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Mindfulness With Art

What is Mindfulness?

Mindfulness is the ability to be fully present in the moment and to focus on where we are and what we’re doing without allowing other, intrusive thoughts, worries, or fears to permeate our minds. When we’re practicing mindfulness, we’re impartial and non-judgmental to what’s happening around us, and when our minds wander, we redirect our thoughts back to the present moment.

Mindfulness

Mindfulness can be enormously helpful to children and adolescents in the general population for dealing with the everyday difficulties of today’s super-charged, highly stressful kid-life. Studies have shown that mindfulness in the classroom brings students back into the present moment so they can learn. On this page we will devote our time on the topic of Mindfulness with Art

Learning to Control Their Attention

Help students develop attentional control
The goal is to quiet yourself and get yourself to a place where your mind settled. This is a lifelong tool!
Mindfulness helps kids who suffer from anxiety

Creating Calmness in the Classroom

Students learn how to self-regulate their behaviors

Helping Kids Mange Stress

Students learn how to self-regulate their behaviors

Painting Chrome Apps and Websites:

Implementing Mindfulness Strategies used in the BASD

Zones of Regulation

Red Zone is used to describe extremely heightened states of alertness and intense emotions. A person may be elated or experiencing anger, rage, explosive behavior, devastation, or terror when in the Red Zone.
Yellow Zone is also used to describe a heightened state of alertness and elevated emotions, however, one has more control when they are in the Yellow Zone. A person may be experiencing stress, frustration, anxiety, excitement, silliness, the wiggles, or nervousness when in the Yellow Zone.
Green Zone is used to describe a calm state of alertness. A person may be described as happy, focused, content, or ready to learn when in the Green Zone. This is the zone where optimal learning occurs.
Blue Zone is used to describe low states of alertness and down feelings such as when one feels sad, tired, sick, or bored.

The Seven Habits

1 - Be proactive.
2 - Begin with the end in mind.
3 - Put first things first.
4 - Think win-win.
5 - Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
6 - Synergize!
7 - Sharpen the Saw; Growth.

Links:

Integrating Mindfulness in Your Classroom Curriculum | Edutopia

Mindfulness Activities for Kids: 17 Ways to Raise Mindful Children

8/13/19 Session # 1 Room A108

What is Mindfulness? Patrick

Mindfulness in Motion: Jaime

Sensory Awareness Activity: Listening, Breathing, Touching, Cross Body Movement
Artmaking: Square Breathing demo, Happy Little Rock Landscape Painting
Gratitude Practice at Closure: Pass the ball game

Technology Connections: Patrick

Move to Learn
Pinterest Mindfulness + Art
Take 5 Breathing video
I Am Peace: Susan Verde and Peter Reynolds (Jaime has)
My Many Colored Days by Dr. Suess with printable (Jaime has)

Artmaking Materials

Watercolor paper

Water

Paper towels

Sharpie

Pencil

Watercolor sets