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Flower Garden Yoga for your flower theme

If you do a flower theme in the Spring, then this flower garden yoga activity will fit perfectly into your lesson plan. It's a chance to add some calming, mindful movement to your busy day.

 

This creative and artsy activity is a beautiful, group nature dance that would be perfect to do outdoors. It's soothing flow will help your kids calm, focus, balance their emotions, and flex their creative muscles.

 

Flower Garden Yoga

Flower garden yoga is a fun, creative moving work of art. You can add gentle music or let the sounds of nature be your music. Use a singing bell or chime to move your preschoolers into the next pose so that talking doesn't interrupt the beautiful, peaceful flow of moving art.

 

Begin your week by choosing flower garden-inspired yoga poses. Get the kids involved and create a list. I have some suggestions for you below.

 

Practice a pose or two each day from Monday through Thursday so each preschooler gets comfortable and familiar with the poses. By Friday your class will be able to create a group yoga flower garden outside.

 

Of course you can tweak this schedule if you don't see your kiddos Monday through Friday or if you need more than a week to practice the poses. Make it work for you.

 

How to Create your Yoga Flower Garden

Start by having your kids spread out so they have enough space around them. When they bump into each other, they get distracted and it interrupts the flow and ultimately the calm. So spread out far enough to move easily but not too far, you still want to feel like a connected group.

 

Next, take a few moments to review all the different garden poses they learned over the past few days or weeks. It can be helpful to have a large chart with pictures of the different poses for reference before and during the flower garden yoga activity.

 

After some review and practice, it's time to begin. Have the kiddos move into one of the garden poses. It can be any pose they choose. The point is that each child randomly chooses a pose so that all the poses together creates all the various things found in a flower garden- the flowers, bugs, squirrels, etc.

 

After a breath or two in that pose, use your singing bowl or chime to move them slowly into another pose of their choosing and watch how the garden transforms pose by pose. Keep going for as long as your kids are engaged.

 

Try to keep it silent and flow slowly and gently from pose to pose, led by the sound of the bell. Use the sounds of nature or gentle music to calm, soothe, and relax.

 

You will have created a beautiful inspiring, flower garden dance. Enjoy the flowing, peaceful beauty.

 

Yoga Flower Garden Pose Ideas

Here is some inspiration for your yoga flower garden. You can find instructions and pictures for all of these yoga poses at Kids Yoga Stories.

• Child's Pose- seed, rock, snail, turtle, ladybug
• Cobbler's Pose- butterfly
• Cobra Pose- snake
• Extended Mountain Pose- sun
• Flower Pose- flower
• Happy Baby Pose- ladybug, bug, spider, beetle
• Hero Pose- rabbit, bee
• Horse Stance- frog
• Kneeling- squirrel
• Lotus Pose- flower
• Pigeon Pose- bird
• Tortoise Pose- turtle, bug
• Tree Pose- tree
• Warrior 3 Pose- bird

 

Don't be limited by this list. Brainstorm your own list of flower garden things and match poses to them or create your own.

 

You can grab a free printable version of the instructions and discussion questions in The Mindfulness Library. 

 

 

Flower Garden Yoga discussion

After the activity, have a discussion about their experience in the garden. Ask them what they noticed, they felt, or their thoughts while they were in the garden. Here are some questions:

• what was your favorite pose
• was it easy to flow into the next pose
• did you have difficulty choosing the next pose to do
  • how did that make you feel
  • what did you do about it (make up their own pose, look at the chart, copy a friend, etc.)
• what did you notice most about your body during the activity
• what were you thinking about during the activity
• what emotions were you feeling
• what other things can we add to our garden for next time
• what color was your flower
• what kind of bird were you
• how did it feel to be the sun, a tree, a bug

How perfect would it be for your class to perform flower garden yoga for their parents during their graduation ceremony? They can even create colorful props like butterfly wings or flower petal hats to wear. How beautiful!!

 

I can't wait to see your pictures!! Be sure to send them- Dawn@DawnSelander.com

 

Related: Mindfulness art activity for spring

Growing kindness- a moving meditation

 

Don't forget to grab your free printable version of the instructions and the discussion questions for flower garden yoga in The Mindfulness Library.

 

And, if you're looking for even more mindfulness activities to add to your preschool day, look no further than The Mindfulness Library for free, 24/7 access to meditation scripts, activity packets, deep breathing printables and more.