Worry Warriors

According to Guatemalan legend, worry dolls have the ability to remove worries from sleeping children. Children tell one worry to each doll when they go to bed at night and place the dolls under their pillow. In the morning the dolls have taken their worries away.  With that same premise in mind, my Stress Relief group makes Worry Warriors.   

To make these cute little guys, I save up medicine bottles, remove the label and allow the students to decorate as they please.  We use googly eyes, sharpies, pom poms, chenille sticks, ribbon, glitter, etc. You get the picture. Once their Worry Warrior is complete, we glue it to an upside down sticky note pad. Whenever the students have a problem that they are worried about, they take off a sticky note from the bottom, write down their worry, fold it up, and give it to the Worry Warrior to worry about.

The children really enjoyed making these and when I saw one of my students over the weekend, she came up to tell me she had already given her Worry Warrior a worry and it worked!