Brain Healthy Activities

Reimaging Celebrations (with a Healthy Spin)

For a lot of us, the words “Let’s celebrate!” automagically conjure up thoughts of junk food, alcohol, and other unhealthy things. I asked my social network: “What’s a healthy celebration? What can we teach our kids (and our big kid selves)? What feelings and connections are we chasing/craving when we

Emotional Wellness

Guided Meditation for Learning to Communicate with Kindness

Special thanks to Emily Behr, founder of Growga and board of advisors member for Take2Minutes.org, a nonprofit providing mindfulness activities to students and young adults for free. She sent over a wonderful guided meditation that’s beautiful and appropriate for kids of all ages. You can listen to it below. Take2Minutes.org

Community Helpers

#KindnessRules – Teaching Kindness in Your Classroom

Teaching kindness is just as important as teaching any academics.Choosing to always show kindness is a life-long challenge. It takes a lot of practice and maturity to be able to set aside your initial reaction and choose to show kindness instead. Eventually, kindness WILL be your initial reaction. Isn’t that the goal anyway? 

Coloring Sheets

Unicorn – Poem & Coloring Sheets

Meet Belonna the Unicorn. Listen to her story, and then download free coloring sheets below. Have fun! Belonna the Unicorn Belonna, the little unicorn didn’t have a horn She had a pair of wings and other things like eyes and a mouth and nose But baby unicorns have to wait