Anxious Coral Breathing Exercises for Kids Activity Worksheets (4-6 Year Olds)

By / November 8, 2023 / 4-6 Year Olds, Growth Mindset Activities, Kids Activities, Printables & Worksheets

Just like adults, kids experience anxiety, and as parents and educators, we need to equip our children with knowledge and tips on how to cope anxiety. With the help of the anxious coral, we’re going to teach breathing exercises for kids to help with anxiety in a fun activity that they will love.

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Anxious Coral Breathing Exercises for Kids Activity Worksheets (4-6 Year Olds)

FREE PRINTABLE WORKSHEETS FOR KIDS

Make sure to click the link below to download and print the fishes printables for the breathing exercises for kids activity.

Free printable fishes in the sea worksheets for kids

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Experiencing anxiety is a common feeling in human beings that is directly related to fear and dread. That usually happens when people face unfamiliar situations, a significant load of obligations (work, school, family, or even kindergarten). These emotions also appear when we must make an important decision, so it is entirely natural to feel anxiety at some point in life. We must consider that this is not a daily condition; otherwise, it could become a pathology.

When anxiety does not disappear over the days, it has become so intense that it even interferes with the performance of daily tasks. It means that it has already become a pathology known as Anxiety Disorder. This disease is also suffered by children, although it can be difficult for many parents to believe this disease could manifest in a child. It is imperative to manage it in time to prevent it from becoming an uncontrollable snowball.

Children can successfully overcome this disease by applying strategies to help them for the rest of their lives. However, the accompaniment and guidance of an adult in this process are essential. As a first step, children must acquire two skills of great importance: solving problems and self-control.

The first tool that can help children control their anxiety is breathing. During this exercise, you can explain to children how the air gets into their bodies and travels through it to get out again.

The second tool is to help children identify those negative thoughts. Once identified, they can assign a different role to these thoughts and then draw them. Children must find an alternative to their negative thoughts.

For example, if they think, “I will never be able to do it,” the alternative thought would be, “If I try hard, I will make it.” The third tool is to help children imagine pleasant scenarios in which they can be aware of what they feel in their bodies when they live those enjoyable experiences. Finally, they can socialize about the good things they experienced during the day.

You must motivate children to express their feelings and face them; this is the only way to overcome everything that affects them. Children should feel that they can always count on your love, understanding, and support. That will help them overcome their fears and anguish and lead happy life.

Anxious coral breathing exercises for kids to cope with anxiety.

THEME: BREATHING EXERCISES FOR KIDS TO COPE WITH ANXIETY

HOW DO WE DO THIS ACTIVITY?

Topic: Anxiety

Age: 4-6-year-old children

Goal: Through these breathing exercises for kids activity children, will learn to control their breathing, which is ideal for strengthening their self-control.

Difficulty level: Advanced. This breathing exercise activity is designed to be done autonomously by children, always under adult surveillance.

Skills:

  • Recognizing emotions
  • Recognition of their body
  • Precision in small muscle movements
  • Self-esteem
  • Trust
  • Self-control
  • Breath management
  • Self-reliance
  • Confidence
  • Focus

MATERIALS

Materials Anxious Coral Activity. $-steps breathing exercises for kids
  • Three fishes – red, yellow, and green (previously colored and secured to a popsicle stick)
  • A basket
  • Pom-poms
  • Three pieces of toilet paper
  • Two cardboard tubes
  • A whistle

ACTIVITY DEVELOPMENT

(ADULT SUPERVISION)

Step 1:

The color of each fish will indicate the action that children will take:

Inhale – yellow

Exhale – green

Stop – red

Anxious Coral kids Activity

Step 2:

Exhale and make a sound with the whistle.

make a sound with the whistle

Step 3:

Children must blow the paper toilet as much as they can, according to the color of the fishes.

blow the paper toilet

Step 4:

Put the pom-poms into the cardboard tube. Children must blow as much as possible to move the pom-pom and push it into the basket with their breath.

Put the pom-poms into the cardboard tube

ACTIVITY RESULT

Breathing exercises for kids to help cope and control children’s anxiety.

Anxious Coral Breathing Exercises for Kids Activity

HOW TO DEVELOP THIS BREATHING EXERCISES FOR KIDS ACTIVITY WITH CHILDREN OF OTHER AGES?

CHANGES FOR CHILDREN UNDER 4 YEARS OLD

You can do this breathing exercises for kids activity with younger children. To reduce the difficulty level, children will take a bubbler and make soap bubbles. They can also use a straw to move paper worms. In this way, children will carry out a breathing exercise activity appropriate to their development and abilities.

CHANGES FOR CHILDREN OVER 6 YEARS OLD

You can do this breathing exercise activity with older children. To increase the difficulty level and make the exercise more attractive for children, you can draw a maze on a flat surface. Children will move a pom-pom only by blowing. In this way, children will carry out a kid exercise appropriate to their development and abilities.

VIDEO DESCRIPTION – THE ANXIOUS CORAL BREATHING EXERCISES FOR KIDS

In this breathing exercises for kids video, you will find the step-by-step of the “THE ANXIOUS CORAL” activity, designed for 4 to 6-year-old children. Here they must control their breathing to be able to move the different objects and blow the whistle.

This breathing exercise is ideal for children to be aware of their breathing and allows them to reduce anxiety. The activity will allow children to develop skills such as recognizing emotions, recognizing their body, precision in small muscle movements, self-esteem, trust, self-control, breath management, self-reliance, confidence, and focus.

The materials they will need are three fishes – red, yellow, green (previously made), a basket, pom-poms, three pieces of toilet paper, two cardboard tubes, and a whistle. (Adult supervision)

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