TIME TO GO EXPLORE MINDFULNESS
ANEW Cbeebies activity, voiced by Stephen Fry, aims to help children learn and develop mindful habits to help them through these unprecedented times.
Developed with a mindfulness consultant, and free in the Cbeebies Go Explore app,
Your Mindful Garden gives children three daily activities to complete, each one looking at a different aspect of mindfulness: focus, creative and calm.
Whether it’s playing hide and seek with the Cbeebies bugs or helping some friendly fish to pick up colourful scales, the focus activities aid concentration, and in turn help to clear and relax the mind.
The final activity of each day is always something calming. From learning to stretch with a new monkey friend to breathing along with a frog, it’s about learning valuable techniques that can help improve children’s wellbeing.
When starting Your Mindful Garden for the first time, children are asked to dig a hole to plant their own mindfulness tree.
Completing the three daily activities gets them a surprise for their tree, with a new reward available to make their tree look more exciting every day.
Stephen says: “It was such a pleasure to be involved with a simple, but beautifully designed idea like this.
“I hope and believe that many children will find the game fun, engaging and helpful in their journeys through life.”
Rachel Bardill, executive editor, BBC Children’s, says: “Giving kids the tools they need to help them prepare for school and beyond is at the heart of Go Explore, and Your Mindful Garden is a really fun way for children to discover mindfulness from an early age.”
■ Download the Go Explore app via the Apple, Google Play and Amazon app stores.