Mindfulness: EYFS / Early Years Activities, Displays and Ideas
😌 Discover a world of calm and focus with our 'Mindfulness' resources! This page offers a brief overview of what mindfulness is, along with core resource packs to help you introduce this vital concept in your early years setting. You'll find a wealth of activities grouped by specific themes, including resources for identifying feelings, enhancing sensory awareness (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch plus interoception, proprioception and vestibular sensory systems), and fostering the ability to focus on a single thought/input/task. Spark moments of stillness with our engaging Mindfulness Activity Prompt Poster and accompanying Activity Cards. Encourage outdoor exploration and calm observation with Mindfulness Walks Posters and Mindfulness Walk Cards. Plus, set a peaceful tone in your space with our inviting Mindfulness Banners. Find everything you need to cultivate present moment awareness and emotional well-being! 🧘♀️
Please scroll down to browse our Mindfulness activity ideas, printable educational materials, planning inspiration, display resources, classroom & setting management tools and much more! If you’re looking for Preschool, Nursery, Childminder, Reception, SEND or Home Education resources for 0-7 year olds, you’ve come to the right place! Our interactive and engaging EYFS and KS1 learning resources are lovingly made (including original hand drawn images) by early years teaching and learning experts; a husband and wife team. We hope it helps! 😊
Sections on this page:
Free Sample Resources
What is ‘Mindfulness’?
Core overarching ‘Mindfulness’ resource packs
Key ‘Mindfulness’ resources and activities grouped by a specific theme:
Identifying Feelings
Sensory awareness (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch)
Please note that a deeper awareness calls for the understanding of interoception, proprioception and vestibular sensory systems.
Focus on a single thought/input/task
Related pages/topics/themes
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Free ‘Mindfulness’ Printables | Early Years
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These checklists are to promote mindfulness and awareness of surroundings when in a beach setting. This activity is intended to help children engage their senses to better notice and appreciate the environment around them.
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Once laminated these Beach Shell Multimats are ideal to be used as reusable playdough or loose part mats. Alternatively, use them in conjunction with whiteboard pens. Without lamination these sheets may also be used with mark making tools or art and craft materials.
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These cards can be laminated for repeated use. Each of the six beach habitat creatures has a dotted line card and a card with a blank space.
Use the laminated cards with whiteboard pens or alternatively use the first card as stimulus e.g. using your finger or stick on the beach in the sand or at home in your sand tray.
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Use these fine motor butterfly sheets once for pencil control practise or laminate and encourage children to take it in turns with whiteboard pens to practise making the different shapes.
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These prompt cards are to promote mindfulness and awareness of surroundings when in a woodland setting.
This activity is intended to help children engage their senses to better notice and appreciate the environment around them.
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Pack of 9 colouring sheets with a ‘Fairies’ theme. Great for mindfulness practise!
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Pack of 2 elephant colouring sheets. Great for mindfulness practise!
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Pack of 2 lion colouring sheets. Great for mindfulness practise!
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Pack of 2 tiger colouring sheets. Great for mindfulness practise!
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Set of 12 A4 PE Action Colouring Sheets.
Each colouring sheet depicts a PE action which can be practised with young children. Have fun!
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9 colouring pages which outline the key elements of the traditional tale.
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Pack of ‘Planets’ colouring pages. The last two sheets show the sizes of the planets to scale in relation to the earth!
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Mega pack of Animal colouring pictures…49 sheets of individual animals to colour including their names.
Great for fine motor, observational skills, colour choice and becoming aware that text has meaning.
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Our Zoo Animals colouring sheets pack includes each animal with its name and footprint. Animals included are Chimpanzee, Zebra, Tiger, Poison Dart Frog, Lion, Meerkat, Rhinoceros, Wolf, Sea Lion, Komodo Dragon, Giraffe, Flamingo, Elephant and Penguin.
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Welsh Dragon Multimat - These differentiated multimats can be coloured or used in conjunction with art and craft cut and stick materials. If laminated they may be used for playdough or loose parts design work.
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St Patrick’s Day Shamrock themed Multimats - These multimats can be coloured or used in conjunction with art and craft cut and stick materials. If laminated they may be used for playdough or loose parts design work.
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PLAYDOUGH/LOOSE PARTS/ART & CRAFTS/PENCIL
Once laminated this ‘Design Your Own Maracas Multimat’ is ideal to be used as a reusable playdough or loose parts mat. Alternatively, use in conjunction with whiteboard pens. Without lamination the sheet could also be used with mark making tools or art and craft cut and stick materials.
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Please note that both Editable (docx file) and non-editable (pdf file) versions are available for all ‘Mindfulness’ resources. (Editable files require Microsoft Word to work at optimum level and Non-Editable files require a pdf viewer.)
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What is mindfulness?
Mindfulness practices aim to channel and focus the attention to a single task, thought or feeling. What could be described as the opposite of multi-tasking; training ourselves to sometimes take a step back, focus on one feeling/sense, thought or task, can have huge benefits. Meaningful mindfulness practices encourage heightened awareness, purposeful and sustained focus, compassion and the ability to become and maintain a state of calm. Mindfulness can help with anxiety and stress and aid connection with our surroundings, senses and emotions.
Mindfulness for young children is about allowing and encouraging them to pay attention to what is happening in the present moment; pausing to notice what is happening. It’s about focusing on a single thought, sensory input (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch) or emotion, becoming aware of it and accepting it. Mindfulness practice in the early years can help to develop self awareness and empathy and therefore gratitude and kindness.
In addition, mindfulness in the early years (and at any age) can help children (and adults) to recognise when they need to calm down and give them techniques to achieve this. If children are practicing mindfulness regularly, they are more likely to be able to call on techniques that work for them when they are feeling anxious, stressed, upset, agitated or angry.
Examples of a wide range of mindfulness activities can be found in the following packs:
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On this poster are ideas for mindfulness activities that could be undertaken 1:1 with a child or in a small group.
The aim is for the child to focus on one thing at a time and remain very much in the present moment - an important life skill.
This poster is designed as primarily a choosing prompt…perhaps a reminder of activities that have previously been undertaken. For more detailed descriptions for each activity, please see our ‘Mindfulness - Activity Cards’ pack.
We hope this helps!
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These activity cards contain ideas to promote mindfulness and awareness of surroundings.
The activities are intended to give the children time and space to focus on one thing at a time, remaining in the present moment.
If you would like a condensed version of these activity cards to go alongside them, please refer to our ‘Mindfulness - Activity Prompt Poster’.
We hope this helps!
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Key ‘Mindfulness’ resources and activities grouped by a specific theme:
Identifying Feelings
In addition to being an important part of mindfulness, identifying feelings/emotions is a crucial part of the early years experience.
Mindfulness encourages us to take time to consider how we are feeling at a given moment and consider appropriate actions/reactions, consider how we can accept more negative emotions and move on from them.
Below is a small selection of our ‘Emotions and Feelings’ resources. For more, please visit our ‘Emotions and Feelings’ page.
Here we have highlighted just a few of our key emotion resources/activities which when used appropriately promote healthy mindfulness practice within early years. Premium members can click on the following resource images for a description of their use and download options.
This display/activity is intended to help the child/children identify their emotions and the experiences that trigger those emotions.
At the start of the day, one emotion is to be highlighted and discussed with the children. The children are then encouraged to tell someone if they think they experience that emotion during the day. The aim is for the children to become more introspective of their emotions, and more perceptive of the emotions of others.
As a group activity the children have the chance to learn from their peer’s experiences as well as their own.
Pack includes:
• Changeable display banner with space for different ‘Emotion of the day’ cards.
• Emotion of the day display cards for happy, sad, excited, worried, angry, confused, scared, surprised.
• Small A6 emotion cards to be placed around the setting as a reminder of the ‘Emotion of the day’.
Keywords: picture/visual communication aids, feeling, feelings, emotions, emotion/emotional regulation/dysregulation/self-regulation, mindfulness
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Set of 12 A5 ‘I am feeling’ cards. Useful for any individuals who need support in identifying and expressing their feelings.
Feelings include: happy, confused, excited, sad, scared, worried, love, sleepy, fine, angry, bored and frustrated.
Keywords: picture/visual communication aids, feeling, feelings, emotions, emotion/emotional regulation/dysregulation/self-regulation, autism, autistic, non verbal, non-verbal, mental health, wellness, mindfulness
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We created this ‘Why is Teddy sad?’ pack in order for you to be able to explore with children how sometimes something may feel wrong inside when there are no obvious cuts, bruises, etc.
As well as investigating the feeling of ‘sadness’ by talking about what might cause us to feel sad and what it actually feels like, this pack could also be a doorway to talking about mental health. It also aids in the mindfulness practice of recognising emotions.
Keywords: feeling, feelings, emotions, emotion/emotional regulation/dysregulation/self-regulation, autism, autistic, mental health, wellness, colouring page/pages/sheet/sheets, empathy, role play, role-play, mindfulness
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We created this ‘Why is Teddy happy?’ pack in conjunction with our ‘Why is Teddy sad?’ pack in order for you to be able to explore emotions, empathy and mental health with children.
As well as investigating the feeling of ‘happiness’ by talking about what might cause us to feel happy and what it actually feels like, this pack could also be a doorway to talking about mental health. In addition, it aids in the mindfulness practice of recognising emotions.
Keywords: feeling, feelings, emotions, emotion/emotional regulation/dysregulation/self-regulation, autism, autistic, mental health, wellness, colouring page/pages/sheet/sheets, empathy, role play, role-play, mindfulness
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This display is intended to be an interactive self-registration display that can evolve throughout the day. The children can find and add their names to the emoji that expresses how they are feeling at the start of the day and then they are encouraged to change the position of their name as they see fit as the day progresses. It aids in the mindfulness practice of recognising emotions.
An adult can quickly check to see how the group is feeling and follow up on anyone who may have indicated that they are sad, angry, etc.
Two sizes of emoji are included so that the display can fit different settings. Large (p4-9) and Small (p10-12).
For name tags, print p13 as many times as needed.
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The cards can be used as part of an input about emotions and feelings. The intention is that the cards would be held with the image facing the child/children and the prompts facing the adult. The activity should help the child/children think carefully about what each emotion feels like to them when they experience them. For example, when we are happy we may feel like smiling, dancing, laughing, etc. This process aids in the mindfulness practice of recognising emotions.
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These playdough mats are perfect for gaining an insight into the day to day feelings of those in your care. Useful as a tool to explore feelings 1:1 with a child. However, they may be especially useful as a fine motor activity within a setting/school which also allows adults to tell at a glance the feelings of children within a group. This could be a particularly beneficial tool in assessing the feelings of those settling into a new setting. In addition, it aids in the mindfulness practice of recognising emotions.
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A variety of differentiated drawing/writing/mark making sheets which allow children to express how a piece of music made them feel. This is a great mindfulness tool for helping children to identify and understand their emotions.
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A variety of differentiated drawing/writing/mark making sheets which allow children to express how a story made them feel. This is a great mindfulness tool for helping children to identify and understand their emotions.
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This visual support board is to aid children in thinking about and conveying how they are feeling. The board is designed to be used with our A5 emoji cards pack.
Keywords: autism, autistic, non-verbal, non verbal, picture/visual communication aids, emotions, emotion/emotional regulation/dysregulation/self-regulation
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Children with Special Educational Needs and Disability can often experience the world in a different way to most. It can also sometimes be difficult for these children to express their feelings concerning this.
This resource is intended to help children and their parents/carers/teachers identify sources of anxiety and distress and also enjoyment. Strategies can then be put in place surrounding these findings.
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Keywords: autism, autistic, non-verbal, non verbal, picture/visual communication aids, feeling, feelings, emotions, emotion/emotional regulation/dysregulation/self-regulation, sensory processing, over-responsive, under-responsive
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Sensory awareness (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch)
Below are a few resources we have selected to help you and your child(ren) to ‘tune in’ to your senses.
Please note that a deeper awareness calls for the understanding of interoception, proprioception and vestibular sensory systems. The following poster outlines these for your knowledge. Not as easy to talk about with the children, but they can be touched upon and are important for practitioners/parents to have knowledge of especially when considering the experiences of neurodivergent children. You can access additional ‘Sensory Processing’ resources here.
Children with Special Educational Needs and Disability can often experience the world in a different way to most. Children with sensory processing difficulties may over- or under-respond to sensory information their bodies receive. It can also sometimes be difficult for these children to express their feelings concerning this.
It is therefore important for parents/carers/teachers to be aware of the different systems involved with sensory difficulties. To that end we have created a poster which highlights the sensory systems:
Smell/Taste
Interoception
Tactile
Vision
Proprioception
Auditory
Vestibular
We hope it helps!
Keywords: autism, autistic, non-verbal, non verbal, feeling, feelings, sensory processing, over-responsive, under-responsive
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Children with Special Educational Needs and Disability can often experience the world in a different way to most. Children with sensory processing difficulties may over- or under-respond to sensory information their bodies receive. It can also sometimes be difficult for these children to express their feelings concerning this.
This resource is intended to help children and their parents/carers/teachers identify, assess and monitor children’s feelings about and responses to sound, smell, taste, temperature, light and touch.
We hope it helps!
Keywords: autism, autistic, non-verbal, non verbal, picture/visual communication aids, feeling, feelings, emotions, emotion/emotional regulation/dysregulation/self-regulation, sensory processing, over-responsive, under-responsive
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Engaging the Senses in your Outdoor Area
We have created these prompt cards with the aim of promoting awareness of surroundings when in an outdoor play setting. The following activity prompts are intended to help children engage their senses to better notice and appreciate what they hear and see around them.
Pack of 20 ‘Can you make this sound?’ prompt cards. Ideal for outdoor play problem solving, observation and inspiring exploration!
These prompt cards are to be used to encourage sound making in the outdoor area.
The accompanying pictures are just an example for inspiration. The children can make the sounds however they like!
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Pack of 20 ‘Can you see?’ prompt cards. Ideal for outdoor play mindfulness, observation and inspiring exploration!
These prompt cards are to promote awareness of surroundings when in an outdoor play setting. This activity is intended to help children engage their senses to better notice and appreciate what they see around them.
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Pack of 14 ‘Can you hear?’ prompt cards. Ideal for outdoor play, mindfulness, observation and inspiring exploration!
These prompt cards are to promote awareness of surroundings when in an outdoor play setting. This activity is intended to help children engage their senses to better notice and appreciate what they hear around them.
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Sensory Walks
Choose a sense to ‘tune into’ on your walk. For example ‘ What can you hear?’ Take a moment on your walk to stop, stand still, close your eyes, and listen. What can you hear? Focus on that sound. Ideas for sensory walks can be found in our ‘Mindfulness Walk Cards’ pack and ‘Mindfulness Walks Poster’ prompt.
These mark making prompt sheets will help encourage your children to draw and/or write about their senses…perhaps after the children have been on a Summer walk! The sheets can be used separately or joined together to form a senses booklet.
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These prompts are intended to encourage discussion and thinking about our senses whilst at the beach.
Together with each mini-banner there are small note sheets for children to mark-make/write/draw their thoughts and experiences.
Keywords: beach, sense, senses, discussion, communication, smell, see, banner, mark making, hear, feel, taste, touch, activity, activities, display
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Sensory experiences
The following sensory stimuli are part of the early years experience. When children are allowed to ‘be in the moment’ when accessing these experiences it develops their mindfulness.
Children (and adults) can become free to use their senses to notice how something feels against their skin e.g. squeezing playdough or letting water glide through the gaps in their fingers, the details of how things look and smell and the sounds that are made.
The following pages may aid in these mindful experiences:
Scavenger Hunts
Scavenger hunts (especially when they engage all of the senses) can become a mindful experience. For example in our ‘Forest School Scavenger Hunt’ resources below children are encouraged to notice e.g. birds singing, something red, something small, something you can smell, etc.
More scavenger hunts can be found here. You may be especially interested in our ‘Beach School - Mindfulness Scavenger Hunt’ and our ‘Shapes - Descriptive Words Scavenger Hunt’.
These prompt cards are to promote mindfulness and awareness of surroundings when in a woodland setting.
This activity is intended to help children engage their senses to better notice and appreciate the environment around them.
18 prompt cards included.
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These checklists are to promote mindfulness and awareness of surroundings when in a woodland setting.
This activity is intended to help children engage their senses to better notice and appreciate the environment around them.
Activities, Wildlife, Mark Making/Drawing/Writing, Observation, Take Home, Pencil Control, Fine Motor, All Year Round - Wildlife, Mindfulness, Senses, Checklists/Tally Charts, Autumn page, Winter page, Spider's Web, Spider, Animal Homes, Ant, Birds, Nightingale, Minibeasts, Invertebrates, Ladybird, Bird's Nest, Bird's Eggs
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Focus on a single thought/input/task
Within the following pages (buttons below), you will find many resources which will encourage mindfulness. To list them all here would be too unwieldy. We have therefore selected a few to list (directly below) and invite you to search for variations (e.g. the same activity with a different theme) using the page buttons (further below).
Breathing
Focus on your breathing. There are various ways this can be achieved with children. Here are a couple of techniques:
Teddy Breathing - Lie down with a teddy resting on your chest. Slowly breathe in and out. Concentrate on the teddy moving up and down.
Finger Tracing - Follow the line with your finger… breathe in… breathe out.
We have prompt cards for the above techniques within our ‘Mindfulness Activity Cards’ pack.
(You may also find these ‘Human Body - Breathing’ resources helpful to compliment your mindful activities.)
Brick Building
Enjoy using building blocks to build a model in a quiet place.
You may find the following packs useful for inspiration. Additional similar resources are available on our ‘Construction’ page.
Set of 20 A5 sized ‘Can you build…?’ construction cards.
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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Challenge cards for children to use with building blocks such as Duplo and Lego. Children to look closely at the pattern on the cards and attempt to copy them with the blocks.
Ideal for observation skills, consolidating colour knowledge, fine motor control development and communication and language e.g. describing patterns/colours and discussing similarities and differences.
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Colouring
Colouring can be an incredible tool for engaging in mindfulness. It helps us all to pause and focus on a single creative pursuit. In doing so it can it can aid in the management of unhealthy thoughts and feelings and reduce stress and anxiety. In addition, it can help to deepen focus and improve attention.
Visit our ‘colouring’ page if you would like to browse the huge range of colouring activities we have available in various themes.
🍁 This peaceful printable resource is perfect for EYFS and KS1 children, providing a fantastic way to support fine motor skills, concentration, and emotional well-being through a relaxing and creative activity…
Pack of 9 colouring sheets with a ‘Fairies’ theme. Great for mindfulness practise!
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Display
Why not use one of our banners to start off your ‘Mindfulness’ display? Take photos of your mindfulness and display them to reflect and encourage additional activities. Perhaps you’d like to use our ‘Mindfulness - Activity Cards’ for inspiration and/or as part of your display?
Why not use our ‘Mindfulness’ banners to start off your Mindfulness Display? Take photos of your mindfulness and display them to reflect and encourage additional activities. Perhaps you’d like to use our ‘Mindfulness - Activity Cards’ for inspiration and/or as part of your display?
Find additional ‘Mindfulness’ resources here.
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Why not use our ‘We are mindful’ banners to start off your Mindfulness Display? Take photos of your mindfulness and display them to reflect and encourage additional activities. Perhaps you’d like to use our ‘Mindfulness - Activity Cards’ for inspiration and/or as part of your display?
Find additional ‘Mindfulness’ resources here.
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Gardening
Many activities which care for plants can be done in a very mindful way. Planting seeds carefully and watering plants purposefully, considering each action you take and the resulting effect on the plant, can be a very mindful experience. It also promotes a connection with nature. You may find some useful resources to compliment your gardening experience on our ‘Gardening’ page.
Heartbeat
Feel your heartbeat in your chest and concentrate on the rhythm. This is one of the most straight forward ways to connect with your interoceptive sensory system. We have a prompt card for this within our ‘Mindfulness Activity Cards’ pack.
Find out more about interoception, proprioception and our vestibular sensory systems by accessing our ‘Sensory Systems Posters’ here.
(You may find these ‘Human Body - Circulatory/Blood System’ resources helpful to compliment your mindful activities.)
Jigsaw Puzzle
Complete a jigsaw puzzle in a quite space. Focussing on the detailed shapes and patterns in order to solve the problem (without distractions) will make this a calm, peaceful and mindful experience. We have puzzles of varying difficulty depending on the age and stage of your child(ren).
Browse our ‘Puzzles’ page to choose one that’s right for you and your child(ren).
This matching puzzle has a different connection for each set to allow the children to self-correct
‘Birds Silhouette Puzzles’ featuring: pigeon, vulture, seagull, robin, buzzard, magpie, blackbird, duck, barn owl, swallow, chicken, flamingo, goose and penguin.
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Pack of various construction themed 4-piece puzzles for colouring, including: hard hat, gloves, digger, bricks, toolbox, tape measure, saw, spanner and screwdriver.
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In addition, to add an extra mindfulness step (or two), why not choose one of our puzzles which need colouring and cutting before hand. (Depending on your child) both the colouring and cutting processes can become focussed mindful experiences.
Matching and Ordering
Activities which focus on matching and ordering require us to look closely at similarities and differences. This kind of activity when carried out calmly and purposefully in a focussed way can be a powerful mindfulness experience. Children become fully engaged in the task and therefore the moment.
Browse our ‘Matching’ activities here and our ‘Ordering’ activities here.
‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’ themed size ordering pictures. Intended to be cut out (and ideally laminated) for use by children in repeatable size ordering activities. If you have access to a fuzzy felt board, why not stick velcro tabs on the back so that children can move them around on the board?
Alternatively use them as a cut and stick activity (to also strengthen fine motor skills) for the children to take home and discuss with their families using words such as ‘big, small, medium sized’ or ‘small, smaller, smallest, big, bigger, biggest’.
Differentiate for individual children by using just 1 or 2 of the pictures for comparison e.g to focus on the words ‘big’ and ‘small’ or use all of the pictures to allow for greater variation of comparative language.
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Mindfulness Walk
Choose a theme for a walk. Focus on just that theme as you enjoy your walk. The following prompts will help give you some inspiration for a mindfulness focus.
This poster contains ideas for walks that promote mindfulness and encourage an awareness of surroundings.
The ideas are intended to give the children time and space to focus on one thing at a time, remaining in the present moment.
This poster is designed as primarily a choosing prompt…perhaps a reminder of activities that have previously been undertaken. For more detailed descriptions for each activity, please see our ‘Mindfulness Walk Cards’ pack.
We hope this helps!
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These cards contain ideas for walks that promote mindfulness and encourage an awareness of surroundings.
The ideas are intended to give the children time and space to focus on one thing at a time, remaining in the present moment.
We hope this helps!
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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Outdoor Activities
These activity cards contain ideas to promote mindfulness and awareness of surroundings when in a woodland setting.
The activities are intended to give the children time and space to think about the environment around them and their own interactions with it.
16 activity cards included.
Activities, Wildlife, Observation, All Year Round - Wildlife, Mindfulness, Senses, Challenges, Posters/Displays, Cards/Flashcards, Mark Making/Drawing/Writing, Autumn page, Winter page
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These activity cards contain ideas to promote mindfulness and awareness of surroundings when in a beach setting.
The activities are intended to give the children time and space to think about the environment around them and their own interactions with it.
Keywords: mindfulness, blow bubbles, cloud, sandprint, sand, prints, texture, feel, reading, make marks, stick, twig, beach, shells, create natural artwork, breathe in, breathe out, close your eyes, pebble press, role-play, beach animal, I spy colours, mandala, repeating patterns, concentric circles, wildlife, fossils, rocks, stones, listening walk, smell walk, activities
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A few examples of outdoor activities you will find within these packs:
Blow bubbles - Watch where the wind takes them.
Cloud watching - Look up at the clouds. Watch as they slowly move and change.
Reading - Find a quiet spot outdoors such as under a tree or on a sandy beach. Look at a book independently or get immersed in a story being read to you.
Wildlife watching - Look closely. Can you see an animal? Perhaps a tiny minibeast? What is it doing? How is it moving? Watch quietly.
(More activities within the above packs.)
Role play - moving like something else
Allowing children to fully immerse themselves in moving like e.g. a leaf gently floating to the ground or a big heavy elephant, focusses a child’s body and mind on a single experience. A strong connection is made and movements become purposeful. By pretending to be something else children are beginning to develop the ability to see the world through different eyes, thus nurturing compassion and empathy.
For additional movement activity challenge cards please visit our ‘Expressive Movement’ page.
After being folded and laminated these cards can be used to encourage expressive movement with or without music.
The image side is to be held facing the child(ren) with the other side being read by an adult.
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Have great fun with your children whilst all pretending to be minibeasts with this set of 8 Minibeast Activity Challenge cards.
Perhaps children could stand in a circle around the pile of cards and take turns to pick one for everyone to do. Cards could equally be shrunk down and placed on a key ring to take out on adventures or featured on an indoor or outdoor display board and referred to with everyone carrying out the activity on floor space in front. Once the children get to know the cards they will be able to relate the action to the picture without necessarily needing the card read to them...For example an adult may be able to simply hold up a card and everyone will be able to do the activity together! For those children who are exceptionally engaged, these cards explored in sequence could even be set to music as a dance performance!
Great for physical development, descriptive language, understanding the world and turn taking.
Numbers, Activity Packs, Cards, Games, Posters/Displays, Number Recognition & Ordering, Gross Motor/Movement, Activity, Group Activity, Discussion Prompts, Print Carries Meaning, Earthworm, Ladybird, Spider, Snail, Bumblebee, Centipede, Dragonfly, Butterfly
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For further development of this activity, you may like to encourage children to create masks. Both the process of colouring a mask and cutting it out (depending on the age and stage of a child) can also be a mindful experience.
Browse our ‘Masks’ page here.
Autumn animal masks pack. Ideal for autumn themed role play and art and craft!
Pack includes 8 masks: badger, hedgehog, fox, deer, barn owl, red squirrel, grey squirrel and deer with antlers.
Keywords: owl, owls, badger, badgers, hedgehog, hedgehogs, fox, foxes, deer, deer, barn owls, red squirrels, grey squirrels, deer with antlers, owl babies, owl baby
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Autumn animal masks pack. Ideal for autumn themed role play!
Pack includes 8 masks: badger, hedgehog, fox, deer, barn owl, red squirrel, grey squirrel and deer with antlers.
Keywords: owl, owls, badger, badgers, hedgehog, hedgehogs, fox, foxes, deer, deer, barn owls, red squirrels, grey squirrels, deer with antlers, owl babies, owl baby
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🦔 Introduce a moment of calm into your autumn topic with our wonderful Autumn: Mindfulness Colouring Hedgehogs! This peaceful printable resource is perfect for EYFS and KS1 children…