Our best tips for bringing Sparklers and wellbeing activities into your home-learning. It's soooooo easy!
Sparklers is normally a classroom, wellbeing toolkit. But during this time Sparklers is a great option for home use too. So, ta daaaa!
Our top tips to keep things calm (or as calm as possible!)
Mark ANZAC day by making a poppy wreath or single giant poppy.
Help your kids talk about how they're feeling - in a fun way!
One of the ways we know to stay well is to have some sort of structure or routine in our day.
Learn about energy levels and how we can match them to fit the situation.
Get on top of the big emotions like anger and worry with this fun technique.
Support your child to learn their strengths and discover yours too - while you're at it!
Capture memories of your whānau - it builds connection both to them and your family's history.
Expressing gratitude helps us feel good, and it's got the science to back it! Give it a go, make it a habit.
Names are important and often have special meaning or a story. Share and capture these.
Kids need to calm their energy or big emotions - step one, learn to tummy breathe!
Practise tummy breathing to lengthen our time relaxing and being mindful. A whānau chillax!
Sometimes a shared goal is a great way to change the focus and reconnect us. This will do the trick!
A super simple introduction to mindfulness using your next snack break to practice.
Honing in on our senses develops our mindfulness skills – and mindfulness gives our wellbeing a boost!
Having things available that help us calm down is important at any age - start em young!
Learning our pepeha is such a great thing to do because it connects us to our family and history.
When we 'lose ourselves,', in a calm activity it's called a 'flow' state. AND is happiness producing!
Spending lots of time together, means it's important everyone can retreat to a calm, happy space.
A fun activity which helps us learn about the connection between music and our moods
Your whānau needs to talk about how you're all feeling (in a good way!) Here's a fun place to start.
Mindfulness has heaps of wellbeing benefits. Here's a week of opportunities to learn to be more mindful.
An activity to identify some of the music we feel connected to, and why.
This is a fave in the classroom and easily brought to home - so much fun!
This is a goodie to take to lawn, let your inhibitions go and have some dramatic, active fun!
Hikitia te Hā is a simple breathing and mindfulness sequence that anyone can learn using our videos.
This is a mindfulness activity where you and the kids can find some proper, inner calm.
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