Move This World: Heart to Heart
When Dora has a big adventure ahead, her heart might beat faster than normal. Here’s a strategy she (and you!) could use to calm down again after the adventure is finished.
Our friends at Move This World are sharing a fun and handy strategy called Heart to Heart that grown-ups and children can practice and use when they’re feeling stressed or out of control.
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 Heart to Heart. Let's hold our hands over our hearts and breathe in 1 - 2 - 3 - 4, and out 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 like Elliot and Kyra, our Move This World teachers show us.
- Can you feel how your heartbeat and breath is slowing down as we breathe?
- We can practice Heart to Heart with Move This World when we want to calm down our minds and bodies.
Video
Vocabulary
Calm - not feeling angry, nervous, or any other strong emotions
Breathe - to take air into and out of the lungs
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!
