Teach the basics about emotions: how to feel them in their bodies, talk about them to others, all to increase a kids’ emotional intelligence.

Provides brief descriptions of how long activities should be for each age group, and details a variety of activities to teach body awareness, calm and kindness.

Help the little lil’ ones learn to listen. Use the parts of their body to engage in listening to teacher and to one another.

A sweet, to-the-point book written by a psychologist about why it is important to be kind and how we can show kindness.

Framed in the context of the popular story, the Very Hungry Caterpillar, this book mentions our “monkey mind,” counting the breath, feeling anxiety, and more.

Cute book that cues to listen to external stimuli and invites kids to turn inward to listen.

Teach littles (age 2-4) how to experience the Fall season with our senses, and to notice how change can bring about big emotions.

Longer story for kids age 5+ to teach how change can be hard and we may experience emotions in response, but change can also be beautiful.

Fun, tactile tool to show a physical representation of breathing in and out.

Dance & use them to get their wiggles out. Put them over their eyes/head in savasana to see the world through a different perspective. Or have kids throw them overhead and use their big exhales to play “keepy uppy.”

Blowing bubbles requires big, slow exhales through pursed lips (like the pranayama crow’s or straw’s breath.

Textured and big enough to not be swallowed, kids’ worry stones are a great way to teach about the senses and be used as a source for calm.

I like this specific deck because it has kid-friendly names for lots of solo and partner poses, plus adjectives describing a possible feeling in each, and instructions for how to enter them.

Have your little place a weighted stuffie on their belly in savasana and view how stuffie moves up and down with their breath. Encourages breath awareness and belly breathing if you instruct them to push the stuffy up as much as possible.

Seems obvious enough, but giving kids dedicated space to do yoga will enforce a routine and encourage proprioceptive skills.

Slowing down a instructional song like “head, shoulders, knees & toes” or associating a song like “I’m a little teapot” with a pose like triangle or side angle, is a fun way to teach asana and body awarness.