🌋 The Volcano Inside™ Emotional Wellbeing Reading Pack

Help children understand their big feelings through a gentle social story, reading routine and fun rewards.

The Volcano Inside™ Emotional Wellbeing Reading Pack has been thoughtfully created to help children recognise, understand and manage overwhelming emotions in a calm, reassuring and child-friendly way.

Using the simple metaphor of a volcano, children learn that all feelings are normal, their body gives them clues before emotions become overwhelming, and they can choose calming strategies that help their volcano cool down.

Created by Katrina Cameron, an experienced ELSA and children’s wellbeing practitioner, this printable pack is ideal for families, schools, ELSA sessions, nurture groups, counsellors and anyone supporting children’s emotional wellbeing.

🌈 What’s Included

📖 The Volcano Inside™ Social Story

A beautifully illustrated 7-page social story that gently teaches children:

• Why big feelings happen
• How to notice body clues
• What happens when emotions build up
• Simple calming strategies
• That feelings are normal and manageable
• That every day is a fresh start

👨‍👩‍👧 Parent & Carer Guide

Helping adults get the very best from the story with:

• Why social stories work
• When to read the story
• Conversation prompts
• Tips for supporting children during big feelings
• Guidance for creating calm reading routines

🌋 Volcano Reading Record

Encourage children to revisit the story through repetition by:

• Colouring a volcano after each read
• Completing a daily feelings check-in
• Reflecting on what helped them that day
• Tracking their emotional wellbeing journey

🎁 Volcano Reward Tokens

Celebrate consistency with meaningful family rewards such as:

• 🌙 Stay up 15 minutes later
• 🎬 Family Movie Night
• ☕ Hot Chocolate Treat
• 🎲 Family Games Night
• 🍝 You Choose the Evening Meal
• 📚 Extra Story Time
• 🏕️ Build a Den Together
• 🧁 Bake Together
• 🧺 No Chores Pass
• 🎨 Choose a Fun Activity

🏆 Volcano Champion Certificate

A beautiful printable certificate to celebrate your child’s achievement after completing their reading journey.

🌟 Make It Even More Powerful

For an even deeper calming experience, this pack can be used alongside The Volcano Inside Guided Visualisation (available separately).

The guided audio helps children:

• 🌬️ Slow their breathing
• 🌋 Visualise their volcano cooling down
• 💛 Feel safe and relaxed
• 🧠 Strengthen the learning from the social story through repetition
• 🌈 Build lifelong emotional regulation skills

Together, the social story, guided visualisation, reading record, reward tokens and certificate create a complete emotional wellbeing toolkit that children can return to whenever they need it.

❤️ Perfect For

✔ Parents and carers

✔ Primary schools

✔ ELSA interventions

✔ SEN support

✔ Emotional regulation work

✔ Counsellors and therapists

✔ Home education

✔ Nurture groups

✔ Children aged approximately 4–10 years

🌱 Skills This Pack Supports

• Emotional awareness
• Recognising body clues
• Self-regulation
• Mindfulness
• Resilience
• Confidence
• Parent-child connection
• Positive coping strategies
• Emotional vocabulary

🖨️ Instant Digital Download

Simply download, print and use again and again.

Perfect for home, classrooms, wellbeing spaces or one-to-one support sessions.

💜 Created by Positive Vibe Tribe

Positive Vibe Tribe creates creative mindfulness and emotional wellbeing resources that help children understand their feelings in a gentle, engaging and empowering way.

Every resource is designed around our signature approach:

Connect • Create • Visualise • Grow

📦 You’ll Receive

• 🌋 7-page illustrated The Volcano Inside™ Social Story
• 👨‍👩‍👧 Parent & Carer Guide
• 📖 Volcano Reading Record
• 🎁 Reward Token Sheet
• 🏆 Volcano Champion Certificate

Instant digital PDF download.

No physical product will be posted.

🌋 A Gentle Reminder

Big feelings don’t make children “naughty” or “difficult.” They are simply messages from the brain and body asking for support.

The Volcano Inside™ helps children understand those messages, recognise their own warning signs, and discover that they have the power to help their volcano cool down—one small step at a time.

Because every child deserves to know that feelings are okay… and that they are never alone. 💜