Feelings check-in
Today I Feel…
Name a feeling, notice what may have caused it, and choose a supportive next step.
The Friendly Ferns Resource Hub
Practical tools for more understanding—and fewer barriers.
Start small, choose what fits, and use these resources to create spaces where every person can participate with dignity.
Welcome to Fern Fort
A place to learn, grow, and find what helps.
Friendly Ferns activities turn big ideas—feelings, support, kindness, goals, and belonging—into manageable conversations families can explore together.
Free first-release activities
Start with what your child needs today.
These private, no-login activities can be completed on screen, talked through together, or printed. Choose one—there is no need to do everything at once.
Feelings check-in
Today I Feel…
A gentle way for children to identify a feeling, describe what happened, and choose the kind of support that might help.
Personal support plan
My Calm Plan
Children identify early signs of overwhelm, helpful tools, trusted people, and a safe next step before a difficult moment arrives.
Kindness activity
Kindness Starts With Me
A practical activity for noticing kind choices, using caring words, including others, and reflecting on how kindness feels.
Challenge planner
I Can Do Hard Things
A strengths-based planner that helps children name a challenge, break it into smaller steps, ask for support, and celebrate effort.
Goal planner
My Goals, My Way
A flexible goal-setting activity that honors different starting points, different supports, and different paths to success.
Reflection activity
Story Reflection Journal
Children connect a Friendly Ferns story—or their own day—to feelings, support, learning, kindness, and personal strengths.
Privacy note: answers entered into these activities are not saved, sent, or shared by XTERMIGATOR Kids.
Printable worksheets
Open, print, and use what fits.
These full-page worksheets can be viewed online, printed, or saved for later. Children may write, draw, point, or complete them with a trusted adult.
Calming tools
My Calm Plan
Identify warning signs, calming tools, safe people, and a plan for handling big feelings.
Kindness
Kindness Starts With Me
Explore kind words and actions, practice real-life scenarios, and make a kindness promise.
Confidence
I Can Do Hard Things
Break challenges into small steps, ask for help, learn from mistakes, and celebrate progress.
Goal setting
My Goals, My Way
Choose a meaningful goal, plan manageable steps, name support people, and celebrate wins.
Reflection
Story Reflection Journal
Connect a story—or the day—to feelings, challenges, support, kindness, and personal growth.
Self-care
Take Care of Me
Build a self-care plan, choose calming strategies, identify support, and name personal strengths.
Teamwork
Teamwork Makes the Dream Work
Read a team adventure, recognize different strengths, and create promises for working together.
Belonging
We’re All Different
Celebrate different strengths and supports while making a personal promise to include others.
Problem solving
Problem Solved
Put helpful steps in order, use a feelings thermometer, and build a personal support toolkit.
A supportive starting point: These educational activities are designed to encourage conversation and reflection. They do not replace individualized medical, mental-health, educational, or crisis support.
Optional faith collection
Faith & Church Resources
Church schedules, belonging activities, inclusion conversations, and service prompts will live in their own clearly labeled collection so every family can intentionally choose what fits.
Family & educator tools
Guided support for accommodation conversations.
These Inclusive Pathways Collaborative tools are designed for families, older students, educators, and support teams. They open in a separate website and do not require a XTERMIGATOR Kids account.
Accommodations Advocacy Assistant
A guided assistant that helps students and families understand accommodation options, prepare requests, and advocate for appropriate supports.
Best used with a trusted adult. This tool provides educational guidance and does not replace school, medical, or legal advice.
Open the Advocacy AssistantStarting the Conversation: A Faculty Toolkit
A practical toolkit for proactively checking in with students about disability accommodations and supports—before a formal request is made.
Designed for educational settings. Use it to support respectful, student-centered conversations.
Open the Faculty ToolkitStress & Support Navigator
A guided tool for caregivers, families, educators, and individuals working through daily overwhelm, support planning, care coordination, and resource navigation.
Use what fits your situation. This educational planning tool does not replace medical, mental-health, legal, or crisis support.
Open the Support NavigatorBehavior Support Assistant
A structured planning tool for educators, caregivers, and IEP/504 teams using frameworks including PBIS, MTSS, UDL, and IDEA.
Start with the person, not the behavior. Plans should remain strengths-based, dignity-centered, individualized, and reviewed by the appropriate support team.
Open the Support AssistantProvided through Inclusive Pathways Collaborative resource collections. View the IPC app directory or explore the Digital Tools Hub.
Our resource promise
Accessible by design, respectful in practice.
ClearPlain language and predictable layouts reduce unnecessary cognitive load.
FlexibleResources can be used digitally, printed, read aloud, or adapted to individual needs.
Strengths-basedChallenges are acknowledged without defining a person by a diagnosis.
ActionableEvery resource is intended to support a useful conversation or practical next step.
Need something more specific?
We can help shape a resource for your community.
Tell us about your audience, setting, accessibility priorities, and the conversation you want to make possible.