Calming Cards

Product Description: 

• Deck of 100+ Calming Cards 
• Includes calming activities, sensory strategies, and a variety of breathing exercises
• This Neurodiversity-affirming deck goes beyond traditional calming cards and makes space for sensory strategies, easy-to-access breathing activities, and stimming.  
• Many calming card strategies include multiple presentations for accessibility, inclusion, preference, context, and understanding. 
• These highly-visual cards include written word and colored graphics to support understanding, conceptualization, ideation, and even communication. 
• Includes blank cards to create your own calming cards
• Unlimited prints! 

Ideas for Use:

The purpose of these cards is to create a “bank” of strategies that can be audited down for accessibility, appropriateness, preferences, and capacities of the person or self.  This deck can be used by parents, providers, caregivers, or yourself. Ideas include: 

• Print and cut out the calming cards 
• Laminate cards for durability 
• Punch a hole in the corner of each laminated card and install a keyring for easy access 
• Keep cards in a binder in plastic trading card sleeves for better visibility 
• Make a Calming Cards photo album on your device. Have a photo of each card in the album to swipe through, point to, etc. This can be a way to make the cards more accessible and transportable. 
• Get familiar with the cards while in a calm state. Practice, learn, and/or model accessing the strategies while calm. Learning the cards while in a calm state is important.
• Sort the cards into piles such as “yes,” “no,” “maybe,” “maybe later,” etc. 
• Make a pile of cards for different locations (may require printing more than one set).
• Tape or hang card/s where they may be used as a visual cue/reminder. 
• Print two sets of cards and use them to play memory to get familiar with the cards.
• Print multiple sets of cards and use them to play “Go Fish” to get familiar with the cards. 
• Calming cards can be used to support communicating needs by handing them to someone, pointing at them, etc