Move This World: Ballooning
When Team Umizoomi faces a challenge, Milli, her brother Geo, and their friendly robot named Bot leap into action to solve it. When Blue faces a challenge, she looks for clues to solve it!
What do YOU do when you face a big challenge?
One way you can focus is to become great at deep breathing!
Our friends at Move This World are sharing a fun and handy strategy called Balooning that grown-ups and children can practice and use breathe deeply and calm their minds and bodies — so they can focus!
Age Groups: Big Kids, Little Kids
Skills: breathing, Feelings, mindfulness, Self Regulation, Social Emotional
Materials
- None
Instructions
- Let's watch the Move This World video and practice Ballooning. Let's sit up or stand up straight. Let's pretend we're holding a balloon in both hands with our fingers touching and our elbows relaxed.
- As we breathe IN, let's pull our hands apart as if our balloon is expanding.
- As we breathe OUT, let's empty our lungs and then our stomach and bring our hands back together.
- Let's blow up our balloons together three times. How do we feel?
Video
Vocabulary
Calm - not feeling angry, nervous, or any other strong emotions
Focus - to pay attention
Lungs - organs in our rib cages that help us breathe
Find more exercises from Move This World to help you play at home or at school here.
And please share this fun #SEL exercise from @Move_ThisWorld in the @BigHeartWorld initiative with your friends!
