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The Slow & Calm Tracing Book

PawSteps · Mindful Pencil Journeys · All Ages
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✔ 6 pages of slow, soothing pencil paths
✔ Warm-up lines → animal journeys → breathing shapes
✔ Builds fine motor control AND calm focus
✔ The rule: the SLOWER you trace, the better you're doing
✔ Lovely for morning settle time, therapy warm-ups or bedtime wind-down
© PawSteps · For personal & classroom use — not for resale or sharing.
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Warm-Up Lines

🐢 Turtle rules: pencil on the green dot ●, trace the dashed path sloooowly to the finish, and don't let your pencil fly away! Breathe gently as you go.
Straight ahead — steady and smooth
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Gentle hills — up and over, up and over
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Mountain zigzag — sharp corners, slow turns
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Loop-the-loops — round and round we go
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Big waves — breathe IN going up, OUT coming down
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🌟 Finished? Do your favourite line ONE more time — even slower. Could you trace it with your eyes closed?
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Animal Journeys

🐌 Help each animal home! Trace the path from the animal to its goal. Slow and steady — you're moving at animal speed now.
🐌 Snail's spiral snooze — wind into the middle of the shell
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🐍 Snake slithers to the sunny rock — smooth S-shapes
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🐝 Bee's loopy flight to the flower — busy loops, calm bee
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🐬 Dolphin jumps the waves home — leap UP… dive DOWN…
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💚 Which journey felt the calmest to your hand? Put a little ⭐ next to it.
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Trace the Animals

✏️ Trace each dashed animal, then colour it in if you like. Start anywhere — just keep your pencil moving slowly and smoothly.
🐟 Fish
🐢 Turtle
🦋 Butterfly
🐱 Cat face
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Breathing Shapes

💚 These shapes are traced WITH your breathing. Finger first, pencil second. Go round 3 times and feel your body slow down.
⭐ Star breathing — breathe IN up each point, OUT down the other side
start here ↓ in ↗ out ↘
🌊 Wave breathing — IN as the wave rises… OUT as it falls…
breathe inbreathe out
🐌 Spiral breathing — one long slow breath out, all the way to the middle
…and rest 💤
🦁 Lion tip: try star breathing before something tricky — a test, a busy morning, a big feeling. Three times round and your roar turns into a purr.
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Design Your Own Calm Path

✏️ Now YOU'RE the path-maker! Draw a slow dashed path for the turtle to reach the pond. Add hills, loops and zigzags — then trace your own creation, slowly of course.
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💬 Swap pages with a friend or grown-up and trace each other's paths. Whose was the slowest, calmest journey?
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