Mindfulness Activities - Summer Themed
These summer 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 Sun Craftivity: Students will create a sun shaped foldable page and answer the 8 prompts about what mindfulness is and what it is not. Craftivity comes in color and black and white.
Summer Mindfulness Sort: This activity includes 24 starfish scenarios that students will categorize as either mindful or not mindful. Students will create pockets for each category, cut out the starfish scenarios, 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 summer places: the beach, a picnic, the park, a campfire and a baseball game. File book comes in color and black and white.
Summer Food Mindfulness Cards: This activity includes 32 task cards to encourage students to deeply reflect on how they experience various summer foods. Students will identify what 8 foods taste like, smell like, feel like and look like. Cards come in color and black and white.
Flip Flop Close Listening Cards: This activity includes 24 close listening cards with the words “flip” “flop” and “flap” on them. Students listen carefully to the words being read, and react, by clapping their hands or raising their hands, every time they hear the word ”flap.” A perfect activity to help with mindful listening and impulse control.
Summer Word Associations Accordion Books: Students will look at 6 summer 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 Summer Memory Flap Book: Students will construct a flap book that encourages them to thoroughly reflect on a favorite summer 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 summer 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.
All activities include discussion questions to serve as a guide.
For more information, look at 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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