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5-4-3-2-1 Senses Scavenger Hunt Helps Calm & Ground

Lisa SadikmanMay 13, 2021

This 5 senses scavenger hunt helps the body and mind calm down and come into the present moment, especially when feeling scared, worried, anxious or stressed.

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Mindful Tea Practice Uses Senses to Calm

Marianne WhitfieldDecember 23, 2020

This mindful tea practice engages the senses to help us anchor in the moment. Using our senses is a simple way slow down, notice and be present.

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Blindfolded Fruit Tasting Game Sharpens Taste

Tanuka GordonDecember 9, 2020

For this sensory game, players use touch and taste to (literally) savor the moment. With the sense of sight temporarily switched off by a blindfold, the other senses are heightened, focusing...

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5 Senses Peace Book Cultivates Inner Peace

Lisa SadikmanDecember 4, 2020

Our 5 Senses Peace Book is a wonderful way to teach children how to cultivate peace for themselves. Mindfulness activities combined with art and a short breath practice plus positive affirmation will engage kids of all ages. 

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Our Most Popular Mindfulness & Kindness Activities

Lisa SadikmanOctober 2, 2020

As Mindful Littles celebrates four years of compassion in action, we wanted to share our most popular mindfulness activities and service & kindness projects with you. We hope you enjoy this mix of sensory activities, meditation, breath practice, nature, art and play!

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Make a Nature Paintbrush to Create Kindness Cards

Lisa SadikmanApril 23, 2020

Nature and art make perfect companions in this sensory outdoor project. First you’ll use your keen observation skills to collect natural materials outside. Next, you’ll use those items to create a Nature Paintbrush. Finally, you’ll paint beautiful Kindness Cards to send to people you love and care about. Let’s get started!

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Rainbow Walk: Sense of Sight Grounds Us

Tanuka GordonMarch 11, 2020

Taking a Rainbow Walk is a simple, fun way to practice mindfulness with Littles using our sense of sight. Focusing on the world through a single sense is a powerful way to anchor our awareness...

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Outdoor Sound Hunt: Sense of Hearing Anchors

Tanuka GordonOctober 4, 2019

An Outdoor Sound Hunt is exactly what it sounds like: you walk, hike or sit with your kiddos outside, stay (relatively) quiet and try to "hunt" or notice all the different sounds you hear. This...

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Noticing vs. Reacting: The Ice Cube Episode

Tanuka GordonAugust 8, 2017

One of my favorite pre-parenting stories is from a birthing course that my husband and I took before the birth of our first daughter.  Like many first-time parents, we had signed up to be...

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Spicy Sensory Game: Sense of Smell Focuses

Tanuka GordonApril 16, 2017

This smelly, spicy sensory game taps into the sense of smell to encourage presence in the moment. Adding a blindfold makes the game even more fun! When you're done, use the spices to create a cool...

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