Description
This Body Scan Meditation for Kids is a quick and effective mindfulness activity to help your students with stress and overwhelming emotions. The worksheets and MP3 audio exercise will guide them and you on how to get in touch with your physical sensations and emotions to help calm the body.
The 5 minute MP3 audio track and the 8 page PDF digital document will be available electronically immediately following payment.
How Does the Body Scan Meditation for Kids Work?
Body scan relaxation exercises can teach you how to listen to your body and to respond mindfully rather than reactively. They can also help you learn to focus your attention on the present moment.
It helps us become more aware to the internal messages that our body such as our emotions, tension in our muscles, or hunger pains in our bellies.
This children’s guided body scan script includes the 5 minute peaceful audio MP3 ready to go – you just have to hit play.
The accompanying black and white worksheets included help you to teach the skills:
- 2 worksheets to identify how your body and emotions feel before and after the body scan
- 3 worksheets to touch or focus on various body parts
When Should You Use the Body Scan Mediation for Kids?
To start out, follow the directions in the PDF packet and the MP3 audio guided mediation to teach your students how you are going to be doing a body scan.
Once you learn how to do a body scan you can use it anytime or anywhere – perhaps before a big test, to calm yourself when stressed, or before you fall asleep at night.
What Skills Are Your Students Working on with this Mindfulness Body Scan for Kids?
- identifying emotions
- recognizing internal, physical sensations in your body
- stress reduction
- body awareness
- focused concentration
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