Free Resources for Children That Help Kids Feel Safe & Supported
Free resources for children including printable worksheets, calming tools, SEL activities, and family support resources for classrooms, counseling spaces, and home use. No email required.
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No email required. No account. No paywall. Just download and use.
Print-ready files
All files are print-ready. Print at home, at a copy shop, or send directly to your school printer.
Cards — cut and laminate
Regulation cards and emotion cards are designed to be cut out and laminated for repeated use.
Posters — display anywhere
Classroom walls, calm corners, counseling offices, kitchen tables — these tools work wherever children are.
Ready-to-use tools for real classroom moments
Simple, visual, and easy to integrate into your day — morning meetings, calm corners, small groups, and transitions.
Pebble Kindness Poster
A classroom display poster showing small choices that create ripples of kindness. Print and display at any size.
Meet Toby
Introduce Toby to your class with this character guide and big feelings overview — perfect for the first read-aloud.
Why Toby
One-page research-backed overview of why Toby the Turtle is used in SEL classrooms and counseling settings.
Parent Letter
A ready-to-send letter introducing The Little Pebble Books to families — explains the characters, tools, and how to use them at home.
Turtle Calm-Down Poster
The Turtle Shell Calm-Down Method — a visual regulation tool for classroom calm corners, counseling offices, and home use.
Tools designed to move from story to regulation
Supporting emotional awareness, expression, and healing — in session, in group, and at home.
Head to Toe Body Check
A somatic feelings check-in tool — children identify where they feel emotions in their body. Poster, guide, steps, and song included.
Ocean Breathing
Breathe in like a wave rising, breathe out like a wave rolling back to shore. Poster and cards for session use.
Book Matcher & Research
Match the right book to the right child — and a one-page research overview of the program’s clinical foundation.
Tools for the moment before everything else begins
For police officers, caseworkers, EMTs, and community professionals who encounter frightened children in crisis — simple tools to offer comfort, connection, and calm in the field.
Meet Toby — First Responder Field Guide
A complete field guide — who Toby is, how to use him in a crisis moment, the Turtle Shell Calm-Down steps, and how to sponsor kits for your department.
Turtle Shell Calm-Down Field Sheet
The full facilitation script adapted for field use — what to say, when to use it, how to introduce it in a removal, a crisis scene, or during transport. Includes important field notes.
Turtle Shell Calm-Down Visual Guide
8-step visual guide with Toby illustrations — hand directly to a child or follow along together. Works immediately in the field, in a patrol car, or at a placement scene.
Pebble Breathing Card
A simple visual breathing tool to hand directly to a child in a crisis moment — no words needed, no explanation required. Print and keep in your kit.
Song & Movement Guide
All 8 verses with movement cues — adapted for field use. You don’t need to sing it. Read it slowly, do the movements, and let the child watch. Especially useful for SROs and victim advocates.
Coloring Pages for Children at Crisis Scenes
Hand a child a coloring sheet of the person standing right in front of them — police officer, firefighter, or EMT. An immediate connection tool that gives little hands something to do while the adults figure out what comes next.
Sponsor a First Response Kit
Put a full kit in every patrol car or caseworker’s bag. Contact The Little Pebble Books to sponsor kits for your department, agency, fire station, or EMT team.
Gentle tools to support emotional learning at home
Through connection, conversation, and everyday moments — tools that fit naturally into your home and rhythm.
Feelings Poster
Six basic types of emotions — a visual reference for home, kitchen, or learning space. Helps children name what they feel.
Emotion Cards
Three sets of emotion cards — cut out, laminate, and use for check-ins, conversations, and feelings identification at home.
Fly Like a Birdie
A 7-step breathing and movement tool created by Trish with her son. Poster and cards to cut out, laminate, and keep anywhere.
I Am Loved Just As I Am
A gentle affirmation resource reminding children they are loved exactly as they are — no conditions, no exceptions.
Color with Toby & Oliver
Free coloring pages and activity sheets featuring Toby the Turtle, Oliver the Bear, community helpers, and friends. Print them, use them, and come back to them again and again.
Affirmation Coloring Pages
Featuring Toby the Turtle
Gentle affirmation pages children can color when they need encouragement, comfort, and a reminder of who they are.
Toby’s Shell
Featuring Toby the Turtle
Help Toby feel brave by coloring his shell and using the page as a gentle conversation starter about comfort, courage, and safety.
View / DownloadOliver the Smallest Bear
Featuring Oliver the Bear
Even the smallest bear can choose kindness. Color Oliver and write or draw what being kind looks like.
View / DownloadMeasuring My Emotions
Featuring Toby
Five emotion thermometers — happy, sad, angry, nervous, and excited. Children color each one to show how much of that feeling they are carrying today. A powerful check-in tool for classrooms, counseling sessions, and home.
View / DownloadMy Pebble
Inspired by The Pebble
Use a real pebble for this meaningful activity. Write one word on it that reminds you of something good — something to carry with you wherever you go.
View / DownloadFind the Ladybug
Featuring Toby
The ladybug is hiding somewhere in every Little Pebble Book. Can you find her? Color the scene and circle where she is hiding.
View / DownloadPolice Officer Coloring Pages
Community Helpers
Color the police officers who help keep communities safe. A great conversation starter about the helpers in your community.
Firefighter Coloring Pages
Community Helpers
Color the firefighters who are brave and strong. A wonderful way to talk about courage, helping others, and community helpers who care.
More resources are on the way
New tools are being added regularly. Here’s what’s coming next:
Bilingual family letters — English & Spanish
CASEL alignment guide
Morning meeting cards
Knitting pattern for Oliver’s NICU hearts
Small group facilitation guides
Additional coloring pages for each book
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More resources are being added regularly. If you are a teacher, therapist, or homeschool parent who would like a specific resource created for a theme or character, reach out.
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