It’s summer! Which means kids yoga camps and time to try fresh ideas that you just don’t have time to try in a regular class.

I’m planning a summer camp right now. It’s 18 hours of kids yoga over 5 days in our Kids Yoga Teacher – Summer Certification. So going through my resources and picking my favorite activities. This camp during the Kids Yoga Training is so much fun and adds a dimension to the training you only get teaching actual kids. Here’s what happens at the Summer Certification and why it just may be for you:

18 hours of kids camp where you actually get to teach real kids
tons of easy to use resources, colouring pages, books, yoga cards, props, all things that kids like, and they are all included
you get to retreat from your regular life and focus on being a kids yoga teacher
you make amazing connections with the teachers and the other participants and for a supportive community

You can get your 95 Hour Certificate from our Yoga Alliance Registered Children’s Yoga School. Email me if you have any questions or are interested: [email protected]

So while I’m prepping for camp I’ll share some of my plans. Here are 5 Kids Yoga Summer Camp Ideas from our Kids Yoga Teacher Training that are sure to enhance your camps.

5 Kids Yoga Activities to Enhance Your Camps this Summer

1. Chakras for Children

Explore the Chakras Each Day of Camp: When I teach kids yoga at a school or daycare, I steer away from the Chakras. The topic is too esoteric for the public domain. But when I teach a kids yoga camp in a studio, the Chakras are perfect for yoga studio territory. I explore this topic from angles that kids can relate to: favourite colours, elements of nature, and super-powers that each chakra hold. Learn more on Chakras for Children in our Kids Yoga Teacher Training and get this free printable Chakra System PDF on this Blog Post here.

2. Mandala Activities for Kids

This includes both drawing Mandalas and making them with your body as these pictures show:

kids mandala workshop - during yoga class the group is seated in a circle and makes shapes with their arms and legs that look like a giant mandala. this is part of the Young Yoga Masters Kids Yoga Teacher Training — Part of the Young Yoga Masters Kids Yoga Teacher Training

Kids Mandala Workshop Meditation and Yoga Presentation, kids hold up the mandalas they created with coloured ink and stampers Kids Make Mandalas - part of the Young Yoga Masters Kids Yoga Techer Training — Kids Make Mandalas with large paper and stamp pads. – part of the Young Yoga Masters Kids Yoga Teacher Training

3. My Song

It can be hard for some kids to open up in class but you you will find that most children have a favorite song. During an 8 hour a day, week long yoga camp I taught, we had a lot of time for extra activities.

One of the big hits was talking about our favorite songs and why they are meaningful to us. Give kids time to contemplate what “My Song” will be. Once they choose, it might surprise you how they open up in class. Plus its very relaxing to listen to songs and hear their meaning.

4. Eye Pillows (and Washable Pillow Cases)

Eye Pillows are a fun one or two day craft and activity that comes straight from our Inclusive Yoga Certificate of Kids Yoga Teacher Training. We use eye pillows as weighted objects to help kids get into their body.

First Part: Fill the first sock with rice or grains. Then pass around some dried herbs or essential oils to smell. The kids can create a custom fragrance in their pillow.

Second Part: Draw on the second sock to make your pillow case. Just follow the directions on the fabric markers. We put the socks over a can of club soda to make it easier to draw on the material.

Tip: The Crayola Brand Fabric Markers boast “Great for dark fabrics” but I was disappointed. So all my dark socks became the inner pillow, and the white socks were for marking on.

I think these eye pillows are better than stuffed animals or Beanie Babies, because you can pull off the pillow case and wash them!

5. Word Games

We developed the Frog Yoga Alphabet especially to help keep kids busy during kids yoga and Yoga Camps. You can print and play all kinds of games with them.

Sometimes people think a Yoga Alphabet is just for children learning the alphabet, but with a little imagination, those letters become words and the words become games and stories! The next thing you know, you are playing charades, hangman, or discussing your “Word of the Day,” coloring it, and putting it up on your wall.

We recommend you keep it “yoga” by doing the yoga pose each time a letter is used.

Enhance Your Camps

Yoga and fun go hand in hand. So when you’ve got the extra time in a Yoga Camp let these activities inspire you to enhance your camps.

What is your favorite activity for a kids yoga camp?

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It’s that time of year when the school year is winding down. Teens are going to prom. Kids are getting lathered up with sunscreen. Teachers are getting ready to say goodbye. Parents are getting ready for a busy summer.

At Young Yoga Masters we’re winding down our kids classes and have some great free printables to give you today for your summer yoga. I’ll explain a little more about my end of year routine in schools and daycare too.

I’m also getting ready for the Summer Certification kids yoga training intensive. The intensive is an easy way to get your 95 Hour Certification quickly, in under 2 weeks in fact. Everything is included in that time. It makes for a memorable summer! Our upcoming course dates can be seen here if you are interested in continuing your education.

Printable Kids Yoga: A Lesson Plan you Print for Children to Take Home

When I’m teaching a kids yoga at a school or studio and there are only two or three classes left before the session ends, I introduce the students to the idea of doing a home yoga practice. This is not only for school age children, but preschool kids as well. I do it by reviewing poses we’ve done that year, providing handouts to take home, and reminding the students of what they have accomplished and already know.

Alphabet Yoga Names

My first choice for handouts are the letters of a child’s name using the Frog Yoga Alphabet. It is a personal touch for classes where I know each child. Not only does it remind kids of the yoga poses on their take-away, I present it as a special award for completing the series of yoga.

I use the Alphabet throughout the series, taking turns doing yoga poses for the letters of each person’s name. I print out each person’s name from the Frog Yoga Alphabet using the 1/4 page size in the PDF. Then in class I start with the first child in the circle or first child who is sitting quietly and ready, say its Michael, then I check if other children also have a name that starts with M. Depending on the age of the children, I may also ask who has an “M” anywhere in their name. Then everyone does “M,” Moon Pose (Crescent Moon).

We move onto the next person’s letter until we do everyone’s first letter.

At the end of the class I give each person their letter to colour as a wind down activity. I collect the letters at the door and use them in future classes till we reach the end of the series. At the final class the children get all their letters and can staple them together as they choose (book or banner are the most popular styles) and take them home.

a girl holding a banner made of letters of her name from the kids yoga alpahbet — Kids Get to Take Home their Yoga Name, I use the Printable Poses from the Frog Yoga Alphabet Teacher Training Online

When kids get to take home their letters, they have a visual reminder of the yoga poses they have just done and can do the poses on their own. The visual reminder reinforces what they have learned.

Important Business Tip for Your Kids Yoga Hand Outs

When I teach where I may not know who is coming, like in a community centre or school, then I give out a generic handout like the Summer Time Yoga or the Yoga Alphabet poster printables below.

One quick business tip before you grab them: If you are a teacher, print up some labels with info on your next class to stick on the back of your hand out, or get a rubber stamp to stamp your info on the back (or have the kids stamp them – they love to stamp things). This reminds parents about your class info, camps, or the yoga birthday parties you offer.

Take advantage of this opportunity to connect with parents and let them know how to reach you for more yoga!

Now, on to the printables.

Free Summer Time Yoga – Printable Colouring Page

Download the FREE Summer Time Yoga Printable Here

Free Yoga Alphabet Printable

a kids yoga alphabet poster with one yoga pose for each letter of the alphabet — This Yoga Alphabet is great for spelling Names!

Download the Free Yoga Alphabet Printable Here
(we recommend you print on 11″ x 17″ paper)

Frog Yoga Alphabet Printable Teacher Training

Discover the Frog Yoga Alphabet Teacher Training Double Pack Here

Are you going to utilize these Yoga Printables? How?

Share some comment love below.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Aruna

Lead Trainer, Young Yoga Masters

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