play activity to help learners develop this important skill.

This Daniel Tiger collection helps children learn that sharing builds friendships and is more fun than keeping things just for themselves. The teacher tips include strategies for encouraging sharing in the classroom, and bilingual family materials extend the learning at home.

Watch a video together with real families talking about the qualities of what makes a good friend, what to do when someone is being a bully, and how to be a friend to others. Then, share printable activities to apply the learning.

Ruff Ruffman answers questions from kids, takes on challenges, and learns the value of failure! Bring the fun of Ruff’s scientific investigations into your classroom and use the letters to families to extend the learning at home.

Watch a video together featuring real families talking about how they keep going when school, sports, or other challenges become hard. Then, use discussion prompts to invite kids to apply the learning.

Listen to this strategy song about Daniel’s morning routine that helps him remember what he needs to do. Teach kids the morning routine song to help them remember the essential steps to get ready for each day.

Watch a short episode of Lyla in the Loop to model how to approach routines and transitions with creative and playful problem-solving ideas. Then, use printable challenge cards and a storytelling set for hands-on learning.

Belly Breathing is the first step in “Breathe, Think, Do,” a three-step strategy for teaching problem-solving, self-control, planning, and persistence. Help a monster friend calm down and solve everyday challenges in this interactive game.

In this interactive tea party game, children work on important social skills like thinking about the needs of others, taking turns, and how toget along with friends.

This interactive begins with a Muppet leading a short breathing exercise. Then, children choose one of six calming activities, like drawing in sand, and stamping in glitter. Each session ends with a final breathing exercise.

Use this bilingual set of printables to engage kids in creative problem-solving. Play bingo, do an animal tracks matching game, test memory skills, practice kitchen math, and design your own bridge.

Use this interactive spinning wheel to randomly select different strategy songs from Daniel Tiger that help children learn to practice and persevere.

Use the feelings poster and emotions wheel to help children understand how to identify, label, and express feelings. Then, use the bilingual cards to play matching games, create stories, play charades, and make a feelings jar.

Get kids moving their bodies, practice controlling their bodies, and develop their gross motor skills. Play Get Moving Bingo, do exercises together, play animal charades, or do alphabet aerobics to get moving together.

These printables provide fun activities that invite kids to initiate positive interactions with others. Play Being Kind Bingo, make a schedule, design friendship cards, and more!

Use these friends and neighbors activity sheets to allow children to choose their own learning adventures. Document family memories, draw pictures, create Kindness Loops, and write thank-you notes.

Work on feelings about separation and independence, memory skills, developing self-control, and expressing feelings. Teacher tips share strategies for supporting children in adjusting to new experiences with bilingual family materials.

Use this bilingual set of printables to engage kids in shared caring tasks like doing chores, establishing morning routines, bathing, and saying thank you.

Use this bilingual set of printables to engage kids in creating and practicing routines around chores, taking turns, planning their day, healthy habits, and more.