Mood Music--Printable Coping Skill and Music Activity for Resiliency Skills

Match a song they already know to each of nine named feelings

Name specific songs to turn to when feeling sad, angry, worried or nervous, building a personal list to draw on later

Distinguish between a song that creates a feeling and a song that helps with one

Recognise that some music makes a mood worse, using the annoyed box as the worked case

Model one box with a song the whole group knows before students start - a blank grid is hard to begin from cold

Only one page of the file is the student sheet, so set the print range before running off a class set

The four when-I-feel prompts are the ones worth revisiting weeks later, since a coping list only works if the student still remembers what is on it

Treat the annoyed box as a discussion point about what not to put on in a difficult moment rather than as an odd question

Because students supply their own titles, agree beforehand how songs with explicit lyrics will be handled

Naming emotions - the nine prompts put confident, sad, angry, happy, worried, annoyed, calm, nervous and excited on one page as separate states to be matched to a song.

Building a personal coping plan - four boxes ask which song a student would choose when already sad, angry, worried or nervous, which turns the sheet into a short list of regulation strategies in their own words.

Noticing how music affects mood - the sheet opens by stating that music can help us express ourselves and calm down, and several boxes ask which song produces a feeling rather than answers one.

Recognising an unhelpful choice - one box asks for a song that makes the writer annoyed, so the activity also names music to avoid when already struggling.