Materials you will need:

-Plastic Easter eggs

-Small slips of paper with yoga poses written on them

Prep- Fill the eggs with yoga pose slips, and hide them around the room.

Have the kids take turns finding an egg, opening the egg, and leading the group in a yoga pose. If they don’t know the yoga pose you can teach it along with them. When all the eggs are found the game is over! This game is best with a group that already knows some yoga poses, but you could always include a picture or some instructions to help guide them.

If you want to add a little more fun to it all, hand out bunny ears for the kiddos to wear during the game. (For hygienic reasons, you’ll either want to make sure these can be cleaned or give them to the kids as a gift to keep).

Happy egg hunting!

Also, I know that there are lots of religious holidays and traditions this time of year. I’m most comfortable creating yoga ideas for holidays that I have celebrated, but I’d love to have this blog be more inclusive. Please reach out if you are interested in writing a guest blog post in 2024 for kids-yoga-themed springtime holiday ideas, including Holi, Passover, Ramadan, or Eid-al-Fitr ideas.

One of my favorite kids yoga activities is toe-ga, practicing yoga with your toes! I learned this first as “Marble Toes”, from my YogaKids training, and it involves having the kiddos pick marbles up with their toes and put them in a container. Pom poms are also a fun way to do this, and for a St. Patrick’s Day theme you can use yellow pom poms (“gold”) and a pot in the center of the yoga circle. Ask the kids to imagine that they are leprechauns picking up their gold and putting it in the pot at the end of a rainbow. If you want to get really fancy, have the kids wear Green Leprechaun hats and use rainbow fabric or a playsilk on the floor around the pot.

Materials:

A small pot or container for the "pot of gold"
Yellow pom poms

Instructions:

Have the kids stand in a circle around the pot or container in the center of the circle.
Scatter the gold-colored pom poms around the middle of the circle.
Explain to the kids that they will use their toes to pick up the pom poms and transfer them to the pot in the center of the circle. Say: “Imagine that you are leprechauns gathering gold with your toes… Put the gold in the pot at the end of the rainbow.”
Encourage the kids to focus on their balance, coordination, and concentration as they use their toes to pick up the pom poms and transfer them to the pot.
Congratulate the kids on their teamwork! Everyone wins in this game!

Variations:

To make the game more challenging, you can have them try picking up multiple pom poms at once with both feet.
To incorporate more yoga poses into the game, you can have the kids do a yoga pose back at their mat after they’ve put gold in the pot before they pick up more pom poms.

More Ideas:

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