Breathing Exercise Visual Cards for Calm-Down Corner Editable

About this resource

A breathing-technique card system that comes with its own data. Most breathing posters for a calm-down corner stop at a single picture; this one breaks six named techniques into their own two-step, numbered cut-apart cards, with a practice log, a weekly roll-up and a phrase bank behind them, so a technique practiced at the corner turns into a line on a page a case manager can bring to a meeting.

The Six Techniques

• Balloon Breathing — a balloon, then a balloon with a pair of open hands letting it go
• Flower and Candle Breathing — a flower, then a candle
• Rainbow Breathing — a rainbow, then the same rainbow with a downward-pointing hand for tracing down
• Star Breathing — a star, then the same star with a downward-pointing hand for tracing down
• Snail Breathing — a snail, then a shell
• Five-Finger Breathing — a splayed hand, then the same hand with a downward-pointing hand for tracing down

No picture can show the ACTION of breathing in or out, only objects and states — so every card is named for the concrete thing it shows, and the reference table on page 7 carries the breathing instruction for that step. Every picture was rendered and read at print size in color AND in the black-and-white set before it went on a card. Cards are 2 inches square.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF: type into the practice log, the roll-up, the family page, the hand-off page and the blank cards, or print and use a pen. The strip and card pages print on cardstock or plain paper; the cards cut along dashed lines. It works offline with no account or subscription. It is NOT an editable online slideshow or word-processor document.

It is a posted, numbered picture sequence for six breathing techniques, and a place to record which one was practiced and whether it needed help. It is not a therapy technique, a behavior plan, or a program of any kind, and it claims no technique calms, regulates, or works for every student. It carries no prompt hierarchy, fading schedule or mastery rule; which technique works best for a particular student is something you find out by offering choices, not a rule this file sets. The goal line and the criterion field are blanks for your district's own wording and your team's own number. The log counts two things: which technique was practiced, and whether it needed help.

Who This Is For

Special education teachers and paraprofessionals running a calm-down corner, case managers who need that use to show up as data, and the families who get the home page sent home.

More In The Collection

Part of the Visual Supports Collection, alongside Calm-Down Choice Cards and Self-Regulation Board, Sensory Break Choice Board and Picture Cards, and Self-Regulation Zones Check-In Chart and Strategy Cards; more picture-card sets are being added to the collection regularly, all on the same cards-plus-data shape.

Pictures (color pages): Noto Emoji by Google, Apache License 2.0. Pictures (ink-saver pages): Fluent Emoji, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, MIT License.