How to Boost Emotional Health: Forgiveness Activity Sheet for Kids
What You Will Learn:

Understanding forgiveness: Learn what forgiveness is and how it helps us release anger and hurt, making room for healing and personal growth.
Emotional aspect of forgiveness: Discover how to face hurt feelings without letting them control us and release emotions appropriately.
Cognitive aspect of forgiveness: Understand the importance of seeing things from another person’s perspective and realizing that everyone makes mistakes.
Behavioural aspect of forgiveness: Learn how to take positive actions, such as setting boundaries, talking through feelings, or forgiving even without an apology.
4 benefits of forgiveness: Explore the physical, emotional, and relational benefits of forgiveness, such as improved health, reduced stress, and stronger, healthier relationships.
Steps to forgive someone: Gain practical steps for forgiving, including feeling your emotions, understanding the other’s perspective, expressing your feelings, and letting go of anger.
Forgiveness Activity Sheet: A tool for children to help process emotions through drawing, writing letters, positive affirmations, and visualization exercises.
Self-forgiveness: Learn the importance of self-compassion, accepting mistakes, and growing from them without self-blame.
Parenting lesson: Discover how forgiving others and yourself teaches children compassion, assertiveness, and resilience.

“In the end, forgiveness is a gift to yourself.” Maya Angelou
Understanding Forgiveness:
Forgiveness is when we let go of the anger and hurt we feel when someone has done something wrong to us. It's deciding not to hold a grudge anymore. Forgiveness is about dealing with our feelings, understanding why someone hurt us, and trying to move forward without being angry all the time. Here are three aspects to consider about  forgiveness: emotional, cognitive and behavioral 
Emotionally:
Emotionally, forgiveness means facing up to hurt or upset feelings without letting them control us. Instead of keeping all those feelings bottled up inside, forgiveness helps us to let them out appropriately so they don't bother us as much anymore.
Cognitively:
Forgiveness also means trying to see things from the other person's point of view. It's about realizing everyone makes mistakes, and we're all human. Forgiveness isn't about saying what someone did was okay, but it's about being open to the idea that people can change and that there might be reasons behind their actions.
Behaviorally 
Behaviorally, forgiveness involves doing things that help fix the problem to improve them. Trying to fix the problem might mean talking to the person who hurt you, setting boundaries to protect yourself, or forgiving them even if they don't apologize. Forgiveness is about taking control of the situation and responding with kindness instead of anger.
Forgiveness takes time and effort and can be challenging....

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