Character Building Activities

I Saw That! {Printable Encouragement Cards}

Summary: Free printable encouragement cards for kids and why you should use them. As a child, I felt that celebrations were for those gargantuan events that happened maybe once or twice per lifetime. I saw people rejoicing around me and yet a little voice in my head kept me from feeling joy, kindness, happiness or… {read more}

Game to Build Emotional Intelligence for Preschoolers

Our body language, especially our hands, can say so much. We play a game called “My hands can say…” It’s all about miming what we feel using our hands. We make up situations and take turns using our hands to communicate how we feel. Another twist is for each one to come up with an… {read more}

Teach Kids How to Act Online {Free Printables}

If you are looking for ways to teach kids how to act online, these discussion questions and printable activities might help. Can you imagine growing up in today’s world? Where photos don’t have to be printed to be seen, information can be instantly transported via computer or phone, and anyone can blast news around the… {read more}

Encourage Loving Relationships {Printable Love Pouch}

Occasionally, we are not ourselves. We say things we don’t mean. Our words come out like little daggers instead of the concerned consonants-and-vowels-stitched phrases we had hoped for. We shout when we mean to put ourselves in a time out. We scrape tender little feelings and we make them doubt that we love them. We… {read more}

Learn About Having a Positive Attitude {Magnet Activity for Kids}

You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in harmony with your dominant thoughts. – Brian Tracy We used this marble wand to demonstrate and explore the concept behind the quotation above. When we surround ourselves with positive experiences, positive people and positive influences then we can be sure to have… {read more}

Printable Tool to Work on Focus

My mind wanders and for a second I forgot what led me here… I have one hand on the open fridge door, another one holding a stapler, and in the space between my twisted shoulder and my neck a phone balances awkwardly. I knew where I was going before all these distinct ideas merged into… {read more}

Mindfulness Exercises for Kids: Teaching Non-Judgementalism

In part one of this series, I introduced the concept of mindfulness. In part two, we talked about how to focus our awareness. In this post, we see how mindfulness is the focus of awareness in the present moment without judgement. This takes a lot of practice. We have been taught our whole lives to judge… {read more}

How Can We Cultivate a Positive Attitude? A Workshop for Families

I wish I could say that I woke up every day like this… That just isn’t reality, though! You will know as well as I do that life is not always full of white sheets and sunshine. The never-ending laundry pile and a forecast of rain during school drop-off are only two of the inevitable challenges a… {read more}