Mindfulness Workbook for Kids: 60+ Activities to Focus, Stay Calm, and Make Good Choices

Big Feelings, Gentle Tools 🌿

Mindfulness Workbook for Kids meets children where they are: curious, energetic, sometimes worried, and still learning how to name what they feel. Hannah Sherman, LCSW, turns mindfulness into something hands-on—60+ activities that invite kids to breathe, notice, draw, move, and reflect rather than sit still and be quiet.

The workbook begins with two letters: one for kids and one for grown-ups. That opening sets the tone. Children get direct, friendly guidance. Parents, teachers, and counselors get context for supporting the practice without turning it into a performance.

What Children Will Explore

Across nine chapters, the activities build a toolkit for everyday life, from waking up with intention to settling down at night.

• The Building Blocks of Mindfulness: check-ins, breath awareness, body scans, and sensory noticing.
• Prepare for the Day Ahead: intentions, confidence, gratitude, and morning routines.
• Find Your Focus: attention exercises using sound, mirrors, walks, and doodling.
• Get to Know Your Feelings: naming emotions, exploring intensity, and belly breathing.
• Work with Your Worries: stress signals, worry bubbles, squeezing and releasing, and nervousness.
• Stay Calm in Tough Situations: grounding, positive reframing, and calming color.
• Make Your Best Decision: reacting versus responding, anger affirmations, and choosing a pathway.
• Show Kindness, Compassion, and Empathy: kind wishes, helping hands, and thank-you notes.
• End Your Day Strong: soothing breath, moon mantra, stretching, and body scan.

More Than Quiet Sitting 🧘

The exercises are varied on purpose. Some ask kids to tune in to a song, walk outside, shake out tension, or spin a wheel. Others use drawing, color, and writing. That mix matters because mindfulness for children often works best when it is active, visual, and playful.

Skills like belly breathing and body scans are presented as tools children can return to, not one-time tasks. The workbook also includes resources for kids and for parents, teachers, and counselors, so support can continue beyond a single activity.

Who It’s For

This is a workbook for children who are learning to handle worries, focus their attention, and make thoughtful choices. It can be used independently by young readers, alongside a caring adult, in counseling sessions, or in classroom calm-down corners. The language is clear and encouraging, and the activities are designed to be low-pressure.

Grown-ups do not need a meditation background. The book explains how to use the workbook on an ebook device and gives adults enough structure to guide without hovering.

Start with One Breath ✨

Mindfulness is a practice, not a test. With 60+ activities to choose from, children can begin with the page that feels most inviting—maybe a breathing exercise, maybe a doodle, maybe a thank-you note. Over time, those small moments can become a familiar way to meet big feelings with curiosity and kindness.