DIY Stuff for your anxiety kit at school (video)
We’ve got more ideas on how to handle your anxiety at school, and all but one are DIY.
I’m Deborah Gray.
Oh hi, I’m Lawrence Gager.
My son. And so we’re here to talk about some DIY stress – anti-stress, anti-anxiety –
Things.
That you can make, to have at school. And these are all pretty unobtrusive and quiet so you shouldn’t have any problems with them.
One that is not DIY but that is actually bought that we found is called Tangle and can you open that, honey?
As you were saying.
Anyway, can you open it? Because you took mine apart. Okay.
Lies.
I had one but he took it apart. It’s now in pieces all over the living room, so I have to use this one. Anyway, while he’s doing that… Okay.
That.
Okay. So it – it’s, it’s kind of cool just to play with. It does come, it does come in sections and usually doesn’t come apart like that. But so, it has bumpy sections.
That’s what I do with it, I just – Ow, I hurt my hand on the chair. And dropped it. Ow. I’ve given up.
Anyway, so it’s, it’s pretty quiet –
Ow.
I mean, if you, if you, if you know, it clacks a little, but –
Yeah, if you’re doing, you know, this in the middle of class.
Well, yeah. So –
Oh wait it’s not, hold –
So –
It’s usually louder.
Potentially –
Shh, shhh, shhh.
Poten –
If you’re doing that all class, then yeah.
Potentially, yeah, potentially it can make noise. But it can be very quiet and it’s got bumpy parts and smooth parts and so you can just use the sensations to help you, you know – to bring you back from, you know, from an impending anxiety attack. Just something to focus on. You can press on the bumpy parts and – anyway, so you probably know, if you have anxiety.
So then, let’s see. Another thing that a lot of people like to do when they are having an anxiety attack is write in a journal, which is a nice quiet thing to do at school. So, I thought that we’d take this and not only have it be a journal, but also have it be squishy things that you can push on when you’re, you know, feeling anxious. And again, the sensory part is, is what helps, you know, bring you back from an anxiety attack and ground you. And I added a little washi tape on the top and bottom just to keep it a little –
Interesting?
Interesting, so – yeah.
Why is there Japanese lettering?
I don’t know. I just –
Weaboos.
Another thing that – oh, anyway, so this – I forgot to say, forgot to say this – so anyway, this is pretty easy. I just ordered these – I ordered a bag of these from Amazon and there are a bunch of places. I’ll put the links down below and you just use a glue gun and glue them on. That’s the best, because the glue gun stuff tends to stay on really well, and if you do any DIY you probably have one anyway.
So, something that I really like for calming me down is very expensive. It’s called Origins – it’s called Origins Peace of Mind. This was, like, almost $20.
Jesus Christ.
Okay, so that’s really expensive, but I used to have a store where I made soaps and stuff and so I know how to make this pretty easily. There’s – you know, there are a lot of, a lot of different videos that will show you how to do this that I’ll link to. Basically, what you can do is, you’re making lip balm. So then you have it like either in a little pot – oh my gosh, my hands aren’t working.
Absolute genius.
Stop. I – I have multiple sclerosis. My hands don’t work. So then you have it in a little pot and since you know, you’re just sniffing it, then it can last a long time. So – or you can put it in a tube. Either one. I don’t have – this one I actually didn’t fill yet, but –
Why did you – whatever.
Because I didn’t – I can’t find my – the ones I made that were tubes – Anyway, I did a bunch of stuff for a lot of people for Christmas so I still have some left over
This one company that I bought – I used a lot called Sweet Cakes, I really like them for their, their fragrance oil mixes and their flavor oil mixes and – oh, here it is. They actually have a Peace of Mind Origins “type” flavor oil. Now, so, it’s, it’s supposed to be for lip balm. The only difference, really, between fragrance and flavor is – in the oils – is sweetener.
Edible.
Yeah. Well, no. They’re both edible, actually. But, anyway.
It’s ya boy.
This –
Ecchh.
Anyway, so – and you can buy these in pretty small quantities and I love these guys. They also make like a rose flavor oil like Chanel does with their lipstick.
Where’s that one that’s super – Buttercream.
Yeah. that’s actually from Majestic Mountain Sage, which is another one, so I’m putting –
Ecchh.
So I’m going to link to the places for the supplies for making the – let’s say fragrance balm. Fragrance is another sensory thing that can bring you back, especially if it’s one that’s –
Is this seaweed?
Yes – that’s got a lot of mint in it. A lot of people –
Is this oatmeal?
– feel that really helps – Yes – that really helps, mint, either to smell it or to have like, mint in your mouth.
Is this a cicada?
No it’s a bee, honey. It’s a honey bee. Okay, so another thing that –
No, you ruined the design I made.
Okay. Another thing that I made is – well, basically, I covered a regular three subject notebook, you know, three-hole punch notebook, uh, spiral, with what’s called either scaly or mermaid fabric. So what it is, is this fabric has – normally, with sequins, they have just like, a really bland color underneath. These have –
Let me show it off.
On one side it’s, it’s holographic. Make sure you’re over here. It’s holographic and the other side is kind of a pale green, pink color. So this is something that, that is really good to distract yourself with if you’re, if you’re having trouble with anxiety. Just to distract yourself, you know, you can play and make some some patterns and –
One of my friends has a backpack made of the same kind of stuff.
Oh, really? Yeah.
And I would – every time I see her, I have to like, take her backpack and like, all right, give me a minute, and I just play around with it.
Now, it’s really cool. The only thing I would say is, if you’re one of those people who – it will drive you absolutely crazy to have a sequin missing on this, or you know, to have them going – some of them going every which way, it might not be really good, because that’ll –
Yeah, don’t get it.
– that’ll probably begin to drive you nuts. But if not, it’s, it’s a really good easy thing, about half a yard of this at Joann’s fabrics, and I just used a glue gun. And what I would do that I didn’t do last time –
Washi tape also.
It – right. But what I would do that I didn’t do last time, is I would glue the middle. I just glued around the edges and I would glue the – definitely glue the middle, because of – the fabric moves otherwise.
Tutorial.
I’ll link to the tutorial of someone else who did this. I think there was someone else who did this. Anyway, something similar. And then, just because the edges were kind of nasty, I put some washi tape on here too. With unicorns. Which seemed kind of appropriate because this is unicorn colors. Anyway, then, so we have the journal, the notebook, the fragrance balm and the last thing we have then, is a stress ball. So – oh, okay. So that was – this was my first attempt. And what I did is I followed –
She put sequins in and it tore everything.
Well, I put glitter in because Maqaroon had a really good tutorial on how to do this and she put glitter in, and I thought that was a great idea. The only problem is that after I was playing with this for a few minutes, I noticed that, that –
The glitter shredded –
And I wasn’t sure if it was the glitter, but that the balls inside were – these – were getting all shredded.
The Marvel beads.
Yeah.
Knock-off Orbeez.
Anyway I’ll have a link to the tutorial, because it was a good tutorial. I just wouldn’t put the glitter in. And, um, they’re – you can get these on Amazon – you might be able to get them in like Joanne’s or Michael’s or Hobby Lobby but just, um, it’s easier just to get on Amazon. And you only use a teaspoon, so you like literally could go in with a friend or two and – or you could make like fifty stress balls. You just need the beads, balloons and water and that’s pretty much it. So really all you’re doing is you soak the beads in water, preferably overnight, and they they get like this. Um, that’s why we don’t want to use the glitter. Um, and – seriously. Yeah, no glitter. Because these had really sharp edges there are – actually, these were big pieces of glitter that I put in. So with fine glitter –
Genius.
You would probably be fine, except you probably wouldn’t see it then. Although you could probably give it a shot. Anyway, so, so, anyway they look like this when they come out, or you, you put it – you do it in the bottle. And you just put them in the balloon, and see?
This was, uh…
So, see? It’s really pretty cool. It’s cheap, it’s – how about just like, stop squeezing it. That might make sense. Stop, stop. Oh my God. You’re gonna have to clean that up, you know. I’m not cleaning that.
Dammit.
Because I have to work tomorrow and you have the day off. So guess what? You’re cleaning it up.
You have forsaken me, Mother.
So it’s, it’s, it’s pretty unobtrusive. I mean, especially if you make it small like this. You can just hold it in your hand. Now granted, these, these will pop after a while, but you can make a bunch of them at once and – Stop! Stop. My God. Stop.
I didn’t even realize how many…oh.
And they’re all broken. Yeah, good luck. Good luck cleaning it up. Have fun. Anyway. So, uh, this is, this is pretty cool. It actually is one of those things that you, that you just kind of, it looks really cool and it’s –
Oh!
I –
No, let me do this. Let me do this. She tried to make slime.
I know what went wrong. I know what happens – I do know what happened. It’s pretty. It’s really pretty.
But it’s brittle.
Yes. It’s, it’s – I know exactly what happened. Um, so anyway, this is something that I’m gonna be working on, is – I’m trying all the recipes for DIY slime and putty and needless to say, they are not nec –
Oh, no!
– necessarily easy. So, I’m gonna, I’m gonna try to test them and uh, and find some that are pretty easy to make –
Oh, my God.
– preferably with stuff that it’s around the house but um, it, it, may be some stuff that you have, that you have to, uh –
Oh, no!
Oh, my God, seriously. This is like, this is all yours to clean up, okay? Seriously. I have – I have to get ready for work tomorrow. Anyway, so I hope this has been helpful and I’m gonna leave all the details below. All the links to all the video tutorials. And, um, some of them are affiliate links. So if you – in Amazon – so if you use them, we might get a percentage of the sale, which would be great because we need –
Wow, we’re going to get some money?
Well, because, because it will help pay for the the supplies. Because we are gonna be –
And a new, and a vacuum.
Cause – we have a vacuum. Because we are going to be doing also a depression kit for school, stuff to help you feel better its goal. Because most of the ones I’ve seen are huge and like, your stuffed animal and stuff, so we’re gonna find stuff that you can, um, that you can bring to school with you. Or if you’re older, you know, if you’re working, have something, um…that’s not what I meant by cleaning up. Anyway –
Relax.
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