Printable Mindfulness Breathing Exercises - 12 Shape Cards
- Year levels
- Years 1–3
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Social Emotional Learning (SEL), Special Resources
- Topic
- Mindfulness, Breathing Exercises
- Resource types
- Activities
- Preparation
- Print ready
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About this resource
This PDF contains twelve pastel spiral-shape breathing cards and an introductory page with brief use and printing instructions. Children slowly trace a path with a finger while practising gentle breathing.
Use selected cards in a calming corner, during a mindful moment or in circle time. The shapes include circles, hearts, triangles, stars and other geometric outlines. Print on cardstock and laminate if you want to reuse them.
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Learning objectives
Students practice mindful, controlled breathing (inhaling through the nose, exhaling through the mouth) while tracing a spiral shape with a finger.
Teaching tips
Print the cards on cardstock and laminate them for repeated use in a calming corner, as the product's own instructions suggest.
Introduce one or two shapes at a time for younger children before rotating through the full set of twelve.
Model the trace-and-breathe routine once as a class before placing the cards in an independent calm-down space.
Skills covered
Mindful breathing regulation — students coordinate a slow inhale/exhale with finger-tracing a spiral shape to practice self-calming.
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Mindful breathing
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