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

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. Build on the feelings discussion with a coping skills choice board for planning helpful responses.

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.