Big Feelings & Worries

A little help for big feelings

Four gentle Collyvale activities help children share a worry, slow things down, find comfort and make safer choices when anger feels big.

Share → Calm → Comfort → Choose. Start with whichever activity feels useful today.

For parents & grown-ups →

Pencils at the ready

Little things to make and do.

Choose a coloring page, try a Collyvale puzzle and print your favorites. Ask a grown-up to help with downloading and printing.

Choose an activity
Preview of the Riley coloring page

Coloring corner

Meet the characters.
Choose the colors.

These pages use big, clear shapes for younger children. Choose a favorite character or creature and download the page you would like to color.

Creature corner

Color something
a little more curious.

More Collyvale friends have wandered onto the activity shelf. Choose a familiar face or discover somebody new.

Printing tip: choose A4 paper and “fit to page”. Ordinary printer paper is perfect for crayons and pencils.

Look very closely

Can you spot
five differences?

Three gentle puzzles take you to The Wobble Shop, Collyvale Primary and The Listening Woods. Each printable includes its own answer page.

All three spot-the-difference puzzlesOne six-page A4 PDF, with answers
Download the full set
Two similar pictures of The Wobble Shop with five differences to find

5 differences

The Wobble Shop

Something has changed outside Muddle’s little shop.

Download puzzle
Two similar pictures of a Collyvale Primary classroom with five differences to find

5 differences

Collyvale Primary

Look around the classroom before the lesson begins.

Download puzzle
Two similar pictures of The Listening Woods with five differences to find

5 differences

The Listening Woods

A few little things have moved among the trees.

Download puzzle

A little adventure around the village

Follow the Collyvale Lantern Trail.

Nine lanterns are waiting across Collyvale. Visit each place, light the lantern you find there, then watch them all glow together on Lantern Lane. Your trail progress stays on this device as you wander.

Start the Lantern Trail Visit Lantern Lane

New — collect as you explore

Open your Collyvale Sticker Book.

Complete the picture hunts around Collyvale and a little celebration will award you a character or creature sticker. Your collection stays on this device, and grown-ups can download collected stickers for printing.

See my Sticker Book
Mr. Pottle with his Manyfold Pouch

A new little adventure

Mr. Pottle has lost five tiny deliveries.

Follow him around Collyvale, return each little object to the Manyfold Pouch and earn a special helper sticker. There is no timer and no rush.

Help Mr. Pottle →

More along the path

The activity shelf has room to grow.

New trails and make-your-own Collyvale ideas can be added here as their stories are ready.

Choices & peer influence

Echo's Pause, Think, Choose

Three little steps for moments when everyone else is doing something and a child isn't sure whether to follow.

Try Echo's activity →