What are the benefits of relaxation for children?
- stretching
- Observation
- Touch and self-massage
- Breathing
Conditions to promote relaxation
Our children need to let off steam, move, but sometimes come back to calm … Condition very useful when it comes to focusing, to calm down, to lower the pressure, or fall asleep, but in everyday life, between “hurry up”, “brush your teeth” and “go to bed”, it’s not always obvious. Here are several games ideas to help our children relax. And it’s because there is a “playful” side at these games, that our behaviour will easily adopt them.
What are the benefits of relaxation for children?
Relaxation is a nice gift to do to our children. The anti-stress effects have been proven in many studies. To be convinced of it, just experience on ourselves. Take 5 minutes to breathe or stretch quickly gives us a feeling of appeasement. The objective of relaxation is to provide a full state of personal and mental relaxation. His benefits are multiple:
- stress reduction,
- Improving the capacity for attention and concentration,
- Mood more stable: relaxation helps regulate emotions and promotes the return to calm,
- Assets help and improves sleep
But for a child, it’s very difficult, if not impossible, to relax while remaining motionless and passive. You have already seen your child without moving on the couch … (at home, it’s either fever, on TV. But for the rest, it’s never seen?).
Here are several ideas of games and relaxation exercises built around 4 axes: stretching, observation, touch, and finally, of course, the inevitable breath! Note that there are numbers to find itself, but the idea is not doing everything. Each exercise can be a session in its own right. Or we can choose to do some of each group. Everything depends on desires, what we love, attention, from the moment of the day. In short, draw and come back.
Games to help children relax
Stretching
Stretching games are interesting because they allow you to enter the activity while being moving. This allows you to channel energy, a bit like in yoga.
Game # 1 – touch the sky
We position it well right. The arms rise by the side by forming a big circle and inspiring deeply, then the arms become immobilized on the vertical above the head. Then we stretch a hand after the other, wanting to touch the sky. Then the arms come down along the body. We can imagine a sun salutation. After having done it 3 – 4 times, we can propose to the child to take a time to observe how is the body after this stretch: calm? Sparkling? Painful?
Game # 2 – Imitate An Animal
We can offer our child to play animals. The cat stretches, digs his back and made the back round. He makes his claws. The elephant advances in a heavy step. The camel rises starting with the back. The butterfly deploys its wings … and why not the bat if you want to play the adventurers. Let the kids name animals, and together try to find the movements to do.
Game # 3 – Planting a seed
It’s one of our favourites with children. The seed starts curled up in the earth. Then a small stem, all frail, comes out of his shell. She crosses the earth that is hard. She points out the tip of her leaves, but she stays small, fragile, at the mercy of animals. Then she grows up. She grows up and becomes a shrub. Then the plant becomes a tree and touches the sky. Winds have fun in these branches. A Cold summer breeze and we can prolong the game. The trees come off from the earth and meet other trees of the forest. They graze; touch each other and separate … into an improvised dance.
Observation games
Observation games make it possible to feel his body.
Game # 4 – Radio Nature
If we have the chance to be outdoors, we can propose to sit down and close your eyes. We focus our attention on our other senses. With hearing, we try to hear the sounds close to us. What do I mean? The feet that drizzle? Buttocks that move? A fly that goes near my ear? We keep the observations for sharing them together after. Then we try to perceive the more distant sounds. A cried bird? etc.
Game # 5 – The Pantin game
We imagine that we are a pantin. Sometimes, our body becomes hard … as much as possible. Everything contracts: the teeth get tightened, the eyes come together.
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