Free Mindfulness & ACT Activities for Children
Click, explore, and download your free mindfulness and ACT resources. Each resource is designed to help children notice thoughts, feelings, and big moments with curiosity and care. From printable activities to story-inspired tools, explore what connects with your child, return to favorites, and come back whenever you're ready to try something new..
🐾 Want one more free adventure? Visit Finn's Forest Trail, where children can explore two mindful stops and search for hidden paw prints along the path. Start Finn's trail, or explore more free tools below.
Explore gentle tools that help children practice calming skills, emotional awareness, and steady steps through everyday moments. Try them together at first, return to the ones your child connects with, and let familiar activities become more independent over time. There's no need to use everything at once, different tools may fit at different times and ages.
🪨 Looking for a simple guide for everyday moments? Visit the free Steady Steps Tool to explore gentle, practical ways to support children through big feelings, worries, and difficult moments.
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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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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Big feelings, sticky thoughts, and hard moments are all part of being human. And emotional growth doesn’t happen all at once. Through playful reflection, calming exercises, and gentle practice, these resources help children build awareness, flexibility, and confidence — one steady step at a time.
🌿 Looking for ideas for the grown-ups, too? Explore our Free Parent Resources for gentle ACT-informed printables, reflection guides, and practical tools designed to support parents, caregivers, educators, and therapists.
🌿 A Little More Support for the Grown-Ups
The free newsletter is a quieter space for parents and caregivers who want to keep thinking about these moments together. Each month includes practical ideas, reflections from my work with children and families, and a Parent Reflection Corner — a little space to notice your own experience, too.
Subscribers also receive a Subscriber Corner with something extra to explore or try, along with occasional first looks at new Mindful Living Resources and Acceptance Acres projects.
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