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Let’s Create Your Own Personalized Calm Down Kit In 5-Minutes
After helping you in making your personalized daily routine in 5-minutes, I am back again with a new blog…
Today, I am going to help you with how to make your own personalized calm down kit in 5-minutes. Wondering why calm down kit?
Well, we are all aware of the fact that we are all stressed and anxious due to overworking, over-managing, and over-performing. In this modern era of technology, we definitely need something that reminds us of calmness, peacefulness, and positivity. Whenever you enter the fight or flight response, you can use your own customized calm down kit to calm down and reinstate the mood instantly.
This calm down kit will not only help in calming down but will also help in preventing future meltdowns or negative thoughts and will help in promoting your decision-making skills. The best part about this calm down kit is that you can carry it anywhere and you can take the help of this kit whenever you feel distressed, anxious, or negative.
Let us begin with making your own customized calm down kit… all you have to do is to bookmark or save the link of this blog so that you can take help anytime you want.
Before we begin, let us see what are the benefits of keeping a calm down kit?
Benefits of Calm Down Kit
- Helps in avoiding stress
- Promotes problem-solvingskills
- Prevents future meltdowns
- Keeps you well-managed
- Promotes positivity
- Reduces anxious or negative thoughts
- Breaks bad habits
- Keeps your mental health intact
- Promotes happiness and liveliness
Do’s and Don’ts of a Calm Down Kit
Do’s
- Make it light-weighted and easy to carry
- Put age-appropriate items
- Put necessary items
- Put independently usable items
Don’ts
- Avoid adding digital devices
- Avoid adding heavy-weight stuff
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What to put in a Calm Down Kit (70+ Ideas)?
Below is the list of things that you can put in your own calm down kit. You can pick whatever you like from the list. It’s a big list of 70+ ideas that are specially designed to help you in every way. You can take your notebook and mention things that you would like to add to your own calm down kit.
Make sure you’re not taking too much in your kit; the idea is to create your light-weighted and easy-to-carry calm down kit so that you can use it anytime and anywhere instantly.
- Add fidget toys
- Add stress-relievingballs
- Add light-weighted stuffed animals
- Add a body sock for instant stress relief
- Add a slimebox of your favorite color
- Add play-doh consisting of your favorite colors
- Add theraputty for therapeutic relief
- Add bubble wrap for removing anxious thoughts
- Add small massagers to relieve stress and tension throughout your body
- Add a cozy small blanket
- Add aromatic candles
- Add an aromatic diffuser with essential oils
- Add a heated blanket for reliving chronic pins
- Add an eye mask for quick napping
- Must include- Therapy brush for sensory regulation and deep massaging
- Add a pressure vest
- Add aromatic wipes to wipe off the stress
- Add pipe cleaners for a soft touch and fidgety hands
- Add soft fabric scarves or scraps for a soft touch
- Add mini-puzzlesor games
- Add puzzles like Sudoku
- Add mini cards to remind yourself that you’re worth it
- Add question cards to remind yourself gratefulness
- Add word searches to remind yourself of the best times you’ve lived
- Add mini or miniature books to relievestress productively
- Add spy games
- Add affirmation cards to gain some motivation
- Add etch a sketch
- Add notepads and colorfulpens to write your thoughts
- Add mood-o-meter
- Add crosswords
- Add mazes
- Add Rubik’s cube
- Add brain cards
- Add chalkboard and colorfulchalks
- Add cat’s cradle
- Add speaking tom
- Add headphones or iPods
- Add earplugs to avoid extra noise
- Add audiobooks
- Add your favorite podcast library
- Add nature sounds
- Add a whistle to blow off your stress and anxiety
- Add harmonica
- Add a small drawing book to let flow your creativity
- Add spinning top
- Add legos
- Add tissue paper for tearing down your stress
- Add a balance cushion
- Add sensory tunnel
- Add a cardboardbox and add your small memories
- Add a small mirror to remind yourself that you’re worth taking on challenges
- Add scratch and sniff stickers
- Add yoga poses cards
- Add deep breathing cards
- Add pinwheel
- Add beautiful beads
- Add jump rope
- Add a small punching bag
- Add resistance bands
- Add a crunchy snacks
- Add gummy snacks
- Add calm down bottles
- Add a small bottle ofwater
- Add sunglasses to avoid rays of negativity
- Add an hourglass
- Add a small photo album
- Add a snow globe
- Add bubble-makingtools
- Add mini trampoline
- Add a kaleidoscope
I hope this blog helps you with creating your own personalized calm down kit in 5-minutes. Comment down and recommend topics to help you in making your own personalized mental health kits. For more such content, connect with us on all social media platforms.
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