The Ultimate List of Free Meditation Printables for Kids {Mindfulness Resources}

Meditation seems to become more and more important each year for both kids and adults. The negative effects of the Internet might be hurting everyone’s sense of peace, but at least the good parts of the Internet are helping. They’re making lots of wonderful ideas and materials available to help both kids and adults find meditations that can improve life in many ways.

I’ve already published many mindfulness posts with free resources for kids and adults. Today, I want to share lots of free meditation printables for kids. I’m including sections on free printable breathing meditations, free printable finger labyrinths, free guided meditation scripts to use with kids, and (for families who want specifically Christian meditations) free printable scripture cards for kids’ Christian meditations.

Even though yoga poses and guided meditation or breathing exercises are often done together, this post won’t have yoga poses. (They’ll be in a later post).

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I’ll be adding to this list as I find new free meditation printables online. If you have a free meditation printable that I missed, please leave a comment so I can add it to the list!

Free Printable Breathing Exercises for Kids

8 Fun Breathing Exercises for Kids from Childhood 101

Free Printable Breathing Exercises

Take 5 Breathing Exercise from Childhood 101
Balloon Breathing by Proud to be Primary at Teachers Pay Teachers
Mindfulness Breathe Boards by Pathways 2 Success at Teachers Pay Teachers
Catching Our Breath: 5-star breathing by Paws-itive School Counselor at Teachers Pay Teachers
Rainbow Breathing by The Mindful Classroom at Teachers Pay Teachers
Calm Down Social Story-Turtle Breaths by School Social Worker Extras at Teachers Pay Teachers

Free Printable Breathing Exercises

Deep Breathing Exercises from Counselor of the Desert at Teachers Pay Teachers
Visual Deep Breathing Prompt by Rhiannon Fraiia at Teachers Pay Teachers
“Take a deep breath and calm down” Poster (Smell the flower/Blow out the candle) by Flukes at Teachers Pay Teachers
Breathing Stick Craftivity by Kathy Babineau at Teachers Pay Teachers

Bees Breath by Shannyn Fagerstrom at Teachers Pay Teachers

Calming Deep Breath Chart by Counselor’s Corner at Teachers Pay Teachers

Breathe Like a Flying Fish from Plant Love Grow

Deep Breathing Exercises for Kids by Jaime Rosenthal at Teachers Pay Teachers

Breathing Choice Board by Allie Szczecinski with Miss Behavior at Teachers Pay Teachers

Mindfulness Breathing Exercises for Elementary School by How I Decide at Teachers Pay Teachers

Mindfulness Breathing Exercises for Middle and High School by How I Decide at Teachers Pay Teachers

Stop, Breathe & Think: Mindfulness Activities for the Classroom by Tools for Peace at Teachers Pay Teachers

Free Printable Labyrinths for Kids

Free Printable Finger Labyrinths

Finger Labyrinths – Set 1 by Gifted Guru at Teachers Pay Teachers
Finger Labyrinths – Set 2 by Gifted Guru at Teachers Pay Teachers

Labyrinth Resources, including Many Printable Finger Labyrinths from Relax4Life

Printable Labyrinths from The Labyrinth Society

Free Guided Meditation Scripts to Use with Kids

I’ve shared many guided meditations for kids that are in the form of YouTube videos (which don’t need to be watched … just listened to.) You’ll find those in my posts with free guided meditations for kids, free guided meditations for deep sleep for kids, free guided Christian meditations for kids, and free guided gratitude meditations for kids.

Here are some free guided meditation scripts that you can use with kids if you’d prefer to read the guided meditation instead of listening to it.

Over 20 printable PDFs of Guided Relaxation Scripts from Green Child

Guided Meditation ‘Under my Blanket’ by Nurture in Mind at Teachers Pay Teachers

The Hungry Caterpillar – a Kids Yoga Lesson Plan (includes yoga poses but has a guided relaxation and meditation at the end) by Cosmic Kids Yoga at Teachers Pay Teachers

Guided Meditation for Primary Students and Seeding the Heart from BuddhaNet

The following isn’t about scripts (it’s better)! If you’re a classroom teacher, check out the Calm Schools Initiative:

“Under this initiative, any teacher with a K-12 classroom, anywhere in the world, can get free access to Calm’s paid subscription service (available on Android, iOS and the web). Teachers will have unlimited access to our growing library of guided meditations and mindfulness exercises, including Calm Kids, our programs tailored for age groups from pre-K through high school. Over the coming year, we will be steadily adding to our Calm Kids library, equipping teachers with an ever-expanding supply of content crafted for the unique needs of their students.”

More Meditation Printables for Kids

Meditation Printables from Teachers Pay Teachers (long list)

Free Growth Mindset Printables for Kids Every Friday (subscription freebies) from Big Life Journal (I get these every Friday, and they’re great! These are typically growth mindset printables rather than meditation printables, although occasionally there are meditation printables. Whether you’re interested in growth mindset, mindfulness, or both, they’re awesome!)

The latest subscriber freebie included ideas that could make great meditations for both kids and adults. The blog post was “3 Effective Ways to Raise a Grateful Child” and the printables had both a gratitude tree activity and a poster that included one of the effective ways with these suggestions:

Notice and Savor the Small Stuff.

“We can help our children become noticers of the good by…

pausing to notice and “take in” the beauty of a sunset
appreciating a stranger holding the door open for you and your child
stopping to admire a vibrant tree in the park
listening to birds sing early in the morning”

Pausing to notice and “take in” the beauty of a sunset, etc., can be a meditation in itself!

Free Printable Scripture Cards for Kids’ Christian Meditations

If you’re a Christian family who prefers to meditate only on Bible verses, you’ll find a variety of free scripture cards here:

Scripture Cards from I Can Teach My Child

Free Scripture Cards for Kids

10 Best Bible Verses for Children from Wildflower Ramblings
ABC Printable Scripture Cards from I Can Teach My Child
God’s Promises by Leslie Stephenson at Teachers Pay Teachers

ABC Bible Verses for Children (you can print out multiple cards on a page) from Wildflower Ramblings

Bible Verses from 1 to 10 (you can print out multiple cards on a page) from Wildflower Ramblings

ABC Bible Verse Printables (subscriber freebie) from Homeschool Creations

Bible Verse Printables from Homeschool Creations

Scripture Cards (subscriber freebie) from My Joy-filled Life

Free Scripture Cards (long list) at Teachers Pay Teachers

More Mindfulness/Peace Resources

I’m including mindfulness activities together with peace activities because feeling peace within is a great step toward expressing peace toward others.

If you have a free meditation printable for kids that I’m not aware of, please let me know in the comments below!

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