🌿 Following What Matters: The Values Expanded Pack

A companion guide for helping children discover what matters most—and practice living those values one gentle choice at a time.

Children experience many different feelings each day. Some feel exciting. Others feel uncomfortable.

While feelings naturally change, values can continue guiding us.

This gentle companion resource helps children notice the kind of person they want to become through small everyday choices rooted in kindness, courage, curiosity, honesty, patience, and more. Through stories, creative activities, reflection, and family conversations, children learn that values aren't about being perfect—they're about choosing what matters, again and again.

Designed using principles from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), this printable resource gives families practical ways to help children connect their actions with what matters most.

Inside You'll Find

🌿 Understanding Values

Simple child-friendly explanations that help children understand:

• What values are

• How values differ from feelings and goals

• Why values can guide us through difficult moments

💛 Twelve Printable Values Cards

Explore twelve important values including:

• Respect

• Teamwork

• Responsibility

• Curiosity

• Perseverance

• Gratitude

• Flexibility

• Fairness

• Self-Kindness

• Creativity

• Mindfulness

• Friendship

Each card includes:

• What the value looks like

• When it may feel difficult

• A simple "Try Saying..." practice

📖 Acceptance Acres Stories

Three original stories featuring Finn, Delaney, Vivian, Micah, and friends that help children see values practiced in everyday life—not perfectly, but gently and consistently.

🎨 Creative Values Activities

Hands-on printable activities including:

• The Values Trail Map

• My Values Lantern

• Small Choices, Big Heart

• The "Choose Again" Stone

Designed to help children practice values through play, creativity, and reflection.

🌸 Family Reflection Pages

Gentle questions for children and caregivers that encourage conversations about:

• What mattered this week

• Returning after difficult moments

• Growing through small everyday choices

📅 Printable Practice Tools

Includes:

• Weekly Values Tracker

• Parent coaching page

• Final reflection

•  Bonus coloring page

• NEW Acceptance Acres™ exploration page

Perfect For

✔ Parents

✔ Therapists

✔ School counselors

✔ Teachers

✔ Homeschool families

✔ Calm corners

✔ Bedtime conversations

✔ SEL lessons

Digital Download

✔ Printable PDF

✔ 24 pages

Who Is It For:

✔ Ages 4–10

Continue Growing Together

This Expanded Pack is one stop along your family's journey through Acceptance Acres™.

Meet every forest friend, discover additional free activities, explore children's stories, and find companion resources that help children continue building emotional flexibility, one gentle step at a time.