This document provides a list of 24 safe and fun ways for people to express and release anger either alone or with others. Some of the suggested activities include ripping up magazines and throwing paper balls, stomping and making loud noises, punching pillows, throwing rocks in water, popping bubbles, dancing angrily, counting loudly, yelling karate moves, singing angry songs loudly, kicking pillows, blowing into and popping paper bags, drawing angry pictures, writing and tearing up angry letters, playing angry drums, cleaning, and talking to someone.

1. SAFE AND FUN WAYS TO GET YOUR ANGER OUT
(Alone or together)
• Rip up old newspapers or magazines and throw them around.
• Make balls of the torn paper and throw them into a trashcan and see how many “baskets”
you can make.
• Stomp around and talk in loud gibberish
• Punch a beanbag chair, mattress, or a pillow filled with old clothes or paper.
• Go to the beach and throw stones in the water (where no one is swimming)
• Pop the plastic packing materials (“bubbles”).
• Do an angry dance.
• Count to 10 loudly and slowly.
• Yell a karate yell and jump in the air.
• Create an angry rap or jazz song and sing it as loud as you can.
• Kick pillows piled up against the wall.
• Blow into a paper bag and pop it.
• Shout your anger into a tape recorder, play it back and hear your angry voice.
• Pound clay as much as you want and then create something when you feel better.
• Make a “MAD” face in the mirror or find a friend to make “MAD” faces with you
• Draw a picture of what or who is making you mad and stomp on it.
• Write an angry letter, and tear it up into little pieces.
• Get a drum or tin can and play an angry beat
• Draw pictures of different sizes of what makes you angry – make the biggest picture the
one that makes you the angriest.
• Clean your room or the kitchen or pull weeds
• Get a swim noodle, cut it in half and use it to pound on something.
• Kick a soccer ball
• Take a bucket of water and a big brush and “paint” the trees.
• Find someone to talk to.
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