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Brain Breaks

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.

Supporting Multilingual & ESL Learners 

Looking for self-awareness activities for kids that build emotional intelligence, body awareness and language confidence? These printable ESL-friendly worksheets are designed with multilingual learners in mind: visual, accessible, and grounded in embodiment and emotional regulation.

As an embodiment coach and former international educator, I create resources that help children connect language, emotion, and body awareness in practical and inclusive ways. The visual design supports ESL and multilingual learners by showing each movement or reflection step clearly. Once modeled a few times, the illustrations act as memory cues so students can easily follow along independently.

Where possible, I also integrate features that support focus and readability, such as soft yellow backgrounds or 2.0 line spacing. These design choices are inspired by research on dyslexia and sensory-friendly learning, making the printables both engaging and inclusive.

You can model the activity together in English and their home language, then let kids explore independently once they recognize the flow, because real learning happens when children feel seen and understood.

Have ideas or requests? I’d love to hear from you!