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Brain Breaks

About this printable

These BRAIN BREAKS are a great addition to your home, classroom, or calm corner toolkit. The brain break cards cover a variety of emotional regulation strategies such as; positive self-talk, naming our emotions, using our senses to self-regulate, breathing exercises, grounding exercises, and more!

Whether you or your kids need energizers or calm down cards, these cards cover it all. The self-regulation tools help to identify the most effective calming strategy. Looking for more calming strategies and printables? Then you will enjoy this post: The Best Calm Down Choice Free Printable.

Best way to learn which calming technique is most effective for a given moment:

• Notice how you feel before starting the activity
• Do the activity
• Afterward, check in with yourself. How do you feel now?

Observing these changes, you will get better and better at knowing what you need and making the choice that is best for you. Guide your children in this process.

These brain breaks are great for elementary students, middle school, high school, and even young adults. What am I saying? Even us old people will absolutely benefit from them 🙂

Feel free to join the children with these activities and ENJOY!

Disclaimer: Colors might vary slightly based on the computer and printer you print from.

 

General Shop info 

Looking for self-awareness activities for kids? In this shop, you will find self-awareness PDF and ESL worksheets for kids that you can print and use at home or in the classroom. These activities include stress reduction techniques, body awareness activities, self-awareness games for students, and much more! Emotional regulation strategies are incredibly helpful tools to navigate life. For children and adults.

These worksheets and printables are created with EAL and ESL learners in mind. Multilingual learners have different needs, and my goal is to create resources that are more accessible to them. I do this by making it visual and using easier language than resources geared to natives. Many of these will have options or suggestions for using home languages to aid learning.

In addition, the yellow text background and the interline between sentences being 2, helps children with dyslexia. Based on research, including this study on background colors and dyslexia.

First, I suggest doing these exercises with the child(ren) in English and their home language(s). Mirror what to do. Then, when they want to do it autonomously, the visuals will make it much easier to recognize the activity and know what to do.

If you have any requests, or ideas to make it even easier and fun for you, please reach out to me and I’ll see what I can do!