Month: April 2022

Here is a great exercise you can do at home this bank holiday:

Calm Picture Write the word CALM as large as possible and let your child colour in the word. They can add pictures of things that help them feel calm. Let them use calming colours – anything to create an image of calm. Tell children to stare at the picture and see how calm they can feel. Then ask them to close their eyes and make the picture very small – like a postage stamp. Tell children they can keep this little picture anywhere they like in their body – heart, head, and finger. Whenever they are feeling stressed and anxious, they can look at their calm picture and feel calm.

If you liked this exercise, we have lots of activities in our Colour ME colouring book.
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After all the fun of easter egg hunts, easter games, and lots and lots of chocolate, there’s no better time to do some relaxation!

Try these Spring time exercises at home:

Easter Egg – Imagine that you are a chocolate easter egg outside in the sunshine. You feel yourself melting slowly.
Feel your whole body becoming relaxed and letting go as you melt and sink further into the floor.

Green Breaths – Lie down on the floor or bed and put your hand on your tummy. Breathe in and out gently and feel your tummy rising and falling. Now, as you breathe in, imagine you are breathing green light. It feels very calming and peaceful. Now breathe the green light out into the room. Fill the whole room with soft green light. Breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out.

Butterfly Massage – You may like to try these massage strokes on your child’s back or encourage siblings to give each other a relaxing massage. Imagine your thumbs are a caterpillar crawling up your child’s spine. Slowly and gently walk up the sides of the spine like a caterpillar. Walk right up to the neck and down again. Now, rub the back to warm it up. Finally practice some butterfly strokes and flutter your fingers all over your child’s head, neck and back.

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Here are some simple and fun activities to do with the children this Easter holiday!

Themed walks 

Complete a ‘colour palette walk’ and note down the shades and tones you spot. 

A ‘Fruits of the Forest’ walk would allow children to collect stones, leaves and other special gifts from nature. You could even plan a ‘Treasure Hunt’ or an Easter Egg hunt where you could create a route together with your child and have a gift set up at the finish line for reaching your final destination! 

Holiday Journal 

Try and see how many different types of leaves you can find. These can then be taken home and pressed into a lovely spring scrapbook to which all the family can contribute. Write poems and stories inspired by the break. 

Easter picnics 

Pack a basket full of your favourite foods and set out a blanket in your lounge or get out in the garden or park.

Forest sculptures 

Construct your own statue using things found from mother nature. 

Plant something 

Give something back to nature, whether it is something you have found on one of your holiday adventures or the seeds from your fruits Remember to thank the great outdoors for the fun it has provided you with over this break.   Have a listen to the tracks below.

Winding Down 

The Relax Kids Nature Meditations CD / MP3 is a great way to finish off those busy days and relax your children and yet preserve their encounter with the great outdoors, in a productive, comforting way. 

Have a Mindful with our FREE Easter Pack including Family Rituals, Affirmation Cards, Colouring Sheet and Magic Seeds exercise. Download your Easter Pack Here