Flower Breath
Flower breath is a simple mindfulness exercise for kids. It is easy to do with a real or imaginary flower and can be practiced anytime. Making deep breathing fun and combining it with a fun breath, such as flower breath can help kids practice their breath and use breathing as a way to cope or calm down.
This flower breath uses an imaginary flower but you could use this as the beginning of a spring activity and go on a mindful walk with your kids, looking for flowers throughout your walk, and then using your deep breathing to smell the flower. This incorporates movement, sensory input of picking up and blowing flowers, and the fresh air of outside. You could also use the flowers you find and make a collage or craft from them.
Deep Breathing
Deep breathing exercises are designed to support self-regulation, mindfulness and brain break needs.
Many times, kids can struggle at home and school with anger or frustration and they lack the coping strategies needed in those situations. They require tools to improve self-regulation. This can occur both at school and home. Children, like adults, experience worry and anxiety, fears and can be nervous in life situations and having simple strategies on hand can help them cope during the day.
One way to do this is to use mindfulness strategies like deep breathing exercises. Children who practice mindfulness will find it much easier to focus and actively engage in the classroom. Practicing mindfulness and breathing exercises can be very powerful for kids as they grow and navigate the world we live in. Students in the classroom who use mindfulness will bring a sense of collective calm to the space as well making the learning environment more favorable for everyone. Incorporating mindfulness can be fun !
That is where this Flower Breath comes in.
How to Practice Flower Breath
- Hold a real or imaginary flower in your hand
- Take a deep breath in as you smell the flower
- As you breathe out, blow air onto the flower and feel the petals move with your breath.
- Repeat 3-5 times
Use the audio below to play for your kids and practice flower breathing:
Ways to Use:
- Use the Poster as a Printable and hang it in the classroom, therapy room or at home.
- Use the deep breathing exercises as a brain break during the spring.
- Go on a mindful walk, find a flower and breathe in as you smell the flower and then out as you blow the petals. Alternatively, glue the leaf to the printable, and follow the arrows using the real lead.
Flower Breath
Flower breath is a quick and easy breathing exercise to help down-regulate or calm down your kids. Let me know if you used this breath and how your kids enjoyed it!
If you liked this breath, check out some of my other simple breathing exercises for kids here:
