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Sitting Still Like a Frog Activity Book: 75 Mindfulness Games for Kids
80 fun mindfulness games and activities to teach children ages 5-8 to calm themselves down, focus, be attentive to people around them, and to feel more peaceful.
Mindfulness is one of the most effective practices to teach kids to calm themselves in stressful moments, increase focus and attention, ease anxiety, and promote a sense of empathy toward others. Eline Snel's Sitting Still Like a Frog method of meditation has introduced hundreds of thousands of children worldwide to become more relaxed and attentive, more aware of their bodies and emotions, and to be more open toward others. This Sitting Still Like a Frog Activity Book is packed with entertaining and useful activities that children can do alone or with a parent, including yoga exercises for tuning into your body; art and cooking projects; stories to meditate on; posters to color and cards to cut out; stickers; attention games; love notes to share; the big family frog game; and much more!
Mindfulness is one of the most effective practices to teach kids to calm themselves in stressful moments, increase focus and attention, ease anxiety, and promote a sense of empathy toward others. Eline Snel's Sitting Still Like a Frog method of meditation has introduced hundreds of thousands of children worldwide to become more relaxed and attentive, more aware of their bodies and emotions, and to be more open toward others. This Sitting Still Like a Frog Activity Book is packed with entertaining and useful activities that children can do alone or with a parent, including yoga exercises for tuning into your body; art and cooking projects; stories to meditate on; posters to color and cards to cut out; stickers; attention games; love notes to share; the big family frog game; and much more!
- GenresNonfiction
100 pages, Paperback
Published April 9, 2019
About the author
Eline Snel
17 books44 followersEline Snel is a therapist and certified MBSR trainer and runs the Academy for Mindful Teaching in the Netherlands. She has been developing and teaching mindfulness-based courses for over twenty years and trains teachers to teach MBSR techniques to students. Her program has been used in numerous primary schools in the Netherlands. She has recently started a pilot project in various secondary schools to teach mindfulness practices to teenagers.
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March 22, 2020
If you are looking for a resource to help with mindfulness activities for kids ages 5-12 this is what you are looking for. This book could be used at home or in the classroom. It is simple, the language used in the activities is ideal and it will meet your needs.
The publisher made this book available on netgalley. The thoughts and opinions shared her are my honest review.
The publisher made this book available on netgalley. The thoughts and opinions shared her are my honest review.
April 22, 2019
I received a copy of this book in a Goodreads Giveaway.
This activity book is made for kids ages 4-8, and is related to a book/CD set with the same name. There is an accompanying audio download webpage with more materials. This book is full of a bunch of different activities, but they are made in a way that each one would be only interesting to do once, they are not ongoing activities. For example, there are coloring pages, and activities like look at a picture and count how many of the different animals there are. I know as a kid I would have liked this book, especially to keep me entertained on a long road trip or similar, but would not have been interested in it long-term.
This activity book is made for kids ages 4-8, and is related to a book/CD set with the same name. There is an accompanying audio download webpage with more materials. This book is full of a bunch of different activities, but they are made in a way that each one would be only interesting to do once, they are not ongoing activities. For example, there are coloring pages, and activities like look at a picture and count how many of the different animals there are. I know as a kid I would have liked this book, especially to keep me entertained on a long road trip or similar, but would not have been interested in it long-term.
May 1, 2019
"Sitting Still Like a Frog, Activity Book" is a must have for every family that would like to draw out and in the interpersonal health for children.
This is an amazing book filled with simple, yet thought provoking exercises to do with children. It is aligned with crafts, stories, and physical exercises promoting an exchange of mind and body awareness. This book is well done in illustration colors, short story content, cut outs, games, and posters. It is classically done, there is no outright agenda to this book other than promoting good sensible health for children and their family unit. As a Bonus: a media download of music included to do with some of the exercises. We love this book!
This is an amazing book filled with simple, yet thought provoking exercises to do with children. It is aligned with crafts, stories, and physical exercises promoting an exchange of mind and body awareness. This book is well done in illustration colors, short story content, cut outs, games, and posters. It is classically done, there is no outright agenda to this book other than promoting good sensible health for children and their family unit. As a Bonus: a media download of music included to do with some of the exercises. We love this book!
June 14, 2021
'Sitting Still Like a Frog Activity Book' is the perfect companion to, 'Sitting Still Like a Frog: Mindfulness Exercises for Kids.'
While the first book gives excellent advice on how to work through issues as the parent, the activity book lets the kids do the driving. They can pick and choose different poses while their grownup talks them through it and helps them understand why this movement and thinking process is important.
The two books are a wonderful pairing and I highly recommend purchasing both...
Thank you to NetGalley & Shambhala Publications, Inc. for the opportunity to read and review this book.
While the first book gives excellent advice on how to work through issues as the parent, the activity book lets the kids do the driving. They can pick and choose different poses while their grownup talks them through it and helps them understand why this movement and thinking process is important.
The two books are a wonderful pairing and I highly recommend purchasing both...
Thank you to NetGalley & Shambhala Publications, Inc. for the opportunity to read and review this book.
January 9, 2022
Get this as a physical book. I got it as an ebook ARC from NetGalley and loading the pages was So Slow. It took up to 5 minutes to load a page and it crashed by reading app several times.
Other than that, this was an okay book. The stories were fairly preachy. It reminded me more of an 1800s primer more than anything else.
An interesting book that really shoots at making mindfulness accessible to our younger generations. There are exercises and and accompanying music. A bit repetitive in places but a good place to start.
Other than that, this was an okay book. The stories were fairly preachy. It reminded me more of an 1800s primer more than anything else.
An interesting book that really shoots at making mindfulness accessible to our younger generations. There are exercises and and accompanying music. A bit repetitive in places but a good place to start.
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April 3, 2021Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss.
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