Breathing Exercises for Kids | Wooden Breathing & Calm-Down Tool

Help children practice simple breathing exercises with this hands-on wooden breathing tool. Children use their finger to trace the numbers and paths while following different breathing patterns, including box breathing, triangle breathing, and figure-8 breathing. The compact travel size makes it easy to keep in a backpack, take on trips, or have available as a portable calm-down tool at home, school, or on the go. A practical resource for classrooms, homeschool learning, counselling spaces, and everyday emotional check-ins. 

Commonly used from Preschool to Grade 3 (Ages 4 to 8+) but adaptable depending on learning level

What will the Child learn?

🌬️ Breathing techniques
Practices simple, structured breathing patterns that children can follow with their finger.

🔢 Following sequences
Uses numbers and visual paths to help children follow the steps of each breathing exercise.

🧘 Calming strategies
Introduces breathing as a simple strategy children can use when they want to slow down and feel calmer.

🧠 Focus and attention
Encourages children to concentrate on their breathing while tracing the path.

💭 Body awareness
Helps children notice and pay attention to their breathing as part of a calming routine.

🖐️ Fine motor skills
Tracing the pathways with a finger provides a simple hands-on component to the breathing exercises.

🎒 Portable self-regulation tool
The compact size makes it easy to keep a breathing tool available at school, while travelling, or wherever children may need a familiar calming activity.

Perfect For

🎒 Preschool to Grade 3 learners
🚀 Ages 4-8+
🏫 Classrooms and morning check-ins
🏡 Homeschool routines and family discussions
❤️ Social-emotional learning (SEL) activities
🧠 Supporting emotional awareness and regulation
👩 Families encouraging healthy emotional communication
🍎 Teachers, counsellors, and support staff
🤝 Calm corners and regulation spaces
📵 Screen-free learning and reflection activities
🎁 Thoughtful gifts for children, families, and educators
❤️ Grandparents and family members looking for meaningful educational gifts

1. Go through the discs and have the child mimic the picture/emotion on the discs. Ask questions such as: What does being afraid look like? What does silly look like?
2. Have the child choose the disc/emotion they are currently feeling and place it in the “I feel” section.
3. Do this daily at the beginning and end of the day or even throughout the day. This will get the child used to paying attention to their emotional state and needs as well as sharing their emotional state with you.
4. Take this further and have them develop strategies they can use to help cope with their emotions

23 cm x 28 cm x 0.6 cm
9 inch x 11 inch x 0.24 inch
Disk Diameter: 4.3 cm (1.7 inch)

Advantages of our Wood Learning Tools:

✔️ Help to develop confidence, fine motor skills and hand eye coordination.
✔️ Engages multiple learning styles making it ideal for visual, tactile, and kinetic learners
✔️ Enhances independent learning  and promotes cooperative play
✔️ Improves concentration, focus, and attention span
✔️ Encourages STEM thinking
✔️ Boosts analytical reasoning and critical thinking
✔️ Helps developing pattern recognitions skills
✔️ ️Will help you connect with the child and play alongside them.
✔️ Designed by a teacher to align with the school curriculum.
✔️ Children can learn at their own pace.

This product is made of birch plywood and (if painted) hand painted with non-toxic paint

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NATURAL WOOD DISCLAIMER
Because wood is a natural material, each piece is unique. The item you receive may vary slightly from the photos in grain, knots, and color. These natural variations are part of the timber’s character and are not considered defects.

CHOKING RISK
THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS SMALL PIECES THAT MAY POSE A CHOKING HAZARD. CHILDREN OF ALL AGES SHOULD ALWAYS BE SUPERVISED WHEN USING OUR PRODUCTS.