Mindfulness Activities - Fall Themed
These fall themed mindfulness activities will help your students to learn about what mindfulness is and how they can practice it. These activities use mindfulness techniques such as guided imagery, thorough reflection, awareness of thoughts and feelings, close observation and deep breathing. They are great for individual, small group or classroom lessons!
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What's Included:
Mindful Acorn Craftivity Students will create an acorn shaped foldable and
answer the 3 prompts about what mindfulness is.
Trick-Or-Treat Mindfulness Sort This activity includes 18 trick-or- treating
scenarios that students will categorize as either mindful or not mindful.
Students will create pockets for each category, cut out the scenario cards, and
place in the corresponding pocket. Activity materials come in color and black
and white.
Where I Can Be Mindful File Book This file book encourages students to
identify how they can practice mindfulness in 5 fall settings: trick-or-treating,
carving pumpkins, at a football game, raking leaves, and picking apples. File
book comes in color and black and white.
Thanksgiving Food Mindfulness Cards This activity includes 32 task cards to
encourage students to deeply reflect on how they experience various
Thanksgiving foods. Students will identify what 8 foods taste like, smell like, feel
like and look like. Cards come in color and black and white.
Nature Walk/ Leaf Observation These two activities include recording sheets
for a nature walk and for a leaf observation. In the nature walk, students will
mindfully observe the world around them. For the leaf observation, students will
carefully observe a fallen leaf, and record their findings.
Fall Word Association Accordion Books Students will look at 6 fall themed
words and identify the feelings and thoughts they associate with these words.
Students will use accordion books that can be attached into an interactive
notebook while practicing this mindfulness technique.
My Favorite Fall Memory Flap Book Students will construct a flap book that
encourages them to thoroughly reflect on a favorite fall memory. Students will
practice mindfulness as they recall as many details as possible about the event
and then draw a picture of the memory. These can be attached to an
interactive notebook.
What I Would Notice Students will consider 8 fall situations, and determine
what these situations would be like using their five senses. Once the
worksheets are completed, students can use them to play a guessing game.
Additional Mindfulness Activities Includes the directions for 6 additional ways
to practice mindfulness with your students. Each activity plan includes
discussion questions to help guide the activity.
For more information on what is included, please see the preview!
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Ideas For Use:
Mindfulness lessons or groups
Self regulation lessons or groups
Coping skills lessons or groups
Morning meetings
With students who could benefit from increased self control
With students who could benefit from focusing on the present moment
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