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There is a saying that laughter is the best medicine and studies have shown that sharing a laugh can reenergise the body, alleviate stress, help with positive thinking, sleep, help people to feel less worried and make everyone feel brighter.
Humour comes within the Positive Emotions arm of our PosEd model and is a great tool to use to improve how you are feeling.
You could try…..
- Two words – tickle fight!
- Sing a nursery rhyme, and mess up the words or change the story to include funny words.
- Play ‘Red light/Green light’, but substitute red light for a funny word.
- See who can make the best funny face.
- Tell jokes.
- Pretend you are sleeping (cue exaggerated snores) then wake up startled and give people a fright.
- Insist that under no circumstances can you laugh or smile (reverse psychology can work a treat!)
The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors read and written by Drew Daywalt
Walter the Farting Dog
Share something that has made you laugh! It could be a book or something else that you have read, something you have watched on TV or something that someone else has done 🙂
