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Mindful Coloring: A Simple Practice with Big Benefits for Kids

Mindful Coloring: A Simple Practice with Big Benefits for Kids

by Jaime Andrews | Aug 28, 2025 | Benefits of Yoga, Craft, Educators, Meditation, Parents/Caregivers, Yoga Activities, Yoga at Home, Yoga in Schools

Coloring isn’t just a fun art activity—it can also be a powerful mindfulness tool for children. It’s engaging and enjoyable for kids of all ages, giving everyone a chance to slow down, choose their colors, and carefully fill in shapes. When kids focus in this way, they naturally shift their attention into the present moment. This gentle focus helps calm busy minds, reduces stress, and supports emotional regulation while offering a creative outlet for self-expression.

Mindful March

Mindful March

by Amanda James | Mar 1, 2023 | Benefits of Yoga, Breathing, Craft, Educators, Karma Yoga, Meditation, Parents/Caregivers, Props, Science of Yoga, Uncategorized, Yoga Activities, Yoga at Home, Yoga in Schools, Yoga/Fitness Professionals

We've all heard about the benefits of meditation practice, but how do we start, especially with kiddos? Kidding Around Yoga is here to help! We've created this 30-day MEDITATION CALENDAR to provide you and your family (or your school classroom) with a daily meditation...

A Love Letter … to Yourself

by Heather Ruggieri | Sep 5, 2022 | Asanas, Benefits of Yoga, Craft, Meditation, The Joy of Teaching, Yoga Activities, Yoga at Home

Who says that you have to wait for Valentine's Day to show someone love (yourself included)? And what better way to introduce the concept of self-love to children than through a yoga class? In whatever time frame you have, you can incorporate a theme of self-love (and...

The Art of Mindfulness

The Art of Mindfulness

by Amanda James | Aug 4, 2022 | Benefits of Yoga, Breathing, Craft, Meditation, Yoga Activities, Yoga at Home

Pay attention! You need to focus! Can't you just concentrate? Sound familiar? Have you heard or said these things before? Yeah, me too. We probably all have. It seems we all need help once in a while being mindful. Mindfulness is simply paying attention to what is...

Kids Yoga at the Beach

by Amanda James | Jun 30, 2022 | Breathing, Craft, The Joy of Teaching, Yoga Activities

I love the beach! My favorite thing to do is to go to the beach. The ocean, the breezy air, the warm sand, and the bright sun in the sky… being at the beach is blissful. Now add some yoga to a beautiful beach day, and there is nothing better than that. Yoga at the...

Full-Blown Pranayama Putt-Putt

Full-Blown Pranayama Putt-Putt

by Chris McCooey | Jun 13, 2022 | Benefits of Yoga, Breathing, Craft, Parents/Caregivers, Props, The Joy of Teaching, Yoga Activities, Yoga at Home, Yoga/Fitness Professionals

I grew up loving miniature golf. My grandparents have had a camper at Alleghany Mountain Resort at Rainbow Lake since my mother and her brothers and sister were young enough to enjoy the fresh air and open spaces. Much of summer’s free time was spent with aunts,...

Reuse Those Plastic Eggs!

by Amanda James | Apr 18, 2022 | Benefits of Yoga, Craft, Yoga Activities, Yoga at Home, Yoga in Schools

It's that time of year, again. The Easter Bunny has come and gone, leaving tons (literally tons) of plastic eggs behind. Rather than throwing the plastic eggs away to inevitably end up in a landfill or in the stomach of a bird or critter, let's yoga-fy the eggs with...

Little Yogi’s Spring Cleaning: Saucha

Little Yogi’s Spring Cleaning: Saucha

by Jacquie Bullard | Mar 24, 2022 | Asanas, Benefits of Yoga, Craft, Parents/Caregivers, Philosophy, Yoga Activities, Yoga at Home

Saucha, or purity, is one of the key ideas Patanjali wrote about in the Yoga Sutras. It is vital in clearing the mind and creating a strong, healthy body. Most kids are probably not concerned with purity, especially when making messes is so much more fun! Of course,...

Spring Equinox Yoga Celebration

Spring Equinox Yoga Celebration

by Leslie Gossett | Mar 14, 2022 | Asanas, Benefits of Yoga, Craft, Meditation, Parents/Caregivers, Props, Yoga Activities, Yoga at Home

Have you been noticing the daffodils making their buttery appearance? Or the mama birds already sitting on their nests? Perhaps the first bud sprouting on the branch? These signs of spring herald the Vernal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere. This year, Spring Equinox...

Mala Beads and Meditation for the Family

by Amanda James | Mar 3, 2022 | Benefits of Yoga, Breathing, Craft, Meditation, Parents/Caregivers, Philosophy, Props, Yoga Activities, Yoga at Home, Yoga in Schools

Strings of beads used during prayer or meditation are an ancient and international tradition. In fact, the word “bead” actually means “prayer” in Middle English. Catholicism uses Rosary beads, Islam uses Subha and Tasbih beads, and Buddhism and Hinduism use Mala...

The Power of Peace Flags

by Amanda James | Jan 31, 2022 | Craft, Philosophy, The Joy of Teaching, Yoga Activities, Yoga at Home, Yoga in Schools

Tibetan Prayer Flags (sometimes called Peace Flags) are a 2000 year old tradition from Nepal. Called Lung ta, or “wind horse”, Prayer Flags originated when sacred texts were written on cloth banners. Traditionally, the flag is made of cloth torn into a rectangular...

Polar Bear Yoga

by hhorrell | Jan 24, 2022 | Asanas, Books, Breathing, Craft, Meditation, Yoga Activities

They are cute, fluffy, and super wintery, although you may not want to try to cuddle one! What are they? Polar bears, of course. Kids love learning about animals, especially these unique bears. A polar bear themed yoga class is the perfect opportunity to blend...

New Years Vision Boards for Kids and Teens

by Charney Engelbrecht | Jan 6, 2022 | Benefits of Yoga, Craft, The Joy of Teaching, Yoga Activities, Yoga at Home, Yoga in Schools

As we end off what for many has been a particularly challenging year we may question how we can enable our kids to look positively into the future and look forward to the rewards and challenges that a New Year holds. The art of manifestation tells us that we have to...

Light on Kids’ Sangha – Build a Community this Holiday Season

by Jacquie Bullard | Dec 6, 2021 | Benefits of Yoga, Craft, KAY Music, Philosophy, Yoga Activities

What is sangha? What is a sangha and how can we bring this element into kids’ yoga classes? Sangha is a community, specifically a spiritual community. The term began in the Buddhist tradition to refer to monastic communities and it is also used to refer to communities...

Celebrate ALL of the Winter Holidays!

by hhorrell | Dec 2, 2021 | Asanas, Benefits of Yoga, Books, Craft, KAY Music, The Joy of Teaching

One of the best ways to teach compassion and to build more empathetic kids is to re-frame the world from the perspective of the viewer. Children are naturally curious, open-minded, and flexible in regards to integrating new information and differences among people....

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