James A. Butler

Gentle prompts to help kids improve concentration, regulate emotions, and live in the moment. Close your eyes . . . Breathe in through your nose . . . And breathe out . . . Kids feel pressure too! Helping them through their day-to-day problems can be as simple as a five-minute moment of mindfulness. Bring mindfulness-focusing techniques to your classroom, home, or anywhere. This inventive collection of quick and easy exercises helps kids live in the moment, de-stress, and zero in on the task at hand. Free Spirit’s In a Jar® Products With unique, engaging topics for varying ages, these go-anywhere, easy-to-use jars make learning fun, portable, and spontaneous. Kids, parents, and educators will enjoy the games and cards at home, at school, at childcare, in the office, while traveling, at parties, in youth groups, and at camp.

Reflect and relax with thirty-six calming SEL-focused coloring activities for kids. With a unique combination of coloring book illustrations and reflection prompts, Libro para colorear y reflexiones para el aprendizaje socioemocional effectively combines mindfulness and SEL to be used both in the classroom and at home. Each of the SEL topics features two pages of activities and prompts, mirroring the left and right sides of our brains. The left page (logical) includes a prompt for reflection through journaling or free-drawing and the right page (creative) is an illustration for coloring to promote mindfulness. Topics range from positive self-talk to empathy to trying your best. This versatile coloring book for kids stands on its own merits yet can be paired with other mindfulness curriculum to further integrate social and emotional learning into your everyday schedule. The thirty-six mindfulness coloring pages correspond with the thirty-six weeks of the school year, and the SEL writing prompts support the weekly activities in Mindful ClassroomsTM: Daily 5-Minute Practices to Support Social-Emotional Learning (PreK to Grade 5) by James Butler, M. Ed. Also available in English.