24 Oct 2013
Halloween Monster Yoga
With Halloween coming up next week, I planned a fun Monster Yoga lesson for the kids.
I found the cutest Sesame Street video on YouTube called Belly Breathe by Common & Colbie Caillat
Sometimes the monster that’s inside you
Is a monster that is mad
It’s a monster who is angry
It’s a monster who feels bad.
When your monster wants to throw things
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There’s a way to calm your monster and chill your inner monster out.
Belly breathe gonna breathe right through it
Belly breathe this is how you do it.
The kids LOVED the video and were mesmerized watching Elmo while doing their BALLOON (Belly) Breathing.
Next we did a Skeleton Warmup, where I went around the circle and asked each child what part of their skeleton body they wanted to warm up. There was some head shaking, toe wiggling, arm raising, foot stomping with lots of laughter and fun going on!
I read them an adorable book called Where’s My Mummy? by Carolyn Crimi, which is about a little mummy who plays “Hide & Shriek” with his Mama Mummy and then he can’t find her.
The Baby Mummy sets out to find his MUMMY and meets lots of friendly monsters along the way, like BONES, GLOB and DRAC the VAMPIRE, but he is not scared, her keeps looking for his MUMMY. The book has lots of fun actions that the children can pretend to do along with the mummy and the other monsters, like TROMPING, BRUSHING your teeth, WIGGLING your head and FLAPPING your wings. Of course, there are lots of other animals and yoga poses in the book, like FROG, TREE, BAT, and MOUSE too, so we got lots of yoga in too! The book was perfect for the Halloween season and the children enjoyed the sound effects and illustrations in the book, as they waited for me to turn the page to see what happened next!
Stay tuned for another fun Halloween lesson plan next week…
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14 Nov 2013
Leaves are Falling!
I LOVE AUTUMN.
It’s my favorite season…the leaves changing colors and falling to the ground, the sound of the wind rustling through the leaves, and of course stomping or rolling around in the leaves…it makes me feel like a kid again!
Now that the foliage is at its peak, I wanted to do a lesson on LEAVES with the children. I found this book in my home library and never really thought about using it before until I opened it and realized how many animal poses were in the book, I love it when that happens!
I also brought in some real maple leaves to use for breathing and creative movement.
After our OMs, I introduced the theme by asking the children what season it was. When they all answered FALL, I asked them ” What is so special about this season? They all replied…“the leaves change colors and are falling!” Then I passed out the leaves to the children.
“We are going to use our leaves for our breathing today.”
I instructed them to place the leaves in front of their faces and begin breathing in deeply and exhaling slowly through their mouths “CHOO” like in our TRAIN BREATH . I asked them to notice what happens to their leaf with each breath. This was a wonderful way to reinforce mindfulness, as they were very focused on their leaves, observing it and its movement.
Then we had some fun and each child gave ideas for other ways to make our leaves move.
They blew on the leaves, they twirled their leaves, they shook their leaves like it was a windy day.
Then I asked them where leaves came from and we did TREE POSE.
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They lifted their leaves above their heads, even on their heads and then made some branches with their arms and then let the leaves fall to the ground. So many creative ideas to f=do with the leaves…
Then we read the book and did our yoga poses: BUTTERFLY, MOUSE, COW, FROG, LION, BIRD, TURTLE, PEACOCK and more!
The illustrations in the book are beautiful and show the many ways to make art with leaves!
There is also a page of all the shapes and colors or leaves, so it’s also a great way to reinforce these concepts with preschoolers. They even had fun “seeing” different shapes in the leaves, like an umbrella, a mitten, a star, a surfboard!
For SAVASANA, I had them place their maple leaves over their eyes, like an eye mask, they fit perfectly!
I told them a guided visualization about being outdoors in the cool, autumn air, watching the beautiful colors of the leaves and seeing them falling to the ground…
I am always amazed how a simple prop in yoga, especially one that costs nothing and can be found everywhere can transform yoga into a magical experience for children!
A child’s imagination is ripe with possibilities…what can you use in your classes to make learning yoga FUN?