Kids Yoga Card Game Ideas – So Many Possibilities!
Author: Karen Mee
Mother
Even if your child has a disability, moving can be a lot of fun! It may be a little different than for the average child, but there is plenty to do. Such as yoga with the help of the children's yoga cards by Helen Purperhart. Below you can find a number of ideas. Do you have any fun ideas yourself? Then leave a comment below! 
Read the instruction cards in advance. They state, among other things, that it is important to let your child feel whether a position still feels comfortable. This way, your child learns to know and indicate his own boundaries, and yoga is certainly not meant to feel unpleasant and to go beyond boundaries. In addition, the instruction cards contain other useful instructions.
Game ideas
- Imitate what is written on the cards. I myself had the tendency to select in advance what I thought my daughter could and could not do, but when I let go of that and we came to cards that I did not like, it turned out that my daughter could do them after all with some trickery. Very good for the body awareness of your child (and yourself ;).
- Make a course through your house. Some yoga cards indicate a moving posture, others require you to be very still. Make it an exciting story (encountering all kinds of animals in the jungle, for example).
- Find all the blue/yellow/or other colored cards together, draw a random card from the pile or find all the animals that live in the sea/forest. Imitate the poses. This way you might come to yoga poses that you and your child would not quickly find out for yourself.
- Do an 'attitude of the day' together every day.
- Answer the questions on the cards together (for example: Deer: I am a deer and I am careful. When are you careful? Or: Seal: I am a seal and I feel free in the water. When do you feel free?). The questions will make you and your child think and you may learn things about each other that you did not know. 
- The questions are also a good opportunity to learn more about the animals the questions are about. For example Chameleon: I am a chameleon and I make myself invisible. You can then find out together how a chameleon does that and why he does that. 
Did you read my first blog about when I was trying out the cards with Lin:
