Free Mindfulness & ACT Activities for Children
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Discover free mindfulness and ACT resources to help children build emotional awareness and resilience through fun, engaging activities. From printable worksheets like "Thank You, Mind" to creative guides and story-inspired tools, each activity supports calm, curiousity, and connection.
💡Perfect for parents, teachers, and therapists to use in everyday moments.
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Making Space: Acceptance Cards for Kids
One Tiny Step: Committed Action Cards help children learn how to keep going — one small step at a time. Each card offers a gentle scenario and encouraging language that supports trying again, starting small, and showing up even when things feel uncomfortable. With soft visuals and reflection prompts, kids build courage and perseverance, while parents model growth without pressure. These cards gently teach Committed Action — choosing effort, values, and bravery over perfection.
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Seeing the Bigger Picture: Balancing Life’s Beautiful & Hard Moments
The Seeing the Bigger Picture: Life’s Beautiful & Hard Moments resource expands on the first Seeing the Bigger Picture guide, moving beyond everyday worries to also explore life’s more serious and tragic events. With supportive activities like coloring pages, practice cards, and creative reflections, each page offers a gentle way to notice “this moment is not the whole story.” Alongside child-friendly practices, parents are given suggestions for introducing and navigating deeper conversations about loss, tragedy, and resilience — helping families hold both hurt and hope.
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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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Take it a step further with our 16-page expanded bundle, Noticing Adventure Cards: Tiny Steps to Big Calm. It includes even more playful prompts, calming visuals, and reflection pages to help your child build mindfulness and emotional awareness—one gentle step at a time.
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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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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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Following What Matters: Values Cards for Kids
The Following What Matters Values Cards help children discover and choose who they want to be — even when feelings get in the way. Each card pairs a real-life scenario with gentle wording that teaches, “I can choose kindness, courage, honesty, or care — even when it’s hard.” Through simple phrases, soft imagery, and reflection prompts, kids learn that values aren’t about being perfect, but about trying again with heart. Parents gain an easy way to start meaningful conversations and model living by what matters. Together, these cards nurture the core of Values — guiding children to grow thoughtful, brave, and true to themselves.
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Help your child explore their values even more deeply with our 23-page Expanded Pack, Following What Matters: The Values Cards Expanded Pack.
Inside you’ll find 12 all-new values cards, guided reflection activities, child-friendly metaphors, creative practices, and parent support tools. So many ways to help your kids learn how to choose kindness, courage, honesty, patience, and more—even when feelings get loud.
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Self-as-Context Cards:
Seeing the Bigger You
The Self-as-Context Cards invite kids to see themselves as more than one thought or feeling. With calming metaphors like ripples, ponds, and skies, each card offers a gentle reminder that “I am bigger than this moment.” Simple practices, playful visuals, and reflective mantras help children (and parents!) pause, zoom out, and find steadiness together — building perspective and presence in everyday life.
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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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Discover our 10-page expanded bundle, Big Feelings, Brave Choices, featuring more stories, more friends, and more ways to create a calming toolbox kit with your child!
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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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Making Space: Acceptance Cards for Kids
The Making Space Acceptance Cards help children practice welcoming all their feelings — even the tough ones — with kindness and courage. Each card pairs a gentle emotion-based scenario with mindful language that teaches, “It’s okay to feel this.” Through simple phrases, soft imagery, and reflection prompts, kids learn to notice their emotions without pushing them away, while parents gain an easy way to model emotional openness and co-regulation. Together, these cards nurture the heart of Acceptance — making room for every feeling so kids can grow steady, compassionate, and brave.
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Steady Steps Cards
The Steady Steps Cards offer simple, child-friendly prompts to help kids pause, steady, and take gentle steps toward calm. With playful phrases, relatable visuals, and easy mini-practices, they guide children (and parents!) to navigate big feelings together — building self-regulation skills in everyday moments.
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Take it a step further with our 30+ page expanded bundle, Steady Steps Cards: Gentle Phrases for Big Feelings. It includes even more steady routines, calming prompts, playful activities, and reflection tools to help your child practice co-regulation, mindfulness, and emotional resilience—one steady step at a time.
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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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Discover our 10-page Expanded Bundle, featuring growth trackers, emotional prompts, and nature-inspired reflection tools.
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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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"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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