Children draw inspiration from the butterfly as they practice mindful breathing, then design a mindful breathing technique of their own.

May Spring Theme Mindfulness Breathing Posters for SEL, Calming and Self-Regulation will be a great addition to your Social Emotional Learning materials this month during May and Spring. Mindful Breathing Posters have various deep breathing strategies to help students calm and self-regulate during times of frustration, anger, or anxiety. These posters could be added to a Calming Corner or be used during Whole Group Instruction for mindfulness practice. Breathing posters could be printed to a smaller scale and added to a Calm Down kit. 14 various mindful breath techniques/body awareness stretches are included. Featuring: Flower Outline Trace Breathing Dandelion Breaths Butterfly Breathing Flower Breathing Buzzing Bee Breaths Bee Trace Breathing Butterfly Stretch Breaths Sunshine Maze Breathing Pinwheel Breathing Infinity Trace Breathing - Butterflies Butterfly Swirls Finger Tracing Rectangle Breathing - Floral Beehive Circle Breathing Ladybug Circle Breathing These creative strategies will add a new element to your classroom behavior management and will help your students develop mindful habits. Posters are not grade specific and could be used for preschool children, elementary classrooms, or special education students. Bonus: A Calm Down Corner poster in corresponding colors to accompany these breathing techniques. Designed to be printed and laminated for long-lasting use. You could also print and use together as a book. Don't forget that if you leave a review on a paid resource, you will earn TpT credits to use on future purchases! I truly appreciate feedback on products as it helps me know what products are an asset to your classroom. You may also like... Winter Mindfulness Posters for SEL February Mindfulness Breathing Posters for SEL March Mindfulness Breathing Posters for SEL, Calming and Self-Regulation April Mindfulness Breathing Posters for SEL, Calming and Self-Regulation Summer Mindfulness Breathing Posters for SEL, Calming and Self-Regulation

Use these butterfly templates to assist in learning all about these fascinating insects. Color, cut and create your very own butterfly with this free printable. Make lots of easy and fun butterfly crafts with the butterfly templates!

This week I really enjoyed working through the Easy Watercolour Portraits tutorial suggested by Kristin Dudish at Tutorial Tryouts every Tuesday. It was fun from beginning to end, and I was very happy with the results. As it happens, my watercolour portraits also fit right into Jenn's theme for Artist's Play Room for 'Heads and Shoulders', and I have added an extra image at the end specially for APR - a different type of 'Heads and Shoulders' image. It took me all morning to find a photograph to use for the tutorial because I spent almost the whole morning looking through the photo boxes for a picture matching the type Elise recommended, and only a moment to choose one when I saw it. Still, it made an enjoyable and nostalgic morning. This is a school photo of my daughter, Carol, when she was 8 years old (46 years ago), and apart from the fact that it is a lovely image, the balance of light and shadow is just right for the technique. Elise gave instructions for using PicMonkey, but it proved very simple in Photoshop. I scanned the photo into Photoshop and used the Posterise filter, with a reduction on the darker/lighter scale, to make a posterised copy, as in the middle photo. I then used the Trace Edges filter, as in the third picture on the line-up of three above. I printed the posterised and traced images, but decided that although I liked the effect of Trace Edges, I would trace the outline from the posterised version with tracing paper, as instructed in the tutorial. As you can see, I simplified the right side a little to make the image clearer, and produced my outline tracing in pencil. I used a simpler method than the tutorial suggested for transferring my tracing onto watercolour paper. I turned the page of tracing over and re-drew exactly on the traced lines, as we did when we were children. Then I flipped the paper back over to the front side and drew over the lines again onto the watercolour paper for the preparatory image. Doing it this way meant that I was able to repeat the process and use the same tracing for all four of the paintings. When I looked at the pencil lines on the watercolour paper, I felt they were rather dark, and I erased the traced lines until they were just barely visible. At least that's what I did on all the others, but forgot to do this for the gold one, as you can see if you look closely. I think it is worth erasing until there is just a faint outline to guide you. The gold painting is quite nice, but it's just not the colour I associate with Carol - blue and turquoise seem to be her colours. One of the things that is really annoying about getting older is the fact that I get a shaky hand, and I think you can see the effect of that on this dark blue version. I did the whole tutorial in one day, so I was also getting rather tired. The line around the chin on this one is rather too dark, but I'm pleased with the result. It's amazing how such a simple approach and speedy painting can produce such a realistic image. One of the reasons I use Inktense watercolour pencils so much these days is that it helps me to avoid the shaky-hand syndrome. I wanted to try another painting, and decided I would see how it came out with Pitt artist pen and Inktense pencils. I'm really pleased with the result, gentle and tender, just right to portray a gentle and tender person. This has been my favourite tutorial so far, and I'm sure I shall use the technique again. ARTIST'S PLAY ROOM Finally an extra 'Head and Shoulders' image for Artist's Play Room. This is a small sketch in my sketchbook for a painting I am doing - it's been put on one side for quite a while because I was having difficulty with part of it. Hopefully I will get down to finishing it one day. I heard a programme on the radio about THE LONG MARCH, an event near the end of WW2. It affected me so much that I sat down straight away and drew this coloured pencil sketch, with the intention of working it up into a painting. If you like the idea of making a watercolour portrait, I really do recommend this tutorial. It meant a lot to me because I was painting the portraits of Carol. At the moment she is not very well at all, as I wrote about her in my post The Bravest Person I Know a few weeks ago. Thank you Karen for suggesting the tutorial, and to Elise for her generosity in sharing the technique.

Brace yourself because the butterfly apple optical illusion is here to unravel your deepest fears! Take a look at the image below, what did you see first?

Discover free printable butterfly coloring pages for kids and adults! Easy, detailed, and beautiful designs ready to print and color.

Time: 20 minutes Age: Little kids to Tweens Difficulty: Intermediate

Help guide your little one into a restful sleep with this nighttime butterfly meditation, a guided sleep meditation for kids.

lalylala crochet pattern (printable PDF-file / 20 pages) Brimstone Butterfly Life Cycle Playset, incl. butterfly egg caterpillar cocoon interchangable wing suit leaf – This amigurumi butterfly is adorable, but also very educational! Crochet your own Butterfly Life Cycle Playset from this pattern – containing an egg, a cocoon, a lovely caterpillar and and her beautiful wing set. Even a leaf to feed your caterpillar is featured in the pattern! Let your tiny bug hatch from its egg. Watch the caterpillar munch her way through a green world and finally make her become an adorable Brimstone butterfly just by pulling the wingsuit on or off. Hat and wing sets are interchangeable! Create other outfits for your caterpillar using different colors or wing shapes. The crochet pattern is easy to follow and comes with very detailed instructions and a lot of step-by-step photos and tutorials and is also suitable for beginners. You can get the pattern in many languages (see list below ↓). – SIZE of the finished Amigurumi: 11 cm (4 inch) SKILL Level 1 - suitable for beginners CROCHET PATTERN languages - Dutch - English (US terms) - French - German - Italian - Spanish - Swedish – RELATED Brimstone CROCHET KIT: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1040202051 BOOK including more butterflies: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1026188956 There's a lovely STORY telling you more about your little bug friend on www.lalylala.com. It's a mindful tale about growing up, about changing and about the power of dreams – to read out loud and ponder on. – SELLING OF FINISHED TOYS The design and pattern are copyright and must not be reproduced for resale! You can’t sell finished toys made from this pattern. For your personal use (non-profit) or for charity purposes you are permitted to make as many items from this pattern as you like. © 2018 LALYLALA CROCHET . LYDIA TRESSELT All rights reserved. No part of this pattern may be published, resold, reproduced (in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, by photocopying, recording or otherwise), shared, translated or altered without prior permission in writing from the author.

I walked through Wal-Mart yesterday for a few things and was so excited to see the back-to-school supplies were out! Well, the part about school being back in session soon didn't get me excited. It was more the bin full of 25 cent glue sticks. I loaded up on glue sticks, rulers, pencil holders, pens, and pencil sharpeners. I had to get some pool noodles too because I saw Kelly's Throwback Thursday post about using pool noodles as tens and ones for place value. It's linky time again! Click the picture to visit the Ten Linky orginial post. This is a complete side note, but is anyone else having trouble with some of their boards disappearing? This has happened to me more than once. In the middle of creating this post, my science board disappeared. The number of my followers also changed (by about 20). So I made breakfast, did a little bit of laundry, went back to Pinterest and it still isn't there. What?? Some of the science pictures might not work, but you can click on the link below the picture that takes you to the source. Source: Life in First Grade One of our very first social studies units is tall tales. I always struggle to find things that fit into this category that are fun and age appropriate. Paul and his big blue ox, Babe, are always a favorite! Source: Fun 2B in First I had the hardest time finding things for John Henry. This is a free download and it fits the needs of my students perfectly. My students loved this visual aid! It's another freebie. This was one of the first things I made back in December. It's a big hit in my TPT. I hung them up in my room and my students were interested in seeing the different types of landforms. Goes along great with the landforms posters! Even better that it's part of a giveway today! Julie from First Grade Critter Cafe is hosting a giveaway in celebration of her blogging anniversary. If you've ever emailed back and forth with Julie you know how sweet and full of life she is! She also has some AMAZING art projects on her blog. Click the picture below to head straight to the giveaway. Continuing on with the pins... Source: First Grade Wow Great writing connection when you are studying about animals. "If I had animal teeth..." Source: Squished Ideas for Preschool Interactive way to learn the life cycle of an insect! Source: First Grade Wow Great activity to introduce living/nonliving! Except I would have to touch a real worm. Gag!! I have tons more science ideas, but that darn Pinterest isn't working! ***** Amber from School is a Happy Place has a great post about being a no reply blogger. Honestly, I didn't even realize I was when I first started blogging. Click on the picture (isn't it cute??) to visit her blog and make sure you are not a "no reply blogger!" Picture by Amber

Yellow butterflies are beautiful creatures with rich spiritual meanings and symbolism. Click here to learn all about them!

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In this blog you will see a journey being taken by students and teacher to build up our minds, muscles and imaginations together through inquiry, exploration, investigation, problem solving and teamwork!

STEM becomes STEAM as we integrate science with art in these awesome science art projects for kids! Get ready to get your mind blown!