Free ACT Materials
for Children
Discover free resources designed to help children build essential life skills through fun, engaging activities. From printable worksheets like the “Thank You, Mind” exercise to interactive guides, each tool supports emotional growth, mindfulness, and resilience. Perfect for parents, teachers, and caregivers to use in everyday moments.
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Noticing Adventure Cards: Tiny Steps to Big Calm
The Noticing Adventure Cards Bundle invites children to gently explore their senses through playful prompts and creative activities. It’s designed to help kids (and grown-ups!) slow down, build emotional awareness, and discover calm in tiny, joyful moments.
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Tree Ring Breathing – A Mindful Grounding Activity
Help your child feel calm, focused, and grounded with this free printable from our Tree Ring Growth Circles series. This 2-page mindful breathing activity uses the rhythm of tree rings to guide children in connecting with their breath and expressing inner calm through art.
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Mindful Self-Care for Kids
This activity introduces children to simple self-care practices that support emotional well-being. With engaging prompts, reflection exercises, and a creative drawing activity, children explore how mindfulness can be incorporated into everyday life. They’ll learn how small actions—like breathing deeply, moving their bodies, or spending time in nature—can help them feel calm, focused, and connected.
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Partner Coloring with Thought Clouds
This activity encourages children and caregivers to work together to explore and let go of tricky thoughts through creative coloring. By drawing thought clouds and naming emotions, kids learn to identify and release their feelings in a playful, supportive way. It's a simple yet powerful introduction to mindfulness and emotional awareness.
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"Can You Notice Like Micah?"
"Can You Notice Like Micah?" is a playful, printable 5-senses game that helps kids slow down, spark curiosity, and connect with the present moment. Perfect for the car, backyard, or bedtime — no email or prep required, just print and play!
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Figure Eight Breathing Exercise
A simple, soothing breathing exercise for kids and adults. Take a deep breath in… and let it out. This calming exercise helps regulate emotions, reduce stress, and bring focus to the present moment. By tracing the glowing figure-eight path, you create a steady, rhythmic breathing pattern that promotes relaxation.
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Light Leaf Thoughts: Defusion Card Set
This activity helps children learn defusion skills through fun and interactive exercises. Kids can practice noticing and letting go of their sticky and tricky thoughts and emotions through storytelling, matching, and role-playing, just like Delaney the Duck!
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Explore Your Senses with Micah
This brief playful mindfulness activity helps children connect to the present moment through their five senses. Guided by Micah the Macaw, kids explore what they see, hear, touch, smell, and taste using gentle prompts and whimsical illustrations. With space to reflect and draw, this printable encourages calm, creativity, and mindful noticing—one sense at a time.
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What Should They Do?” - Mini Stories For Exploring Big Feelings
This gentle, story-based activity helps children pause, recognize their feelings, and choose their next step with care. Through five illustrated mini-stories, kids explore big emotions with frustration, worry, and embarrassment while considering helpful responses. It's a simple, engaging way to build emotional awareness and decision-making skills through relatable moments.
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The Mystery
Sensory Box
This hands-on activity helps children build curiosity and sensory awareness through mindful touch. Using a mystery box filled with textured objects, kids are guided to explore, describe, and reflect on what they feel. By slowing down and noticing details, they strengthen mindfulness skills like focus, patience, and self-regulation in a playful way.
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"Thank You, Mind:" Letting Go of Sticky Thoughts
Inspired by Finn’s sticky gum adventure, this worksheet helps children learn to notice and manage "sticky thoughts" in a fun and engaging way. Using a bubble gum metaphor, it guides kids through spotting a challenging thought, thanking their mind for it, and imagining letting it go creatively. This playful activity encourages mindfulness and builds emotional resilience in a way that’s both relatable and enjoyable.
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