Calming Colouring for Kids

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Last Name * Please enter a Last Name Please enter a valid Last Name, the maximum length is 50 characters. You can learn more about mindfulness and its part in the Five Precepts of Buddhism with our Teaching Wiki here.Mindfulness is the process of keeping your attention and thoughts on the present moment and can help to improve mood, concentration, focus and well-being. Counting breaths in a lovely simple exercise and with the added colours, it engages childrens imaginations too! We've even started producing mindfulness colouring activities with different children's names on, so that you can personalise their colouring time, like this Ivy Mindfulness Name Colouring Activity.

Try these free calming colouring by numbers from Twinkl whenever you need a quick, go to mindful activity for your kids. An example of using colouring for mindfulness would be: "I'll colour all the squares in this picture blue. These mindfulness colouring pages are fantastic resources to slot into your lesson or to use at home.It’s an activity that can be done anywhere, whether at school, at the end of the day, or at home when there’s a moment to spare. The other option is to take a Lion Breath and ask your child to notice their inner bravery, then take a big breath and roar like a lion. Twelve animals are available, including a bat, butterfly, dragonfly, elephant, fox, iguana, owl, raccoon, rhino, turtle, hermit crab and snail. Concentrate yourselves on doing something creative and let your skills shine whilst you take your mind off any of your worries.

Our Help Centre should provide a solution but I will also send a copy of the resource through to you. If you are looking to encourage wellbeing in the classroom, check out our Wellbeing Training Booklet. As calm mindfulness resources to give your children a chance to be aware of the moment and reflect on their feelings and thoughts. Here, over 80 hand-drawn illustrations – from grids to Art Nouveau florals, from Japanese waves to Medieval motifs – are just waiting for a touch of colour from pens, pencils, felt tips or paints. My class love colouring, but this time I'm using it as a behaviour management tool for one of my more challenging children.Colouring is known to help the brain enter a meditative state, reducing stress and anxiety and leading to feelings of calm relaxation and contentment. All you need to do is focus on the task with the intention of relaxing and your brain will thank you! We use them when they have a free moment and also to calm and focus the children when they are particularly excited. If you'd like to give your children a bit more creative freedom, check out our Seahorse Colouring Outline Sheet.

g. thank you cards for volunteers(I know you also have a special version, but this gives our kids a few more designs to choose from. There are no complicated instructions and they won't need any special equipment, only pens, pencils and their own creativity are needed to enjoy this charming book. Simply print out the colouring pages and keep them handy with a pack of pencils for those that might need a quiet moment. As my followers will know, suffering from anxiety and depression was a big catalyst in starting colouring and indeed creating this blog. Jules Miller has done a fantastic job illustrating Sarah's words, both of them creating a really theraputic and helpful colouring book for people with anxiety and indeed any colourist.Colouring in is too much fun to just be for children, so pick up your pens and colour your way to calm.