Help older students extend their learning with this complementary bundle for tweens and teens, designed by Leah Kuypers, MA Ed., OT, and Elizabeth Sautter, MA, CCC-SLP. The Tools to Try Cards for Tweens & Teens is a multisensory strategy deck that encourages exploration, choice-making, and practice of over 50 regulation tools across real-life settings. The 2-sided cards are divided into six easy-to-understand categories—Focus, Calm, Think, Move, Breathe, and Connect—offering students practical ways to build self-regulation skills.
The five updated posters act as daily visual reminders to recognize feelings, identify the Zone, select a strategy, and use it. They are designed to reinforce and extend lessons from The Zones of Regulation® Digital Curriculum and Getting into The Zones of Regulation®. Posters include: the Zones Check-In dry-erase poster (18” x 24”), the Zones of Regulation Pathway poster (24” x 18”), the updated Zones of Regulation dry-erase poster (24” x 18”), the updated Zones STOP, OPT and GO dry-erase poster (18” x 24”), and the updated Zones Triggers & Sparks dry-erase poster (24” x 18”). Each provides fresh visuals and interactive opportunities for students to reflect on their Zones and apply strategies in the moment.
This expanded kit adds tactile and creative options to support calming, focus, and energy release. The Toss & Talk Emotion Ball encourages reflective verbal check-ins and group discussion in classrooms or therapy sessions. The Pop Spinner and Mega Spinner are handheld fidgets that provide calming, repetitive motion to help students release excess energy. The Flip & Fold Cube offers a compact, tactile activity that supports focus and stress relief through continuous folding and unfolding. The Positive Velvet Art supplies a calming, creative outlet for self-expression and relaxation.
Together, these resources create a robust, multisensory approach that helps tweens and teens practice coping strategies, improve emotional literacy, and build confidence managing their Zones in school, counseling, or at home.