Physical Education Activities (by date, oldest first)

Happy Halloween! Children look forward to Halloween to explore the world of all that is scary in a safe way.

This Halloween-themed product contains:
- Five (5) spooktacular coloring pages

- The Spooky Walk yoga sequence poster, with nine (9) poses

Are you ready for some spooky Halloween fun?

Happy spring yogis! Enjoy this 5 pose yoga sequence of things we see in Spring. The following poses are designed to encourage movement and creativity as we transition from Winter to Spring. It’s time to explore the outdoors and be more active throughout the day.

We have provided this spring yoga sequence as a printable poster as well as cards. The cards are available for purchase in our store (see "Kids Yoga Spring Sequence Pose Cards / Yoga Card Deck").

This five part yoga sequence is perfect for kids, teens and adults to do together. Each pose is meant to encourage movement and exploration.

Teachers tell me they can't integrate yoga and mindfulness for two reasons: They don't know how and they don't have time. I hear that 100%.

This product is made to help you SAVE time, but first, you have to invest your time. If you spend ten minutes a day, 3 times a week in September and October, by November you only spend 5 minutes, and by January kids are doing this all by themselves. You can learn it together and then you ALL get the skills! Imagine that! Imagine the time you will save not micro-managing behavior.

A colleague and first-grade teacher name Nicole did just as I described above and her class was lightyears more manageable by mid-year than the other groups. People would comment about how quietly they walked in the hallway and how quickly they transitioned from activity to activity. She invested the time and was paid back in dividends. I developed this product to help others share in Nicole's success.

Together, we can use yoga and mindfulness to learn about and take care of our bodies. 

Social-emotional learning and self-awareness can be learned using this product. Think of the responsible decisions children can begin to make when we help them connect the dots inward and outward.

Commit to this lesson unit to help your students become more aware of their bodies as you guide them to make mindful connections between how body parts may feel and how can we care for ourselves. Explore ten (10) key body parts and how we can use body awareness to learn about our bodies and emotions while gaining valuable exercise. Each body part has accompanying yoga poses, mindful activities, and facilitated discussion prompts.

This lesson unit includes:

• Teacher’s Manual: a complete lesson plan filled with facilitated discussions, activities, yoga poses, meditations and more.
• Student Workbook: written for children, a beautiful combination of a body awareness journal and an illustrated yoga practice sequence to care for each body part.
• Yoga Pose Index: a how-to instruction for 21 yoga poses, breathing exercises and mindfulness activities.
• Presentation: a slide presentation including yoga poses and activities found in the Teacher’s Manual perfect for viewing on a SmartBoard.

Teacher’s Manual and accompanying Student Workbook that kids will love!

Teach students to care for themselves using our Teacher’s Manualand companion Student Workbook. Use the Yoga Pose Index to discover how to do each pose, written for children. 

All of the content featured in the Student Workbook is expanded for teachers and parents in the Teacher’s Manual, so you can use them together. Use the accompanying presentation on a smartboard for visual aid. The Student Workbook features a body awareness journal that kids can fill out while learning yoga poses and mindfulness activities. 

In the Teacher’s Manual, you will find:

• “My Body and Caring for Myself” lesson plan
• Ten (10) unique body part experiences, each paired with a combination of meditation, mudra, yoga poses, and/or breathing for each one 
• Group work and fun activities with facilitated questions and discussion prompts
• Tips for management, when to explore deeper, and when to move on

In the Student Workbook, you will find:

• Ten (10) unique body part experiences, each paired with a combination of meditation, mudra, yoga poses, fun facts and/or breathing for each one 
• Mindful journaling questions for each body part 
• Daily Practice Journals to promote forming #lifelonghealthyhabits
• Information about how yoga, mindfulness and body awareness can help us take care of ourselves

The Presentation works amazingly well on a SmartBoard or any device, so you can follow the talking points as you naturally veer into an interesting discussion with your students.

These lessons plans can be used as a yoga class series, or easily incorporated into the school classroom or at home.

This download includes four (4) PDFs which you can view on your phone, tablet, computer or print out onto paper.

In this 18 slide PowerPoint,

learn about mindfulness and yoga breathing, proper nutrition, proper technology use, bedtime, and sleep hygiene, as well as an empowerment yoga pose series meant to strengthen and build confidence.

Can be used on the smartboard or on children's personal devices, or print individual slides.

The last slide has a link to download the healthy habits tracker for FREE

Teaching your kids love and compassion is a gift that keeps giving. 

Compassion teaches us about empathy and can improve our relationships with ourselves and others. Through that, children can build character and self-confidence. Fostering compassion in children is also one of the best ways to prevent bullying. With compassion, kids decision-making will be rooted in a deep, caring ethic. 

How can we teach our kids about compassion? 

Compassion is a quality that children can learn over time and through practice. We developed three lesson plans so your young yogis can foster love and compassion in three ways:

• I Love Myself: Use this lesson plan to promote inner love.
• I Love My Community: Build love, trust, and kindness with friends and family through this lesson plan. 
• I Love My Planet: Use this lesson plan to build gratitude and love for our planet!

Lesson Plans for Teachers and Parents

In our Educator’s edition, we provide 3 easy-to-follow curriculums for teachers, parents, and anyone else that works with tweens/teens. Each lesson plan is formatted to teach an entire class, including discussion prompts, group activities, yoga movement, guided relaxations, crafts, and coloring pages.

Printable Heart-opening Yoga Cards

Learn six (6) yoga poses with our Love and Compassion Yoga Cards. Written for kids, each card comes with easy-to-follow illustrations and step-by-step instructions. Use the yoga deck to teach a full sequence, learn individual poses, play games, or leave the cards in your peace corner when kids want a moment. 

This packet includes:

• Three (3) lesson plans to confidently teach a full kids yoga class
• How-to instruction for each activity, written for kids
• Six (6) printable yoga cards
• Six (6) printable coloring pages
• Facilitated discussion prompts, journaling activities, breathing exercises, crafts, games and additional activities 
• Printable journal to reflect on your practice

Love and Compassion Yoga Sequence for Tweens/Teens is a 47 page PDF download that you can view on your phone, tablet, computer or print to paper.

Sing and flow through one of our favorite yoga holiday songs!

This activity was one I did when I first started teaching yoga to children. When I noticed how mystified the children were with the holiday season, a colleague of mine suggested pairing a pose with each of the 12 Days of Christmas. You can play the song alone, you can sing the song as you do the poses, or you can practice the poses one at a time and simply enjoy the song afterward. 

It’s super fun to try to remember which pose goes with which verse and to have the children attempt to teach it back in order.

If you’re concerned about this material not being secular, use caution. This is best practiced in environments where mentioning and celebrating Christmas is welcomed.
Printable Christmas Yoga CardsSing along and learn twelve (12) yoga poses. Print and cut out our twelve (12) yoga cards and use them in the classroom, yoga studio, or at home! Also included are written instructions for kids, giving cues for children to correctly practice each pose. And additional yoga card games that kids will love!

Mindfulness, Crafts, and Coloring Pages for Kids

Use our mindfulness activities, crafts, and coloring pages when kids need a moment to be calm and focused. We created holiday-themed activities that kids can enjoy in their free time, as brain breaks, transitional activities and more. 

This packet includes:

• Twelve (12) printable yoga cards

• Five (5) holiday mindfulness activities 

• How-to instruction for each activity, written for kids

• Five (5) holiday-themed coloring pages

• Journaling pages with prompts for kids

12 Days of Yoga is a 37 page PDF download that you can view on your phone, tablet, computer or print to paper.

Social Emotional Learning can be engaging, active, and self-reflective.

Grab your students' attention with this beautifully illustrated walk through our inner emotional lives.

Learn how to ask yourself important questions, such as noticing emotions and where we feel them in the body.

Learn many yoga poses and breathing activities in this 13 slide activity.

Move and breathe through a childhood classic. The Napping House by Don and Audrey Wood has been a favorite story in my classes for years, and with a librarian’s suggestion, I brought it to life through yoga for the first time in 2012. Now accompanied by our beautiful illustrations, we can use this yoga sequence to promote a lifelong love of learning, reading, and healthy habits.

Each of the characters in the story is paired with a yoga pose, and each page adds another character in order. As the sequence builds, the poses come together in a beautiful flow. Do the poses as you read, or read and then do the poses—whatever feels the best to you.

This lesson plan is a perfect resource for teachers, parents or clinicians who want bring the story to life with movement. We’ve included a story script and a list of poses so children can learn the yoga sequence.

The Napping House Literacy Integration is a 14-page PDF download that you can view on your phone, tablet, computer or print to paper.
This download contains the following:

• The Napping House Lesson Plan designed for kids ages 4-10

• List of yoga poses, props and key themes that relate to the story

• Story script to read along with The Napping House

• Guided relaxation, meditation script, crafts, and group activities

• The Napping House yoga sequence poster, with nine (9) poses

With love from my heart and my team to you!
Lara

A fun, simple toddler and preschool friendly dragon yoga sequence.

Poses: Superhero (locust pose), cobra, down dog, mountain pose

This is a yoga class inspired to help students with their attitudes and feelings towards challenges in their lives. We provide activity pages, coloring sheets, and discussion prompts to get your students thinking about their strengths and areas for growth. We also are providing poses to help stretch and grow their bodies further into the pose as they repeat mantras.

In this lesson plan, we include:

• Yoga lesson plan with written instructions for children grades 1-6
• Detailed instruction for breathing activities, yoga games, poses, and meditations
• 5 yoga cards you can print and cut out
• Activity sheets including mantra cards and worksheets
• Printable posters you can hang up

Hello! Thank you for coming on this journey or learning to incorporate yoga and mindfulness into your work with preschoolers. I believe there is a special combination that consists of three parts: self-care, practice, and material support. This packet has a mixture of all three.

WHAT’S INCLUDED:

• Self-care

• Breathing Exercises

• Yoga Poses/Activities (spring yoga poses - 6 total)

• Yoga Songs

• Daily Practice Journal

• Breathing & Meditation Poster

• Spring Sequence Poster

• Yoga Sequence Cards

YOGA CARDS:

1. Print the yoga pose card deck.

2. Cut out each pose card.

3. Tape or glue on a 4x6 index card or

card stock.

(Optional: Laminate the cards so they

last longer)

Make shapes fun with yoga. Enjoy this fun activity our founder has been doing in classes since 2009! Shapes are all around us, and we can even make shapes with our bodies.

Use this activity packet to inspire littles ones to explore the world around us with math and shapes.

For years I’ve taught this class to toddlers, preschoolers and kindergarteners. It’s perfect for early childhood or group where big kids support younger kids. If you have mixed ages, or are working with first or second graders, you can make it interesting by focusing on the number of sides in a shape and placing the poses in order based on the number of sides in the shape. Remember to have fun, allow for mistakes, review the shapes and poses in a light hearted way, and make the children feel like shapes, math, and yoga are their friends.

Let’s Make Shapes! is a 17-page PDF download that you can view on your phone, tablet, computer or print to paper.

This activity packet includes:

• Yoga pose cards for six (6) shapes and games to play
• Detailed instruction for the yoga poses, written for kids
• Facilitated discussion prompts, breathing exercises and a mindfulness activity
• Crafts and coloring pages related to shapes
• Shapes Yoga poster

On a smartboard on via personal device, share a morning yoga routine with your students.

We have shared this at school assemblies across the US for all grade levels pre-k-8th grade

Use this worksheet with your students or children to reflect upon their activity and movement for the day. They can also track what they intend to do for activity and breathing other days of the week!

Happy Halloween! Children look forward to Halloween to explore the world of all that is scary in a safe way. The Spooky Walk is a call-and-response style seated marching yoga game to get kids in the Halloween spirit. It has been one of the most popular activities of all my years of teaching. I hope you love it!

When we do this song and game, we get to explore the emotion of being afraid in a safe space. You can take the time to explain that it’s all pretend and give kids practice with the vocabulary related Halloween and being afraid. Words such as scary, ghost, escape, safety, and pretend are all good words to practice prior to this activity. If you have very young or extra sensitive kids, please take the time to make sure they feel safe and know this is just pretend prior to starting. 
Spooky Halloween also contains Halloween-themed activities including activities, games and crafts to get into the Halloween spirit! Learn nine yoga poses and spooky breathing exercises. To get those creative juices flowing, we’ve included five coloring pages.
Spooky Halloween is a 15-page PDF download that you can view on your phone, tablet, computer or print out onto paper.

• Designed for kids ages 2-10
• The Spooky Walk call-and-response game and instructions
• Halloween-themed activities including breathing exercises, crafts, and group activities
• The Spooky Walk yoga sequence poster, with nine (9) poses
• Five (5) spooktacular coloring pages

In this accessible, simple learning sequence, explore SEL with children through yoga and mindfulness.

10 slides total, including links to download or learn the activities and printables referenced for FREE

mindful glitter jar

breathing activities

powerful poses

mantra/positive affirmations

CASEL's SEL framework

Can be used for PD or with students on a smartboard or on devices, or print individual slides

• Pose posters, printable games, instructions for bedtime yoga poses, calming yoga for kids, spring yoga poses, and Halloween yoga pose poster(More than 40 poses!)
• Sun salutation poster
• Gratitude breathing
• Daily Practice Journal
• My Mantra Cards
• Breathing activity Worksheet
• Positive Affirmation Cards
• Cat bookmark
• 17 total activities/sheets/posters/breathing/worksheets for kids of all ages and abilities

For many, the passage into Autumn means a shift from Summer to the academic year. That passage is marked by changes of season. Long days and short nights turn to shorter days and longer nights. Summer days may have been filled with recreation, camp, family, and travel. Now schools days are filled with academics, homework, extracurricular activities, and busy schedules.

With all the changes, some students and families experience anxiety, stress, and difficulty balancing all they need to do. 

Our Autumn Yoga Sequence can help yoga practitioners of all ages to feel a deeper sense of balance within. 

With yoga and mindfulness, kids can become more calm, focused in school, and empowered to start every day with confidence and compassion.

Explore the benefits of Yoga and Mindfulness

• More self-awareness
• Improved focus
• Attunement to nature
• Experience in mindfulness with real-world context 
• Fun
• Promotes physical and mental wellbeing
• Improved balance 

What’s Included?

• Printable yoga deck to learn five (5) yoga poses
• Tips for yoga and yoga card games
• Four (4) Autumn mindfulness activities
• Five (5) coloring pages 
• An Autumn story to integrate the yoga poses for literacy integration
• Journaling pages to reflect on your practice

Learn and Move with our Yoga Cards

Learn five (5) yoga poses. Written for kids, each card comes with easy-to-follow illustrations and step-by-step instructions.  In this resource, the yoga cards come in two variations: one with instructions and another version without text, which is perfect for new readers and people that may have special needs.

This Autumn yoga deck is the perfect way to de-stress and share yoga and mindfulness with children!

Practice anywhere! Use this deck at home, school, park, or when traveling! Add to your peace corner, play yoga games, practice individual poses or as a full sequence. 

Add Mindfulness to your Routine

Research shows that mindfulness can improve executive functions in their brain like cognitive control, working memory, cognitive flexibility, and better grades.

We’ve added four (4) Autumn mindfulness activities to teach your children how to manage their emotions and be present. These Fall-themed activities will get your kids excited about the changing seasons while developing their own mindfulness practice.

Also included are five (5) coloring pages of the poses so kids can mindfully color while learning the poses and a journal so they can reflect on their practice.

The Autumn Sequence is a 34-page PDF download which you can view on your phone, tablet, computer or print out onto paper. We recommend cutting out each card and taping/gluing on a 4x6 index card or card stock. For added durability, laminate each card.

How to have better mornings is a yoga and mindfulness lesson plan that you can repeat over and over.

With breathing, mindfulness, and yoga poses, start your day off on the right side of the bed (or classroom)

Learn heart-opening poses with our love and compassion yoga coloring pages

This 7-page coloring book features six (6) yoga coloring pages from our Love and Compassion Yoga Sequence. Your kids will love mindfully coloring while learning yoga!

Poses featured are:

• Bow
• Camel
• Cobra
• Locust
• Triangle
• Reverse Warrior

Looking for our yoga cards?

Find these poses and more in our Love and Compassion Yoga Sequence for Tweens/Teens

Love and Compassion Yoga Coloring Pages is a 7 page PDF download that you can view on your phone, tablet, computer or print to paper.