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8 Fun Breathing Exercises for Kids {Printable}

A great collection of breathing exercises for kids available as a set of free, printable activity cards.

Breathing has to be the handiest tool we can gift our child for their managing emotions toolkit, after all your breath goes everywhere with you!

Teaching children to breathe provides them with a simple but effective strategy for slowing down, both mentally and physically, helping them to take notice of how they’re feeling and to relax or calm down in the face of overwhelming emotions.

Printable Breathing Exercises for Kids. Free printable activity cards.

8 Fun Breathing Exercises for Kids

Today I am sharing eight simple breathing exercises that are perfect for use with kids at home or school. These exercises can be used as part of your calm down plan (though it is obviously important to teach children the technique when they are calm so they can then put it to use in the heat of the moment), as a prior-to-sleep relaxation activity or as a brain break exercise to refocus and re-fresh.

The exercises have been specifically chosen as they are fun and relatable for children of all ages – they’ll particularly enjoy the Elephant and Bumblebee Breathing ones I am sure!

{Printable} Fun Breathing and Relaxation Exercises for Kids

The exercises are available on a series of printable cards so that you can print them out and laminate them.

Be sure to introduce the exercises one at a time so that your child has time to master each one before introducing the next.

You can see the Take 5 Breathing exercise in action here;

I love that this one is so unobtrusive, making it perfect for older children to use discretely wherever they are.

To print your breathing exercise cards

Click here >> Printable Breathing Exercise Cards. Save the PDF to your own computer. Open the PDF and print. When printing, select “Fit to printable area” (or similar) to ensure the page fits with your printer type and local paper size (these have been created at A4 size). For durability, print onto matte photo paper or lightweight cardstock and laminate. Personal, non commercial use only.

Further support your child’s developing emotional awareness with our printable Being Me Journal.

Social emotional learning journal cover

See all of our Managing Emotions Resources here…


Christie Burnett is an early childhood teacher, presenter, writer and the editor of Childhood 101. More importantly, she is a Mum who believes wholeheartedly in the value of children learning through play, the importance of quality early education, and the togetherness of family.

Filed Under: Behaviour Guidance, Bigger Kids Play, Connecting with Kids, Developing Emotionally, Featured, Preschool Play, Printables Tagged With: managing emotions

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  1. The Decent Mom says

    March 11, 2017 at 11:41 PM

    I love these so much. I'm writing a post about de-escalating high emotions in a child right now and will reference your page. What a great printout.
  2. Basimah says

    March 27, 2017 at 6:15 AM

    Nice. Thank you.
  3. Rae says

    October 14, 2017 at 11:14 PM

    These cards are wonderful! They are easy to read, cute to look at, and super helpful when teaching kids breathing strategies. Thank you so much! Rae | Mindful Rambles
  4. Andra says

    November 3, 2017 at 4:10 AM

    Thank you very much for this useful material!!
  5. Jamie Walton says

    February 23, 2018 at 2:20 AM

    These are wonderful! Thank you for sharing!
  6. Christina says

    March 8, 2018 at 8:05 PM

    Thank you sooooo much for sharing this material. Our students need these sort of exercises!
  7. Jody says

    March 18, 2018 at 7:00 AM

    Thank you so much....love having some new breathing exercises. These will be laminated and put to good use as we practise deep breathing everyday at school.
  8. Nik says

    March 19, 2018 at 10:38 PM

    What a great idea. Printing these onto some cardstock so we can use them again and again. Thank you!

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