Anxiety Worksheets for Kids: CBT, SEL & Mindfulness Activities for Worry (Printable PDF)

Printable Worry Worksheets for Kids (Ages 5–12) including anxiety relief activities & CBT tools that support your child through worries, anxiety, and big emotions.

This child-friendly workbook uses CBT strategies, identifying thinking traps, mindfulness, and emotional regulation activities to help kids understand feelings, calm anxious thoughts, and build lasting confidence.

Designed by a child wellbeing expert, these 33 pages of evidence-informed worksheets use child-friendly CBT strategies, mindfulness techniques, and emotional education to help kids:

✔ Express and explore their worries
✔ Understand their thoughts and feelings
✔ Learn calming and confidence-building tools
✔ Build emotional resilience and a sense of control

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WHY PARENTS AND PROFESSIONALS LOVE THIS PACK!

✔ Designed by a child wellbeing professional with kids in mind
✔ Nurtures emotional awareness and resilience
✔ Easy to use at home or in professional settings
✔ Builds confidence and reduces anxious behaviour
✔ Developed to encourage open conversations

⭐️ "The best resource I've found to use for my young clients with anxiety! The visuals are incredible and the worksheets are super easy to follow along with! Highly recommend this product!" ⭐️

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WHAT’S INCLUDED?
A 33-page printable PDF filled with child-centred activities:

🧠 CBT-Based Worksheets:

- Worry Time: Limit rumination and create boundaries

- Worry Iceberg: Explore hidden feelings underneath anxious thoughts

- Real or Imagined?: Build awareness of the brain's fear response

- CBT Triangle: Connect thoughts, feelings, and behaviours

- Worry Detective: Use logic to challenge and break down anxious thoughts

- Worry Traps: Spot and question unhelpful thinking patterns

- Worry Worksheets 1 & 2: Problem-solve and take positive action

- Recycle & Change Your Thoughts: Shift negative thinking patterns

💛 Mindfulness & Calming Tools:

- Use Your Senses to feel Calm

- Bubble Pop Visualisation

- Let the Balloon Go

- Calm Colouring Pages (4 sheets)

- Breathing Strategy Sheet

💪 Confidence-Building Activities:

- Circle of Control: Focus on what they can influence

- My Brave Record: Build positive self-talk

- Confident Me: Visualisation drawing prompt

- Worry Popping Questions: Empower children to challenge thoughts

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WHO IS IT FOR?

Perfect for:
✅ Parents supporting children at home

✅ Teachers and school staff delivering emotional learning

✅ Therapists and mental health professionals working with kids

Ages: Suitable for children aged 5- 12 years.
Activities can be adapted for individual needs or used as a structured workbook.

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DOWNLOAD INFORMATION:
-This is a digital item that you can print at home. No physical item is shipped.
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- Younger children should use with adult support

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CONTENT CREATION:
Ink and Scribbles writes and creates emotional education resources with some graphic support from freelance designers.
Credit for this item: Character Graphics by Lime and Kiwi Designs.

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DISCLAIMER:

This resource supports emotional wellbeing but is not a substitute for medical advice. Please consult a healthcare professional for clinical concerns.

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YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE THESE WORRY RESOURCES:
Looking for something with additional educational material?

Check out 'My Worry Workbook', a resource for 5 - 12 year olds which includes in depth information and child friendly explanations about anxiety:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/994963193/child-anxiety-workbook-printable-o

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This printable worry workbook is a versatile anxiety support resource for children, combining kids worry worksheets, CBT activities, mindfulness tools, and emotional regulation exercises to support social emotional learning at home, in school, or in child therapy settings.