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Working with Emotions,
'Anger, Fear & Worry' Series (Lessons 1-5)

Everything you need in one bundle—five connected lessons that help pre-teens better understand and learn to work with their Emotions.

✔ All 5 complete lessons
✔ Progressive, connected teaching
✔ Activities + discussion questions
✔ Parent/teacher cheat sheets
✔ Low-prep structure that fits real life

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Handling Emotions Series cover image for preteens featuring lessons on anger, fear, and worry, with scenes of prayer, journaling, discussion, and emotional reflection from a Christian perspective.

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Handling Emotions,
‘Why we feel Emotions’

Handling Emotions,
‘Dealing with Anger’
Handling Emotions,
‘Facing Fear’
Handling Emotions,
‘Working with Worry’
Handling Emotions,
‘Bringing Emotion to God’

See What’s Inside the Series

Real pages from the lessons so that you know exactly what you’re getting.
Here are the Front Covers from the first three lessons

Handling Emotions lesson cover for preteens exploring why people feel emotions, featuring happy, sad, worried, and thoughtful children, emotional awareness activities, prayer, and healthy coping strategies from a Christian perspective.
Handling Emotions lesson cover for preteens focused on dealing with anger, featuring students experiencing frustration, calming techniques, prayer, reflection, healthy anger-management strategies, and biblical guidance for emotional self-control.
Cover page for Handling Emotions: Facing Fear, a Christian preteen lesson about understanding and overcoming fear through faith. The cover features preteens participating in group activities, a blindfold trust exercise, a worry box, Bible verses, mountain landscapes, and gaming consoles, emphasizing courage, trust, and emotional growth.

Here are some sample pages of the five lessons in this Series

Lesson 1

Handling Emotions,
'Why we feel Emotions?'

Table of Contents

  • The Cover Page
  • B/W Cover for coloring in
  • Ice-Breaker
  • Core Truth
  • Discussion
  • An Activity
  • Teacher Hints and Tips
Black-and-white coloring page cover for Handling Emotions: Why We Feel Emotions, featuring preteens experiencing different emotions, healthy coping strategies, prayer, reflection, and emotional awareness activities in a Christian lesson for preteens.

Lesson 2

Handling Emotions,
'Dealing with Anger'

Table of Contents

  • The Cover Page
  • B/W Cover for coloring in
  • Ice-Breaker
  • Core Truth
  • Discussion
  • An Activity
  • Teacher Hints and Tips
Black-and-white coloring page cover for Handling Emotions: Dealing with Anger, featuring preteens experiencing frustration, calming down through prayer and reflection, and learning healthy anger-management strategies in a Christian lesson for preteens.
Core Truth lesson page from Handling Emotions: Dealing with Anger, teaching preteens that anger is normal but must be handled wisely. Features Bible verses, causes of anger, healthy responses, and practical guidance for emotional self-control.

Lesson 3

Handling Emotions,
'Facing Fear'

Table of Contents

  • The Cover Page
  • B/W Cover for coloring in
  • Ice-Breaker
  • Core Truth
  • Discussion
  • An Activity
  • Teacher Hints and Tips
Black-and-white coloring page cover for Handling Emotions: Facing Fear, a Christian preteen lesson about courage, trust, and overcoming fear through faith. The page features preteens participating in a blindfold trust activity, group discussion, and a worry box exercise, alongside a Bible, Scripture notes, mountain scenery, gaming controllers, and encouraging messages such as “Fear is real, but God is bigger” and Isaiah 41:10.
Discussion page from Handling Emotions: Facing Fear for preteens. The page features a small group of students talking together and explores common fears, worries, anxiety, “what if” thinking, healthy coping strategies, prayer, trusted adults, Scripture reading, and courage. The lesson emphasizes that fear is normal, thoughts are not always facts, and courage comes from trusting God during uncertain situations.

Lesson 4

Handling Emotions,
'Working with Worry'

Table of Contents

  • The Cover Page
  • B/W Cover for coloring in
  • Ice-Breaker
  • Core Truth
  • Discussion
  • An Activity
  • Teacher Hints and Tips
Black-and-white coloring page cover for Handling Emotions: Working With Worry, a Christian preteen lesson about anxiety, prayer, trust, and finding peace in God. The page features preteens discussing worries, praying, reading Scripture, and reflecting on God's promises. Visual elements include a worry list, 1 Peter 5:7, mountain scenery, gaming controllers, and encouraging messages about trusting God and releasing anxiety.
Activity page titled "What Would You Do?" from the Handling Emotions: Working With Worry lesson for preteens. The page features a group of students creating a paper chain labeled with common worries such as tests, friendships, family stress, embarrassment, and the future. The activity teaches students how worries can build up over time and how prayer, trusted relationships, Scripture, rest, and healthy habits can help break unhealthy worry patterns. Matthew 11:28 is included as a key Bible verse.

Lesson 5

Handling Emotions,
'Bringing Emotion to God'

Table of Contents

  • The Cover Page
  • B/W Cover for coloring in
  • Ice-Breaker
  • Core Truth
  • Discussion
  • An Activity
  • Teacher Hints and Tips
Black-and-white coloring cover page for Handling Emotions: Bringing Emotion to God, a Christian Sunday School lesson for preteens. The page features illustrations of a preteen praying, writing prayer requests, discussing emotions with friends, reflecting quietly, and bringing worries to God. Additional elements include encouraging messages such as “God hears you,” an emotions checklist, gaming controllers, and decorative hearts. The design is intended as a printable coloring cover that helps reinforce lessons about prayer, emotional honesty, faith, and trusting God with every feeling.
Teacher guide page for Handling Emotions: Bringing Emotion to God, a Christian Sunday School lesson for preteens. The page provides teaching notes on helping students connect emotional health with spiritual honesty. Topics include anxiety, hurt, frustration, sadness, embarrassment, family stress, emotional safety, healthy discussion practices, and supporting students who struggle with difficult emotions. The page emphasizes that God welcomes honest emotions, encourages emotional maturity, and reminds teachers to create a safe, compassionate environment where preteens can learn to trust God with their feelings.