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12 Bite-Sized Mindfulness Activities For Kids
Explore 12 bite-sized mindfulness activities and help children develop resilience and mindfulness.
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Below you will find tools to make implementing mindfulness practice with children more engaging and fun, whether you are a therapist, an educator, or a parent.
Breathing Games: Make Calming Breathing Fun
Help children improve concentration and self-regulate with our engaging breathing games. Create a positive classroom environment or use as an individual intervention.
Breathing Stories: Teach Calming Breathing To Young Children
Learning slow-paced, calming breathing is a snap with these cute breathing stories for younger children.
Make mindful breathing practice playful for kids with this mini-course & toolkit with 25 fun mindful breathing activities.
Integrate gratitude, loving-kindness, appreciative joy and mindful breathing practice to your day – at home or at school.
Give children lasting life skills to de-stress, self-regulate and nurture empathy, kindness, and joy. Discover 150+ mindfulness activities for kids ages 3-12+.
Enjoy a fun engaging story and give children lasting life skills to de-stress, calm down, improve focusing skills and positive thinking.
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Mindfulness Games for Kids – Musical Thumbs Up Game
I think you should have fun while learning mindfulness skills. When my son was five years old, we invented a fun mindfulness game in which we "meditated" to Smooth Criminal, Beat It, and Billie Jean AND we had a great time. As my son, Anton, focused intently for 15...
Mindfulness Games for Kids – Feeling The Music
Do you want to make mindfulness practice and learning about emotions both interesting and fun? With this musical mindfulness game, you can! This fun mindfulness activity for kids uses music to assist children in developing fundamental mindfulness skills. The mindful...
Mindfulness For Kids – Breathing Buddies Game
Breathing Buddies also know as Teddy Bear Belly Breathing is one of my favorite mindful breathing exercises for kids. Belly breathing calms down the nervous system and is easy to do. Add a favorite stuffed toy and younger kids will get it almost instantly and find it...
Mindfulness Games For Kids—Mindful Flamingos
We know how important it is to get kids moving and playing mindful movement games is a great way to do so. The key is to make movement and mindfulness exercises enjoyable and age appropriate. You really don’t have to sit still like a pretzel to practice mindfulness...
Mindfulness Games For Kids – Rainbow Walk
Recently, I was asked how to introduce mindfulness to a child who is uninterested in meditation. Many children associate mindfulness with sitting meditation, but it is so much more. Sitting practice is only one method for experiencing and honing mindfulness skills....
Fun Mindfulness Game For Children—Mindful Marco Polo
Playing fun games can help you learn mindfulness and executive function skills. Here's one fun mindfulness game for children of all ages to play indoors or outside. We all enjoy playing Marco Polo, but did you know that the game can also provide numerous benefits as...
Fun Mindfulness Games For Kids—The Mindful Safari
Here's a fun mindfulness game for kids of all ages to play outside. Younger children will typically find this most exciting, but even adults will enjoy it once they get going. Earthworms inspired me to play and write about this game! No, I'm not going cuckoo... :-) We...
