Wishing Well Wishes

Wishing Well Wishes Worksheet | Bereavement Activity for Children | Emotional Expression Tool
 
The Wishing Well Wishes worksheet offers children a gentle, creative way to explore their hopes, desires, or emotions, especially when coping with bereavement. This versatile, black-and-white two-page worksheet features a wishing well illustration and a collection of blank hearts and stars, allowing children to write messages or wishes as part of their emotional processing.
 
A Tool for Emotional Exploration
Versatile Design: While perfect for bereavement, this worksheet can be used in various contexts, encouraging children to express their wishes, hopes, or dreams by writing them on the provided hearts and stars.
Bereavement Support: In the case of grief, children can write messages or wishes to a deceased loved one, helping them process their feelings and providing a meaningful, symbolic way to say goodbye.
Creative Expression: Children can decorate their wishing well and stick the hearts and stars on the well itself, or place clear acetate at the bottom, allowing them to “post” their messages.
Mindful, Therapeutic Activity: This resource supports emotional expression through art and writing, offering children a safe and nurturing way to communicate complex emotions.
 
How It Works:
Design the Wishing Well: Children begin by decorating the wishing well in their own way, using crayons, markers, or coloured pencils to personalise it.
Write on the Hearts and Stars: The included hearts and stars are blank for children to write wishes, hopes, or messages, which they can cut out and place onto their designed wishing well.
Versatile Use: Whether used as a tool for emotional exploration in everyday life or during times of grief and loss, this activity allows children to put their wishes or messages into words. The wishes can be kept private, posted on the well, or even “sent” by sliding them into an acetate pocket.
 
What’s Included:
1 Wishing Well Worksheet: Black and white, simple design ready for personalisation.
2 Pages of Blank Hearts and Stars: Encouraging creative expression with space for children to write their wishes or messages.
3. Helpful Parent/Professional Guide Included To support both parents and professionals in using this tool, a helpful guide is provided alongside the worksheet. 
 
Perfect For:
Children's Bereavement Support: This activity can be used in bereavement counselling, grief therapy, or by families to help children express their feelings of loss.
Everyday Emotional Exploration: Not limited to grief, it’s also a fun, reflective activity for exploring desires, dreams, and feelings.
Home or Classroom Use: A great resource for parents, teachers, and therapists looking to engage children in gentle emotional exploration.
 
Digital Download for Immediate Access This Wishing Well Wishes worksheet is a digital download, provided as a PDF file. Print it as many times as you like for personal, classroom, or therapeutic use.