Stephen Fry Voices CBeebies’ New Mindfulness App Experience

CBeebies has launched Your Mindful Garden, a new mindfulness app experience voiced by Stephen Fry.

Developed with a mindfulness consultant and available now for free in the CBeebies Go Explore app, Your Mindful Garden aims to help children learn and develop mindful habits to see them through the coronavirus pandemic. It enables kids to discover three fun activities each day that introduce focus, creativity and calm, teaching them techniques to help them de-stress and unwind.

The activities include playing hide and seek with the CBeebies bugs, helping friendly fish to pick up colorful scales, as well as recalling happy memories to grow a feelings flower, or calming the mind by raking patterns in a zen garden. The final activity of each day is always something calming—from learning to stretch with a new monkey friend to breathing along with a frog. Completing the three daily activities gets kids a surprise for their tree, with a new reward available to make their tree look more exciting every day.

Your Mindful Garden was developed by BBC Children’s and Mobile Pie with the help of a mindfulness consultant. This mindfulness experience is the newest addition to the Go Explore app, which comes with activities featuring characters from Alphablocks, Hey Duggee and Go Jetters.

Stephen Fry said: “It was such a pleasure to be involved with a simple, but beautifully designed idea like this. I hope and believe that many children will find the game fun, engaging and helpful in their journeys through life.”

Rachel Bardill, executive editor at BBC Children’s, said: “Giving kids the tools they need to help them prepare for school and beyond is at the heart of Go Explore, and Your Mindful Garden is a really fun way for children to discover mindfulness from an early age. Any parent knows that learning to focus, be creative and keep calm are important at any age—and growing their mindfulness tree gets children off to a great start with this.”