40 Printable Mindfulness Worksheets

The 40 printable mindfulness worksheets are designed for people of all ages to get started with mindfulness in a simple worksheet format. Each worksheet contains a straightforward exercise to bring about mindful awareness and present thinking.

These printable sheets are easy to complete and a lot of fun too. I like to practise mindfulness and I believe anyone can get something useful from practising basic mindfulness techniques. Each mindfulness worksheet is illustrated so whilst adults can get a lot of use out of them, they’re also perfect for kids to fill out and complete. All illustrations are made by me, making these illustrated mindfulness worksheets unique and different from your bog-standard plain worksheets! My aim was to make these printable worksheets appealing and fun for beginners to mindfulness.

Are you new to mindfulness? Mindfulness was one of the key areas I discovered that helps me ground myself when I feel overwhelmed. It is a practice that incorporates many different practices that you can learn yourself.

The many benefits of mindfulness

The benefits of mindfulness are many including lowering stress, anxiety and depression and in some cases, it can help you to be a calmer person. It’s a very simple practice to do and the best part is, anyone can do it, anywhere! These mindfulness worksheets include simple mindfulness exercises that are all practical and fun whether you’re on your own or in a group.

Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll get when you download the printable mindfulness worksheets PDF

This download contains 40 illustrated mindfulness worksheets that encourage mindful awareness through writing and practical exercises.

Included in this download are the following printable worksheets. ‘Focus on the good‘ is a worksheet to inspire positive thinking by identifying things you’re good at, what you’re proud of and what you’re passionate about. ‘Mindful music‘ is a worksheet to inspire you to focus on the deeper meaning of a song and to bring awareness to how the music makes you feel. The ‘Body scan‘ worksheet is designed to help you ground yourself by spending some time concentrating on the different sensations in each part of your body. ‘Bumblebee breathing‘ is a fun mindfulness exercise for both adults and kids that also focuses on noticing the sensations that run through your body in the present moment.

Also included in this download are further breathing techniques like ‘balloon breathing‘ which encourages deep breathing as does ‘dragon breathing’ which much like bumblebee breathing, focuses on noticing the rhythms in your body. ‘Mindful gratitude‘ is a worksheet that allows you to remind yourself of what you’re grateful for in the present moment and why. The ‘setting intentions‘ mindfulness worksheet encourages you to set clear intentions for your day and what you’re going to consciously try to aim to do.

‘Watch your own movie‘ is a fun worksheet that allows you to see how far you’ve come, where you are now and where you want to be in the future. The printable mindfulness worksheets also come with 5 different mindful mandalas to color too.

As well as some simple mindful mandalas to color, you’ll also get a ‘Mindful observation‘ worksheet that encourages you to study an object that is near you. This is important for grounding yourself in the moment and bringing awareness to the small things that we all overlook all the time.

‘Mindful listening‘ is a worksheet to bring awareness to 5 things that you can hear, another way to ground yourself in the moment. Another breathing exercise included is the 4-7-8 technique which encourages deep breathing for relaxation. ‘Mindful imagination‘ is a fun exercise that makes you use your imagination to design a short story. ‘Mindful doodle‘ is another mindfulness worksheet that encourages you to draw what’s in the present moment.

‘Mindful purpose‘ encourages you to bring awareness to objects around you including yourself. ‘What is it like being me?’ is a fun way to describe what it’s like being you by using descriptive words. Included in the mindfulness worksheets PDF download are also a couple of mindful animal coloring pages. ‘Mindful tasting’ is another worksheet that is designed to help you study food to fix you in the present moment. 

‘Opposite emotions‘ lets you think about exactly that whilst ‘Mindful direction‘ is a fun exercise to remind you that we’re all going the same way, just in our own individual ways. ‘Mindful patience‘ is a worksheet to remind you that even though some things might bother you because you want them so much, patience is always important. ‘Mindful touch’ is an exercise to again bring you back to the present as you connect with the feeling of the paper against your skin.

The ‘Emotion awareness‘ worksheet allows you to list all of the different emotions you feel throughout the day, the ‘Like a mountain‘ worksheet is a fun grounding exercise that will deeply root you to the ground and encourage a sense of relaxation. The ‘Brain dump‘ worksheet gives you a place to ‘dump’ all of your thoughts in one place.

The ‘Let it go‘ worksheet is a fun activity where you can write down your concerns (or color the balloons in) and then let them go into the sky. ‘My fears‘ is a worksheet that helps you identify the things you fear and then understand why you fear them.

‘Present thinking‘ allows you to identify thoughts you had in the past, current thoughts about your life and the thoughts you’d like to have in the future. ‘Easy come, easy go‘ is a mindfulness worksheet that helps you identify things that come and go like your thoughts do.

‘My thoughts jar‘ is an activity where you can jot down your thoughts inside the jar to keep them safe in one place whilst you be still. ‘Thoughts to feelings‘ helps you understand how your thoughts affect your feelings. ‘Defining my values‘ helps you understand what’s important to you. ‘Noticing sensations‘ is a worksheet to pay attention to your senses.