Activities

Play dough mats, morning and bedtime routine charts, an outdoor explorer journal, calm-down cards, and movement games for ages 3-7.

A social-emotional calm-down card with five gentle rainbow breathing steps for big feelings.

Rainbow Breaths Calm-Down Card

A gentle breathing game for big feelings - breathe a calm rainbow.

Ages 3-7

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A social-emotional calm-down card teaching the butterfly hug - a gentle self-hug for big feelings.

Butterfly Hug Calm-Down Card

A gentle self-hug game to help settle big feelings.

Ages 3-7

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A social-emotional grounding card: notice five things you see, four you touch, and more.

Five Little Senses Calm-Down Card

A noticing game that brings worried minds back to now.

Ages 3-7

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A social-emotional calm-down card teaching slow belly breathing - fill your tummy like a balloon.

Balloon Belly Calm-Down Card

A slow belly-breathing game for calming down.

Ages 3-7

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An active-play movement card: flutter like a butterfly, then freeze - inclusive, no competition, feet-on-the-floor.

Flutter and Freeze Movement Card

Flutter, then freeze - a wiggle game for indoors or out.

Ages 3-7

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An outdoor adventure card: a gentle backyard scavenger hunt with a look-closely wonder prompt.

Backyard Butterfly Hunt Outdoor Card

A backyard scavenger hunt for little explorers.

Ages 3-7

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A play dough mat with five dashed circles in a row to fill with rolled dough balls to build a caterpillar.

Roll a Caterpillar Play Dough Mat

Roll five dough balls and fill the circles to build a caterpillar.

Ages 3-7

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A play dough mat with a large dashed chrysalis outline to fill with dough.

Sissy's Chrysalis Play Dough Mat

Fill the chrysalis with dough and imagine who is getting ready inside.

Ages 3-7

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A play dough mat with six dashed petal circles around a dashed center to fill with dough.

Build a Flower Play Dough Mat

Press a dough ball into every petal, then fill the middle.

Ages 3-7

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A play dough symmetry mat: one butterfly wing is drawn, the other side is blank to build and match.

Matching Wings Play Dough Mat

One wing is drawn for you. Build the other one to match.

Ages 3-7

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A play dough mat with a long dashed wavy path to press a rolled dough snake along.

Buddy's Hop Path Play Dough Mat

Roll one long dough snake and press it along Buddy's whole path.

Ages 3-7

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An outdoor journal page with a drawing box, a leaf-rubbing box, lines for what you saw, heard, and felt, and a wonder question.

Meadow Explorer Journal

Take it on a walk: draw what you found, rub a leaf, and write down one wonder.

Ages 3-7

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A morning routine chart with five numbered rows, each with a blank box to draw the step in and a circle to check off.

Sissy's Morning Flutter Routine Chart

Draw each morning step, then check it off together.

Ages 3-7

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A bedtime routine chart with five numbered rows, each with a blank box to draw the step in and a circle to check off.

Sissy's Bedtime Flutter Routine Chart

Draw each bedtime step, then check it off together.

Ages 3-7

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A three-by-three bingo card of things to find outside - a flower, a butterfly, a cloud, a rock, a leaf, a stick, the sun, and a mushroom - with a free centre square.

Meadow Scavenger Hunt Bingo

Find three in a row outside - flower, cloud, rock, stick, and friends.

Ages 3-7

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A three-by-three autumn bingo card of things to find outside - a red leaf, an acorn, a spider web, a gray cloud, a mushroom, a bare stick, a cold rock, and a late butterfly.

Autumn Meadow Bingo

An autumn walk in bingo form - acorns, red leaves, and spider webs.

Ages 3-7

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A sensory-bin recipe card: fill a tub with dry rice, hide six little treasures, and dig for them - with a can-you-find list and a safety note.

Meadow Treasure Sensory Bin

Fill a tub with rice, hide the treasures, and dig in.

Ages 3-7

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A kids' calm-down yoga sheet with four meadow moves - Butterfly Rest, Buddy's Big Stretch, Little Seed, and Flitter's Glow - each with an everybody-can line.

Quiet Wings Yoga

Four calm meadow moves to slow the day down - every body welcome.

Ages 3-7

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A make-together snack card: build a butterfly from a banana body, apple-slice wings, raisin eyes, and pretzel antennae - with a you-do / grown-up-does split, allergen flags, and a choking note.

Fruit Butterfly Snack Card

Build a butterfly you can eat - banana body, apple wings, raisin eyes.

Ages 3-7

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A no-bake snack card: squish oats, sunflower seed butter, and honey into little chrysalis bites - nut-free by design, with allergen flags and a choking note.

Chrysalis Oat Bites Snack Card

No-bake chrysalis bites - squish, roll, rest, eat. Nut-free by design.

Ages 3-7

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A grow-together garden card: pick a sunny spot, plant zinnias and cosmos, water gently, and watch quietly - with the full garden safety notes.

Plant a Butterfly Garden Card

Plant a small patch that butterflies will actually visit.

Ages 3-7

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An indoor gardening card: start seeds in paper cups on a sunny windowsill, one knuckle deep, checked every morning - with the full garden safety notes.

Little Cup Seed Starting Card

Start seeds inside in little cups - a garden before the garden.

Ages 3-7

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A garden-themed sensory-bin recipe card: fill a tub with dried beans, bury garden treasures, and hunt with a scoop - with a can-you-find list and a safety note.

Garden Helper Sensory Bin

A little gardener's digging bin - pots, gloves, and seed packets.

Ages 3-7

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More activities are on the way — everything here is always free, teacher-created, and made for grown-ups to share with their children.

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