If you’re looking for mindfulness tools for kids, we’ve put together a gift guide with products that promote mindfulness in children but that are fun and educational too. All are, of course, from local businesses in Canada.
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MINDFULNESS GIFTS FOR KIDS
Mindfulness Tools For Kids: Kids Gratitude Journal
Gratitude journals have become quite popular for adults over the years but they’re also a great tool to help kids learn to express gratitude through a daily journalling practice. Journals Of Discovery has created a kids gratitude journal that is a wonderful mindfulness tool for kids.
Affirmation Cards For Kids: Mindfulness Tools
Local Toronto shop, Cherry Pick Co., has affirmation cards for kids that have a unique twist – they’re also matching cards! You can practice mindfulness and recite positive affirmations while also working on your memory.
The affirmation cards from Love Powered Co are based on affirmations promoting positive self-talk, confidence, self-love and self worth. They have a box set of affirmation cards available (digital and print versions) for kids and one for teens. Each card highlights a power, such as ‘love’ or ‘brilliance’, affirmations to go with it and discussion questions.
Natural Play Dough
Little Larch is a local Calgary shop that creates natural play dough sensory kits for kids or as they like to call it ‘potions’. This is such a fun way for kids to play and use their imaginations and never ask for their tablets!
Hand Knit Dolls
These hand-knit dolls are made by women artisans in Peru but the Canadian family of 5 that runs Cuddle + Kind provides 10 meals to children in need from the sale of each one.
I Am Fearless Kids Book
I Am Fearless is a kid’s book by authors Apryl Dawn and Amanda Cottrell that helps show kids how they can discover their own inner superhero by connecting to their inner calm and balance.
- For more book ideas, check out our Children’s Book shopping guide
Mindfulness is the art of bringing awareness to the present moment. It’s the ability to quiet the mind and bring awareness and acceptance to our thoughts and feelings.
Feels peaceful, doesn’t it?
Now add kids to the mix – unpredictable toddlers, rambunctious grade schoolers, erratic teenagers … Still feeling peaceful?
At first glance, mindfulness and children would seem completely at odds but children are really at the perfect age for embracing the principles of mindfulness with their impressionable minds and openness to learning new things.
Education, health and parenting experts too recognize that mindfulness is a valuable lifelong skill that can help children navigate our modern world.
Today’s culture of materialism doesn’t make it easy though, the urge to have seems unavoidable (it only takes one birthday party with loot bags to feel hopeless about it). In this kind of environment, being mindful – of what we have and what we think and feel about it, is harder to do. Especially during the holidays where, despite our best intentions, the quantity of gifts (and the pleading for them) often trumps quality.
The mindfulness tools for kids that we feature here will help bring your child back to the present moment and help set a positive intention for the day.
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