The Huge Bag of Worries

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The story is about a girl who starts to worry about lots of everyday things and one day she wakes up to a huge bag of worries. High on energy and imagination, this ode to self-esteem encourages kids to appreciate everything about themselves--inside and out. They could design a card, record a message, draw a picture, record themselves singing a song at home or even play a piece of music. Although everything in Jenny’s life appears positive at the start of the story, her bag of worries grows bigger and bigger until the weight, the burden of her worries becomes too much to bear and she breaks down.

For those children who want to explore shape and bubbles a little more – parents/carers can bend coat hangers into different shapes. A moving, powerful story that shines a light on those that feel invisible in our world - and shows us that we ALL belong - from the author of Ruby's Worry.A funny rhyming story about dealing with change and overcoming worries, from the bestselling creators of The Lion Inside. She worries about her weight, her arguing parents, her grades at school, and the departure of her best friend. Look at some of the messages which came from children to other countries – this clip looks at the origins of the rainbows and some of the messages - https://www.

It also enables you to think about strategies to deal with your worries such as developing your network and who could help you feel safe.

Now ask the children to start composing the message and think about how they would like to send this – there are lots of different choices. It can also help you understand that some worries are simply not yours at all and that while you may be concerned, you are not responsible.

If you’re feeling crafty, making a Worry Worm is a great way to help your children open up about their emotions. if the children are happy to share the worries from the bag let them do so and discuss the strategies they could use to deal with the worry. After reading this book, I realised that I could share my worries with someone, who will help me get rid of my worries. This is a lovely book that covers the issue of having worries and these being a weight on your shoulders. uk/news/av/uk-scotland-52117854/coronavirus-always-think-positively-we-are-all-with-you Ask the children to think about who they would like to send a message of hope to now.Now invite the children to take their bubbles and their monster outside and blow away those worries. The zoo send a series of unsuitable pets, revealed behind flaps in the form of crates and packing cases.

Make a worry monster with a big mouth so that it can eat up worries – the children might want to use junk modelling or even paper mache (recipe - https://www. It would have been good if there had been some talking points at the back of the story to help start a conversation about worries we might have and how we could be like the characters in the story.It might be a friend, a grandparent, the people in their neighbourhood or even a stranger in another country. Today, he is the author/illustrator of almost fifty books for children, covering a wide age range from picture books through books for older readers to a novel for teenagers. The Government in Wales has signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), stating that children and young people have rights, no matter who they are, where they live or what they believe in. Exasperated and exhausted by the weight of her worries, she eventually breaks down outside her home, where a wise, old neighbour lady notices her distress and offers to help Jenny with her bag of worries.