The Coping with Feelings Rocket Tracker is a playful digital download designed to empower children by making their emotional patterns visible and manageable over an entire month.
 
Using a simple colour key, your child fills in one rocket ship each day, logging the dominant feeling and the coping skill they used (or need to use). This activity moves beyond one-off interventions and encourages long-term reflection, helping children to:
 
Spot Weekly Patterns: See if they feel most anxious on Mondays or most happy on Fridays.
Gauge Strategy Effectiveness: Learn which coping skills (the "doodles") they rely on and which ones they might need to use more often.
Build Ownership: By actively tracking their feelings, children take ownership of their emotional self-regulation.
 
This colourful tracker is an essential tool for continued CBT-based learning, transforming abstract feelings into clear, actionable data.
 
Why It Works
Pattern Recognition: Tracking data over 31 days helps children and parents identify triggers, cyclical moods, and behavioural trends.
Self-Monitoring: Encourages daily reflection on emotional state and behavioural choices (the coping skill).
Visual Engagement: The rocket metaphor and colour key make emotional tracking feel like a fun game, not a chore.
Reinforces Skills: The daily logging reinforces the importance of using positive coping strategies every single day.
 
Benefits for Children
Increase awareness of emotional cycles and patterns throughout the month.
Identify the most effective coping skills for different emotions.
Strengthen accountability for daily emotional self-regulation.
Improve communication by sharing their monthly tracker with a trusted adult.
Build resilience through consistent self-monitoring.
 
What’s Included (A4 Digital Download)
Coping with Feelings Rocket Tracker (PDF): A4, printable, illustrated monthly tracker.
 
Note: This worksheet is designed to be a supplementary tool for emotional literacy and is not a substitute for professional therapeutic assessment or treatment.