Cloud Watching: Calming Technique for a Highly Sensitive Child
Next time your child needs a little help emptying their bucket try cloud watching. Cloud watching is a fabulous calming technique for a highly sensitive child.
For the ultimate calming exercise, grab them by the hand and take them outside to watch the clouds.
Look up.
Ask them what they see floating in the sky.
Calming Clouds
You’ll notice after just a few minutes that they are engrossed in their fantasy world – and calm! To make things even more relaxed lie down on the grass or on a blanket and then use the images you see to make up stories. Being outside in itself can have a calming impact. With the clouds and lots of imagination thrown in, the results are surprising.
Of course, if the weather isn’t cooperating, you can also cloud watch from inside through a window.
Tip: If you want to take cloud watching a step further check out Decoding Clouds: Cloud Spotting.
Over to You
Have you tried cloud watching? What other calming technique for a highly sensitive child have you successfully tried?
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Do you know I spend ages in the summer chilling in the garden watching clouds it is so calming, my youngest son loves sitting with me making shapes from the clouds xx
It’s great for their imagination too!
I could spend hours laying down watching the clouds
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Certainly a relaxing way to pass a day!
One of my kids would always point out animals in the clouds, sign of a great imagination. All kinds of possibilities in these formations.
Lovely cloud photos, I see the elephant too 🙂
I’m so glad you do – no one else came forward and admitted that! ?
We do this a lot! I usually initiate it to make my son not get bored when we are out or at home =) #mysundayphoto