What is a Calming Corner? 

What is a calming corner, you may ask? The concept is fairly straightforward. A calm-down corner is a designated space where students (or teachers!) can go to de-stress and handle their emotions when they are feeling overwhelmed, upset, or stressed out. This area is typically furnished with tools and exercises designed to help them settle down and regain control over their feelings.

How to Create a Calm Corner in Your Classroom

A calming corner consists of several easy-to-acquire tools and resources your students will find beneficial when dealing with strong emotions. Some typical features found in calming corners are:

• Comfortable Seating: A cozy chair, bean bag, or floor cushions.
• Soft Lighting: Lamps or fairy lights to create a soothing atmosphere.
• Sensory Tools: Items like stress balls, fidget toys, or sensory materials.
• Books: Stories or picture books about emotions and coping strategies.
• Art Supplies: Crayons, colouring books, or drawing paper

On top of those, a calming corner also provides materials for students to use to help them learn strategies and ways to manage their emotions. These include

• Calm Down Cards
• Motivational Posters
• Visual aids with techniques for calming down, such as deep breathing exercises, yoga poses, etc.
• Mindful colouring activities

Download Your Calming Corner Decor With Ease!

This printable resource pack includes a wide variety of colourful posters, charts, and reference tools for you to use to decorate your calming corner and help your students manage those big emotions when they come along. This printable PDF file includes the following:

• Calming Corner Classroom Sign for labelling the area
• Inhale/Exhale, 5 Things Calming Countdown, and other calming technique posters
• Kid-Friendly Yoga Poses for Calming Big Feelings Poster
• Emotions Chart for helping students express the emotions they are feeling at the moment
• Calm Down Cards with a variety of calming activity options
• 5-4-3-2-1 Calming Strategy Poster
• Student Checkin Charts and Rating Scale
• And More!

This resource is available in full-colour PDF format. To download your file, click the dropdown arrow on the download button and select your file.

Even More Calm Down Corner Printables for the Classroom!

Are you looking for more? Check out these handy calm-down corner printables for your classroom before you go!

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Name Five Things - Calming Strategy Task Cards

Use the ‘Name 5 Things’ Calming Strategy in your classroom to help students regain self-control with printable calming activity task cards.

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Calm-Down Strategy Cards

Help your students choose and apply strategies when they need to calm down with this comprehensive set of calm-down strategy cards.