Mindfulness Activities

Being creative is a great way to look after your mind and can help you to calm down. Try some of these activities

• Draw some pictures

• Paint a picture

• Write a story

• Write a poem

• Perform a play

Concentrating on our breathing can help make some big emotions feel smaller. See if you can do some of these

• Pretend your belly is like a balloon. Breathe in and make the balloon bigger, then breathe out and make the balloon shrink.

• Smell the soup, cool the soup or smell the hot cocoa, cool the hot cocoa

• Darth Vader Breathing - pretend you have a straw in your mouth, suck in through the straw and breathe in. Breathe out like Darth Vader.

• Ocean Breathing - breathe in and imagine the wave rolling in, breathe out and imagine the wave rolling out.

• Colour breathing - breathe in and imagine a calm, happy, positive color. Breathe out and imagine a color that represents stress, anxiety, etc. leaving your body.

Moving your body is a great way to clear your mind when your feelings get too big. Give some of these a go, they are sure to make you feel calmer and happier

• Do a silly dance

• Go for a walk

• Play outside

• Have a kitchen disco

• See how many times you can run up and down the stairs