Start by learning all the different ways we can be kind to ourselves. The videos and activities have been divided into three sections: be kind to your feels that fosters emotional intelligence; What I Like, What I’m Like that helps build on children’s self-image; and be kind to your body that focuses on healthy habits and loving our bodies.
INTRODUCTION
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The kawanimals want to teach you the different ways you can be kind to yourself.
Purpose: Help children identify what being kind to themselves is. This includes their feelings and their bodies. After watching this video, ask your child if they can think of ways that they can be kind to themselves.
Value: Self-Kindness
Activity type: Video
SECTION 1. BE KIND TO YOUR FEELS
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Omi wants to teach you all about your feels. All feelings are different and they’re all OK!
Purpose: Help children identify and verbalize their feelings and normalize the different feelings whether they are easy or hard feelings.
Value: Emotional Intelligence
Activity type: Video
A great way to be kind to yourself is sharing the way you feel. All feelings are different, and all of them are OK! Help your child see how he or she experienced different feelings throughout the day with this chart, and share your own feelings with them.
Purpose: Help children identify and verbalize their feelings and normalize the different feelings whether they are easy or hard feelings.
Value: Emotional Intelligence
Activity type: Chart
Being thankful is a beautiful way to be kind to yourself. Make gratitude a part of your daily routine with you kids and start by saying something you yourself are thankful for. Download here.
Purpose: Help kids experience gratitude and appreciate the positive things in their life.
Value: Gratitude
Activity type: Reward chart
Having a daily routine is a great way to be kind to yourself. This helps children know what happens in the day so they feel secure and have anticipation for each activity. Create together a routine for the morning and the afternoon using this sheet.
Purpose: Develop consistency and security by implementing routines.
Value: Regulation
Activity type: Routine chart
Sometimes youger kids need a little extra help with gratitude. Our gratitude cube works like a dice, and is meant to be an aid for kids to think of things that they are thankful for. Make gratitude part of your daily routine. Download here.
Purpose: Promts for gratitude.
Value: Gratitude
Activity type: Dice Cube. Coloring and cutting
SECTION 2. WHAT I LIKE, WHAT I’M LIKE
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Omi likes many different things, but no matter what he likes, Omi knows what it's like: it’s always kind!
Purpose: Help children identify what they like and understand that the things they like don’t define who they are inside. After watching this video, ask your child about their favorite things and reassure them that it’s ok if these things change over time. This does not affect who they are as an individual.
Value: Self-Image
Activity type: Video
Now Omi wants to learn all about your favorite things! Help your child fill out this activity and share with them some of your favorite things as well. This activity also serves as an opportunity to teach kids we all like different things and that’s OK.
Purpose: Build self-image and awareness and show them that we all like different things.
Value: Self-Image
Activity type: Writing
An important part of being kind to yourself is getting to know yourself: what you’re like and what you like. This activity is complementary to the previous one. Focus more on what your kids are LIKE by including their personality traits, and share with them what you’re like as well.
Purpose: Build self-image and awareness and show them that we are all different. Helps kids understand that we are all different, both inside and out.
Value: Self-Image
Activity type: Coloring and writing
A family is a group that love, support and respect each other. The kawanimals are one big happy family and want to learn about yours! Include in this activity anyone that fits the family description, even if they are not blood-related.
Purpose: Teach kids a more inclusive meaning of family, leading to acceptance of different types of families and appreciation of their own.
Value: Self-Image
Activity type: Drawing and coloring
Omi is the magical creature from which all kawanimals come from. It can be anything you want it to be! Make Omi different by coloring it in your own unique way. Download here.
Purpose: Build self-image and awareness and show them that we are all different, but this does not mean we are special, we are all kind and deserve kindness in return.
Value: Self-Image
Activity type: Coloring page
SECTION 3. BE KIND TO YOUR BODY
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The kawanimals have amazing bodies, and so do you! Our bodies do amazing things for us so in return we are kind to our bodies.
Purpose: Help children identify the many amazing things their bodies can do and foster body positivity and healthy habits as a way of being kind to our bodies.
Value: Body Positivity
Activity type: Video
Your body is amazing too! It’s kind to you in so many ways! And to say “thanks” you should be kind to your body. Help your child think of all the amazing things their body does for them. Download here.
Purpose: Teach children to love, appreciate and care for their bodies.
Value: Body Positivity
Activity type: Written
MEET THE BODYBUDDIES
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The bodybuddies are special kawanimals that teach kids how fruits and vegetables are kind to their bodies. Encourage healthy eating habits in a fun way.
Purpose: Help children understand that what they eat contributes to their well-being and foster healthy eating habits.
Value: Healthy Habits
Activity type: Video
Have fun cooking up some kindness with these easy recipes featuring the bodybuddies. Kids can help with measuring and mixing but never with cooking or cutting.
Purpose: Encourage healthy eating habits by involving kids with the process of making meals.
Value: Healthy Habits
Activity type: Recipes
KAWANIMOVES
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Join the kawanimals with the kawanimoves. Exercise is a really fun way of being kind to your body.
Purpose: Make exercise a fun activity.
Value: Healthy Habits
Activity type: Video
