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.

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.

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.