Mindfulness Activities - Fall Themed

These fall themed mindfulness activities will help your students to learn about what mindfulness is and how they can practice it. These activities use mindfulness techniques such as guided imagery, thorough reflection, awareness of thoughts and feelings, close observation and deep breathing. They are great for individual, small group or classroom lessons!

Bundle & Save: This resource is part of the Seasonal Mindfulness Activities Bundle!

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What's Included:

• Mindful Acorn Craftivity Students will create an acorn shaped foldable and
  answer the 3 prompts about what mindfulness is.

• Trick-Or-Treat Mindfulness Sort This activity includes 18 trick-or- treating
  scenarios that students will categorize as either mindful or not mindful.
  Students will create pockets for each category, cut out the scenario cards, and
  place in the corresponding pocket. Activity materials come in color and black
  and white.

• Where I Can Be Mindful File Book This file book encourages students to
  identify how they can practice mindfulness in 5 fall settings: trick-or-treating,
  carving pumpkins, at a football game, raking leaves, and picking apples. File
  book comes in color and black and white.

• Thanksgiving Food Mindfulness Cards This activity includes 32 task cards to
  encourage students to deeply reflect on how they experience various
  Thanksgiving foods. Students will identify what 8 foods taste like, smell like, feel
  like and look like. Cards come in color and black and white.

• Nature Walk/ Leaf Observation These two activities include recording sheets
  for a nature walk and for a leaf observation. In the nature walk, students will
  mindfully observe the world around them. For the leaf observation, students will
  carefully observe a fallen leaf, and record their findings.

• Fall Word Association Accordion Books Students will look at 6 fall themed
  words and identify the feelings and thoughts they associate with these words.
  Students will use accordion books that can be attached into an interactive
  notebook while practicing this mindfulness technique.

• My Favorite Fall Memory Flap Book Students will construct a flap book that
  encourages them to thoroughly reflect on a favorite fall memory. Students will
  practice mindfulness as they recall as many details as possible about the event
  and then draw a picture of the memory. These can be attached to an
  interactive notebook.

• What I Would Notice Students will consider 8 fall situations, and determine
  what these situations would be like using their five senses. Once the
  worksheets are completed, students can use them to play a guessing game.

• Additional Mindfulness Activities Includes the directions for 6 additional ways
  to practice mindfulness with your students. Each activity plan includes
  discussion questions to help guide the activity.

For more information on what is included, please see the preview!

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Ideas For Use:

• Mindfulness lessons or groups

• Self regulation lessons or groups

• Coping skills lessons or groups

• Morning meetings

• With students who could benefit from increased self control

• With students who could benefit from focusing on the present moment

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What People Are Saying About This Resource:

• Shawna said "Absolutely amazing resource. I really can't express how
  important I think a resource like this is in an elementary classroom. Support
  mindfulness. Highly recommend."

• Rosalynd said "This is an adorable set of activities for little ones to think about
  being mindful."

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