This was a nice, calm storytime about
yoga and mindfulness. It was our first storytime using this theme and I would
definitely revisit it again.
I started off storytime with our
familiar bean bag song and then I explained a little bit about yoga and
mindfulness and asked some questions about our topic.
I started by reading Zoo Zen: A YogaStory for Kids that is a book that explains yoga using cute animal characters
and showing each yoga pose they do. The kids were eager to try each pose and
they were pros! This was great because they were involved, got in their
exercise, and were focused.
We then read Yoga Bunny by Brian Russo.
This is another cute yoga book about a bunny who wants his friends to do yoga
with them, but they needed to focus and clear their minds first before Yoga
Bunny got all his forest friends involved.
We did a few breathing and mindfulness
exercises using Kira Willey's Mindful Moments cd and then we read our last
book, Here and Now by Julia Denos. This was the perfect book to end this
storytime because it was such a peaceful book to read.
For our craft, we made mandalas out of
paper and paint. The kids loved painting and focused on it very well and then
had fun seeing how their designs would look like after they folder their paper
circles in half.
This is a perfect theme to do for a
smaller storytime group.
Other Books:
Yoga Friends Mariam Gates
I Am Yoga Susan Verde
Belly Breathe Leslie Kimmelman
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