Yoga To Celebrate the Trees!

January 26, 2021  /  Andrea Creel

Celebrate the trees with these fun yoga activities for children ages 3-8.

The activities below are perfect for celebrating Arbor Day, Earth Day, the Jewish holiday of Tu B’shevat, or any other time you want to help your child connect with the beauty and majesty of nature. The full activity list takes approximately 30 minutes to complete.

  • Practice: Tree Pose, Seed Pose, Flower Pose, Sun Pose, Rain Pose

You can use the “Tree Yoga Story” Poster (below) to learn and practice these poses together!

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  • Watch and do the poses along with the Apple Tree song (video) by Bari Koral

  • Sing “Happy Birthday” to the trees.  After the song, take a deep breath in, make a wish, and blow out the birthday candles!  Try blowing out the candles 2 or 3 times. Notice how calm you feel after taking deep breaths.

  • Breathe for the trees!  Trees and people help each other by creating more air for us to breathe.  When we breathe out, the air we breathe out helps the trees, and when the trees “breathe” as part of a process called photosynthesis, they make oxygen for people to breathe in!  We are all interconnected!  Let’s send some air to the trees!  Stretch your arms out wide and take a deep breath in; slowly bring your hands together and breathe out - send love and air to the trees!  Try this 3 times!  (for older children, the terms oxygen and carbon dioxide can be used and the process of photosynthesis can be explained in more detail. Here is a video that explains photosynthesis to kids). 

  • Say “thank you” to the trees.  Trees do many things for us.  Bring your hands together at your heart, and send wishes of thanks to the trees.  Here are a few wishes you can say:

Thank you for giving us shade

Thank you for giving us delicious fruits

Thank you for giving us oxygen

Thank you for creating beautiful scenery for us to look at

Thank you for providing a home for animals

What other wishes of thanks can you give to the trees?

  • Lie down and close your eyes.  Relax your body as you listen to this Tree Meditation for Kids relaxation story (below).  Feel your body calm, peaceful, and relaxed.

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