Calm kit

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Calm kit

Calm kit

In this presentation each partner has suggested activities, music, ideas etc for creating this calm kit.

These resources can be used in the classroom to:

• help create a calm and pleasant enviroment
• help maintain calmness and concetration
• control group and individual emotions
• reduce anxiety and stress
• help change behavior

• teach self-analysis and self-control
• mentally prepare the child or group for a certain task

EXPANDABLE BALL, CALMING BREATHING BALL FOR KIDS

EBI Praia da Vitória, Margarida Paim, Azores-Portugal

Relax and calm your mind and body with this breathing ball technique that is designed to bring the body into a state of deep relaxation. Great as a visual aid for breathing exercises for children and adults. Also used for Yoga. How It Works - Hold the ball in front of your belly, take a deep breath as you expand the ball, exhale slowly as you contract the ball.

Katya Mincheva, kindergarten "Prikazka" city of Varna, Bulgaria

This relaxed game is a favorite of three-year-olds. There are pictures on the floor depicting children playing calmly - drawing, playing with cubes, arranging puzzles ... The children first caress their friend's hair, and then sit on the chairs and move their toes.

Calm Game

Ana Mª Teixeira, Santão Kindergarten, AELixa / Portugal

Soap bubbles

This is a fun activity that works for both toddlers and slightly older children. With babies, you can blow soap bubbles around the little one, so he gets distracted by the colors and bubbles falling apart and ends up forgetting to cry. The older ones can blow the bubbles themselves, taking a deep breath and thus calming down.

Pot of Calm

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Lurdes Ferreira , Lixa Kindergarten, AELixa - Portugal

• 1 glass jar or bottle with lid
• 1 or 2 tablespoons of glitter glue
• 3 or 4 teaspoons of glitter
• 1 drop of food coloring
• Hot water

The goal is to distract them with the paint and glitter moving around inside the container. So they focus on the glass, turn their attention to the effect, and have time to breathe and calm down.

Emine Şahin-İtu-Turkey

Yoga video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KS6EPE45nA

YOGA ACTIVITY

• Yoga helps children manage their anxiety
• Yoga improves children’s emotional regulation.
• Yoga boosts children’s self-esteem.
• Yoga increases children’s body awareness and mindfulness.
• Yoga enhances children’s concentration and memory.
• Yoga develops children’s strength and flexibility.
• Yoga teaches discipline and reduces impulsivity.

Nature

Nature helps us calm down. Let's cuddle a tree, listen to the rumbling of water or just be in nature. Nature is harmony and tranquility.Aušra ŽemaitienėLithuania. Kretinga

Nefeli Fragkiadaki Kindergarden of Sfaka

Yoga

We learn to calm our selfs with yoga positions!!

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Our calm kit

• Many toys that makes us calm down
• Breath in and breath out
• Stories to read
• calm ball that we can squeeze it
• Count down until number five

Calming StrategiesEvanthia Panayi Cyprus

• Calming strategy 1 Pizza Breathing : The children put their hands in front of their face. They close their eyes. They smell the pizza – breathing in. and then help the pizza to cool down blowing on- breathing softly out.
• Calming strategy 2 Magic Moustache: The children put their finger, like a moustache and press press right under the nose and calmly count to ten in their heads.
• Calming strategy 3 Quite Lap :The children sit crisscross with their hands over their eyes. They tuck their chin in and just relax for a minute. They can take a couple of deep breaths in and out. While they are doing this the teacher talks to them calmly and tell them that their body is calming down and feeling looser and relaxed.
• Calming strategy 4 Self Hug:Children stand up and give themselves a hug and they kind of squeeze their shoulders and put some nice pressure on their body and they take a couple of deep breaths in and out. If possible, they can cross their legs also.

Our visit to Mevlana, the address of calm

Elif Atlas/ Mehmet Hasan Sert Primary School Konya-Turkey

Our Search for Calmness

• We found our search for tranquility in the forest. Plenty of oxygen, bird sounds and vast greenery.
• We practiced staying calm by breathing deeply and exhaling in the forest.

KEZBAN ÖZDEMİR SAVCI AKKENT PRİMARY SCHOOL GAZİANTEP/TURKEY

our mask of calm

• We learned the feeling of calm by making masks, and we found peace and calm with ney music.

Our Calmness Trıp

Keeping calm

CALM

We learnt to calm down using the traffic light of anger.

https://youtu.be/Ao0CNOfClmQ

Gonca EmilMehmet Hasan Sert Prımary School Konya \ Turkey

• we draw what we want on a large white paper with finger paints listening to relaxing music with sounds of nature. Children are left free to express themselves with the design and color that helps them to express their feelings

Dimitra Sionti

NINA HORVAT - DV BJELOVAR / CROATIA

• Listen to soothing music and stories to relax

Meditation

"Calming balls"

• Using large Pilates balls for massaging our bodies

İlknur AY/ Mehmet Ali Bakkaloğlu Kindergarten/ Kayseri/ Turkey

Make Watercolor

• We talked to the kids about activities that calm them down. Watercolor got the most votes.

• My students painted calm children's pictures with relaxing music as a class.
• Sunlight also has a calming effect.

Dulce Helena, Vila Franca das Naves kindergarten, cluster of Schools from Trancoso/Portugal

Mindfulness

Minfulness is a technique to reduce anxiety. It is a technique that I use daily before starting the daily activities. It focuses on breathing, and is done while listening to peaceful music. I will say short sentences in a soft and low tone, appealing to feelings of relaxation. At other times I appeal to the performance of slow movements. The most important thing in this technique is deep and slow breathing.

• Stefania Villa Kindergarden Capoluogo Pontecorvo Italy

• Jar of calm

• The children listened to relaxing music
• Thinking about relaxing things
• let's draw a bar with the hammock palm trees together

GİZEM MORAN-ATATÜRK PRİMARY SCHOOL-ÇANAKKALE/TURKEY

CALM FEELING

• I am asked what the facial expression of the card in my hand is.
• We are asked which of the emotions this facial expression belongs to. Students' estimates are taken.
• Ask students what calmness means.
• They are asked in which situations and events they are calm, relaxed and relaxed.
• After the answers received, the students are told that they will play a game. After moving to the tables, the students are asked in which situations or events they felt calm and relaxed.
• Example: When I play games, when I do my studies, when I sleep, when I sit down after being very tired.

Şükran Yenigelen - Cemil Şükrü Çolakoğlu Primary School -Defne/ Hatay/ Türkiye

• I played calm music with the flute to the students.
• We talked about how music makes you feel.
• We talked about how there could be other activities that would create a sense of calmness, and each of my students drew a picture that they thought would calm them down, accompanied by calm music.

Calm down looking in the jars of the seasons

Kindergarten of Kentri , Grete, Greece

Breathing

I take breaths using the palm of my hand

COLORING MANDALAS Is a technique to reduce anxiety.Pupils colour mandalas while listen to a peaceful music. Silvia Muzzopappa, I.C.Calò, Ginosa,Italy.

Curione Angelica and Di Lena Lucrezia I.C. Calò Ginosa - Italy

Calm

• Activities for calm
• Listening to the song "Nuvole bianche"
• Relaxation
• Imagine you are in another palce
• Draw the place you imadined

Alicia Pérez Ruiz CEIP Cesáreo Alierta - Zaragoza (Spain)

CHI KUNG

We practice some Chi kung movements to help us to calm down. Our favourites are these: the bowman, the flamingo opening its big wings, the wind in the trees and the calm waters. We also move the ball of energy with the help of our breathing and put the Sun in the sky. Good vibes are moving around...

Despina Tsifetaki-2nd kindergarten of Ierapetra-Greece

CALM

• lISTENING TO LULLABIES
• USE TENNIS BALLS FOR MASAZ
• WATCHING FISHES IN THE AQUARIUM

Calm Aquarium

This aquarium was created in a project about the environment, however the children started to use it to calm down. It is similar to the pot of calm. When children feel agitated, they shake the aquarium. When they start to feel calmer, they stop agitating it and focus on their breathing and the calm of the seabed that they can observe through the aquarium.Isabel Mota, EBI Praia da Vitória, Lajes, Portugal

Kristiine-Teele Satsi & Nele Pihlak, Tallinn Kindergarten Pääsusilm, Estonia

The children sit in a circle and the teacher turns on meditation music. First, the teacher asks the children to be very quiet and close their eyes. The children then raise their hands and the children pat them on their cheeks, nose, abdomen and legs. After that, the teacher asks the children to inhale through the nose and out through the mouth, at least 5 times.The teacher shows the children a feather and how quietly it falls to the floor. The children watch everything quietly. The teacher goes to each child and the child can blow the feather and watch it fall. The teacher instructs the children to listen to the silence (can you hear the feather falling).This technique helps children focus on peace and teachers them to listen to silence.

Calm-time

Dina Tallou 7th Kindergarten of Ioannina GREECE

We kalm down by creating and in contact with Nature

Conceição Rocha, Vila Franca das Naves Kindergarten, Class1, Trancoso/Portugal

• We keep calm when we can play outdoor.

Katerina Kalaitzaki, Georgia Chatzidimitrioy Kindergarten of Kentri (class1) , Crete, Greece

• Calm exersizes
• Trust exersizes
• By doing confidence exercises the team members become more attached
• this way they feel calm
• they relax feeling their friend's touch

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