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Mindfulness Activities



I'm just starting to teach mindfulness this year, mostly as classroom guidance lessons, so this page will be a bit skimpy to start off.  However, I bought the MindUp curriculum from the Hawn Foundation last summer and am loving it so far.  I was able to find both the K-2 book and the grades 3-5 book for a total of $30 from Zulily.com, though I believe the regular prices aren't a whole lot higher than that.  It's a lot of great stuff for a reasonable price.
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Here are some of the things I've found in my on-line search for activities that I can use to supplement the MindUp lessons:

-Mindfulness mantras (e.g. "be the pond") & the pond story (p 13-14)

-Make a mindful breathing wand  

-Take a rainbow mindfulness walk  (excellent for kids who find it difficult to sit still)

-“Human camera” partner activity  

-Trying on different “shapes:” mindfulness of mood and posture (good for also reinforcing learning about nonverbal communication).

-Collection of lessons and resources for teachers

I made a poster of the three parts of the mindful brain, which you can grab for free here in my TpT store.
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And you guys should know me well enough by now to know that I had to make some mindfulness task cards to gather data on how much the kids are retaining.

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