Kids & Teens Guides
Activities to Share with Your Students ENTER YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS TO RECEIVE A SET OF ACTIVITIES AND WORKSHEETS AS A PRINTABLE PDF. As a thank you for all the amazing work you do as a teacher, we would like to offer you a set of free, interactive, and fun activities from The Little Frog Awakes, [...]
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Free Companion Guide Download Download this companion guide for questions to ask while reading The Monster Parade and several post reading activities that can be done at home or in the classroom. Intended to be used in conjunction with The Monster Parade by Wendy O’Leary, this guide will be an invaluable resource to educators, parents, [...]
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3 Mindfulness Exercises to Help Parents Manage the Lack of Control
A Light Touch for Setting Goals for Kids An excerpt from Chapter Six of Prizeworthy by Mitch Abblett, PhD With the children in our lives, and as hard as it may be, it is so important to shift our perspective away from trying to control them and control their daily situations and instead focus on [...]
Create a golden dragon twirler to send heartfelt wishes out into the world! For centuries, dragons have been represented in cultures throughout the world, though attitudes towards them differ. Chinese Emperors used the dragon as symbols of power, nobility, and divine descent for at least 6,000 years. We can find many dragons on furniture, clothing, [...]
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Activities to Share with Your Students ENTER YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS TO RECEIVE A SET OF ACTIVITIES AND WORKSHEETS AS A PRINTABLE PDF. As a thank you for all the amazing work you do as a teacher, we would like to offer you a set of free, interactive, and fun activities from The Mindful Kids Activity [...]
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Free Companion Guide Download Download this companion guide for ideas on how to use Happy Puppy, Angry Tiger, ways to read together, and three activities to practice expressing how you feel. Intended to be used in conjunction with Happy Puppy, Angry Tiger by Betsy and Brad Petersen, this guide will be an invaluable resource to educators, [...]
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Download a Coloring Page Color along with Happy Puppy, Angry Tiger! Download the How Are You Feeling? coloring page inspired by Betsy Petersen’s illustrations. The coloring page is available for download and printing for your personal use. To open the PDF in your web browser, please click the link or image below. DOWNLOAD THE COLORING [...]
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Free Companion Guide Download Download this companion guide to help you foster a supportive foundation for practicing yoga at home, in your classroom, or in your clinical practice. Intended to be used in conjunction with Little Yogi Deck by Crystal McCreary and illustrated by Andrea Pippins, this guide will be an invaluable resource to parents, [...]
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Download a Set of Coloring Pages Color along with Meditation Station! Download a set of coloring pages inspired by Anait Semirdzhyan’s illustrations. The coloring pages are available for download and printing for your personal use. To open the PDFs in your web browser, please click the link or images below. DOWNLOAD THE COLORING PAGES Meditation Station$16.95 [...]
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Activities to Share with Your Students ENTER YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS TO RECEIVE A SET OF ACTIVITIES AND WORKSHEETS AS A PRINTABLE PDF. As a thank you for all the amazing work you do as a teacher, we would like to offer you a set of free, interactive, and fun activities from The Monkey Mind Meditation [...]
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Khyentse Foundation Second Children’s Book Prize Winner Announced
Khyentse Foundation and Bala Kids are delighted to announce that Carol Dodd is the winner of this year’s Children’s Book Prize. Carol Dodd is a first-time author based in Hawai’i. She wrote a magical, lyrical children’s book on impermanence for ages 4–8, which will be published through Bala Kids in 2021. The central theme that [...]
Complementary Activities for Teachers & Caregivers by Christopher Willard and Wendy O’Leary Book & Activities are appropriate for children ages 3–6 Overview: Read aloud and breathe along with this sweet story teaching children how to navigate powerful and sometimes overwhelming emotions. The rhythmic writing, recurring cues, and engaging illustrations support early literacy skills as well [...]
Continue Reading >> Announcing the Second Khyentse Foundation Children’s Book Prize
Theme: Stories that Teach Foundational Buddhist Topics After a successful competition in 2017, Khyentse Foundation and Bala Kids are once again teaming up to offer the Khyentse Foundation Children’s Book Prize for best Buddhist children’s manuscript. Khyentse Foundation and Bala Kids have the shared vision to inspire and educate future generations about Buddhism and to [...]
Classroom Activity Download ENTER YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS TO RECEIVE A SET OF ACTIVITIES AND WORKSHEETS AS A PRINTABLE PDF. As a thank you for all the amazing work you do as a teacher, we would like to offer you a set of free, interactive, and fun activities from the Sitting Still Like a Frog Activity Book, [...]
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Free Activities Download from Sitting Still Like a Frog Activity Book
Sitting Still Like a Frog Activity Book ENTER YOUR EMAIL TO RECEIVE MINDFULNESS ACTIVITIES FROM SITTING STILL LIKE A FROG ACTIVITY BOOK AS A PRINTABLE PDF. Download these free, interactive, and fun activities from the Sitting Still Like a Frog Activity Book to introduce mindfulness to the kids in your life! Building on the mindfulness meditation [...]
Mindful Games Activity Cards: 55 Fun Ways to Share Mindfulness with Kids and Teens ENTER YOUR EMAIL TO RECEIVE 10 FREE ACTIVITY CARDS AS A PRINTABLE PDF. Bring mindfulness to your daily routine with Mindful Games Activity Cards, developed and tested over many years of working with children and their caregivers. This download includes the [...]
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Sitting Still Like a Frog$17.95 - PaperbackBy: Eline Snel Add to Cart Shambhala: How did you first become interested in teaching mindfulness to kids? Eline Snel: I led a training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) for a group of twelve principals at my local school board. They asked me to develop a training method for [...]
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What would you like to accomplish this year? Have you made New Year's resolutions to start meditating or pick up your practice again? To be more mindful with your children or adolescents? To mend a broken heart or learn to cook? To finally figure out your dosha, prioritize, or simply to relax? We at Shambhala [...]
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