Activity summary

This activity is designed to assist children in engaging all their senses, connecting with their surroundings, and understanding their inner thoughts and emotions. Through this, children enhance their abilities in concentration, attentiveness, resilience, emotional awareness, and managing both their physical and emotional responses.

Activity intention:

This activity has been developed to cultivate children's emotional awareness, resilience, and focus, fostering their social and emotional skills and promoting a deeper connection to nature through engaging in mindful exploration of their senses and environment.

Activity guides and printables

Activity details

This mindfulness activity can be used across all learning areas and year levels. However, you can find explicit learning outcomes for Early Learning listed below:

EYLF Learning Outcomes:

Learning Outcome 1:

Children have a strong sense of identity
1.1 Children feel safe, secure, and supported
1.2 Children develop their emerging autonomy, interdependence, resilience and sense of agency
1.3 Children develop knowledgeable and confident self identities
1.4 Children learn to interact in relation to others with care, empathy and respect

Learning Outcome 3:

Children have a strong sense of wellbeing
3.2 Children take increasing responsibility for their own health and physical wellbeing

A space large enough for children (and adults) to sit or lie down (this activity works well inside, but outside is better!)
A collection of flowers, leaves, stones, seed pods or other tactile natural materials (enough for one each)
A small piece of fruit or something else edible for each child (berries, grapes, sultanas, herbs, cereal, etc). Be aware of food intolerance or allergies.

Optional

Cool.org guided mindfulness activity audio recording - The Nature of Mindfulness – Super Senses – Early Learning

Naturally Mindful: Guided Mindfulness Experiences

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