Helping Children Understand and Prepare for Intensive Care

ICU Steps, the intensive care patient support charity, have produced an activity booklet to help children who may go into intensive care or who may have a relative in intensive care. You can find it here 

 

Helping Young Children Get Used to the Idea of Facemasks

Graphic designer Nick Sharratt has created these lovely images and colouring sheets to help younger children to get used to the idea of everyone wearing facemasks.  Also has ones on handwashing! You can find them on the link below:

http://nicksharratt.com/

 

 

Interactive Book for talking about worries with young children during COVID 

A picture book that you can screen share with a child to talk through what worries feel like and what we can do to help us feel better 

https://en.calameo.com/read/000777721945cfe5bb9cc?authid=Xu9pcOzU3TQx  

 

Information leaflet and a short video from Public Health England 

https://campaignresources.phe.gov.uk/resources/campaigns/101/resources/5093  

 

What is coronavirus? A fact sheet for kids  

 

COVID Books for Children 

A lovely illustrated guide for children to talk about COVID, illustrated by Alex Scheffler (who does the Julia Donaldson books) - PDF version link and web-based link 

https://nosycrowcoronavirus.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/Coronavirus_ABookForChildren.pdf  

 

https://nosycrow.com/blog/released-today-free-information-book-explaining-coronavirus-children-illustrated-gruffalo-illustrator-axel-scheffler/  

 

Dave the Dog book about COVID for very young children

dave-the-dog-coronavirus-1-1.pdf (003)