It is important for all children to be able to relax, but for anxious children it is simply a necessity, because the state of anxiety is accompanied by a clamping of various muscle groups.
Teaching a child to relax is not as easy a task as it seems at first glance. Children know well what it is to sit down, stand up, run, but what it means to relax is not entirely clear to them. Therefore, some relaxation games are based on the simplest way to teach this state. It consists in the following rule: after a strong muscle tension, their relaxation naturally follows.
In addition to this principle, these games also use the ability of children to fantasize. Here, the harmony of soul and body helps us: when a child imagines something very pleasant and calm, his body also relaxes. However, this method works well only with children who have reached the senior preschool age, and the first can be used at any age.
In addition to special gaming exercises for relaxation, it is good to use tactile contact with the child, massage and just rubbing the body are also useful.
Games and exercises
- Fighting
- Mouth to lock
- Balloon
- Magic Journey
- Waterfall of the world
- My pearl
- Get a star
- Relaxation and breathing exercises for group activities with children
- Muscle relaxation exercises
- Relaxation games for children
Other complexes of games for working with children’s anxiety
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