FLEXTANGLE TEMPLATE | MINDFUL ART ACTIVITY | SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING

*PRINT ON CARD STOCK PAPER FOR BEST RESULTS*

A flextangle (known as a kaleidocycle) can be used as a breathing and calming tool to help students relax and be more mindful. As students calmly and gently rotate the flextangle with their hands and fingers. You can ask students to take deep breaths, if they are comfortable doing so, while they concentrate on the incredible patterns they create.

Students will follow the following flextangle worksheet to create their own flextangle. Have students follow the letter format given, in order to accordingly colour in their flextangle. Then, students will cut out their template, fold and glue it together.

There are many step by step videos on youtube for students to follow.

Materials:

•Flextangle template

•Crayons, pencil crayons or markers

•Scissors

•Glue stick