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Calming ActivitiesOnline ResourcesHeartfulness UK Children’s Relaxation with Grainne O Reilly every Wednesday, starting April 15th at 2 pm UK. UK LIVE kids relaxation session every Wednesday at 2 pm UK time. HYPERLINK "" Kids Zen Den: Relaxation stories: Kids calm pack: Calming ActivitiesActivities lying on the tummy. Pressure on the front of the body stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system—our calming system. Have the child lie on his/her tummy propping on their forearms and have them do most any activity. Some ideas: coloring or drawing, playing cards, playing rock, paper, scissors, rolling a ball back and forth with a partner, building with LEGO’s.Mouth Activities. Blowing, sucking and chewing are also calming—not necessarily while lying on tummy—just any time. Some ideas:Blow a cotton ball or ping pong ball across the room. It can be fun to do this as a race. To make it more challenging, blow through a straw. You can even make goals and play football with the cotton ball—only blowing, no hands.Make bubbles by blowing through a straw into a glass of water. Little one love this.Make a pinwheel and blow it. Pinwheel making instructions here: a ping pong ball into a funnel and try to blow it into the air by blowing through the funnel’s spoutSuck a thick smoothie or milkshake through a strawTry to keep a piece of tissue paper on the end of a straw by sucking in the strawBlow up balloons or blow bubbles.?Chew dried fruit or other chewy thingsEat crunchy things ................
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