Happy Squares™- Teaching Kids Regulation Skills

The 5-Minute Reset for Kids with Big Energy & Big Feelings

Happy Squares is a playful printable sensory-movement game that helps kids regulate their energy, bodies, and emotions. Low prep & less demand for adults and kids! Regulation made simple!

Using color-coded sensory activity cards, kids learn to meet their bodies where they are, organize their energy, and gently settle—through play, not pressure.

Created by a pediatric occupational therapist and illustrator, this game helps children build real self-regulation skills while having fun tossing, moving, and connecting.

🧠 How Happy Squares Works

    🔴 Red row- Meet the energy to support sensory seeking and big emotions

    🟡 Yellow row- Organize the brain to begin to lower arousal level and increase focus

    🟢 Green row- Calm and ground the brain to feel safe, settled, and regulated

    🔵 Blue row- Connection and safety, to help activate parasympathetic nervous system (calm centers in the brain)

Why Happy Squares Works

Happy Squares helps children:

    •    Recognize how their body feels at different energy levels

    •    Practice choosing movements that change how their body feels

    •    Build strong brain-body connections through play

    •    Experience regulation as something they do, not something demanded of them

Over time, children naturally learn what their bodies need to shift their arousal levels—building true self-regulation skills.

What’s Included:

    •    16 Printable Happy Squares™ sensory activity cards (color-coded red, yellow, green, and blue squares)   

 •    Instructions sheet for setup and play

  •    OT problem-solving tips to adapt to different situations or moments of dysregulation

•    16 different "OT-designed colored sequences" to use in different moments (ex: before school, after school, transitions)

Disclaimers

Happy Squares activities are created by a pediatric occupational therapist to promote movement, body awareness, and regulation through play. These activities are for educational and recreational purposes only and are not intended to replace medical or therapeutic care. Always supervise children and adapt activities to your child’s abilities and comfort level.

Illustration and artwork copyright ©️ 2026 Taylor Peek. All rights reserved. No part of this game may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without written permission from the creators. For permissions, contact Courtney English or Taylor Peek.

This product is delivered as a digital download. All sales are final and non-refundable.