DIY Calming Essential Oils Blend for Kids (Roller Bottle + Spray Recipe)

The school season can bring overwhelm and anxiety to all of us, including our kids. Thankfully, there’s an easy and effective way to calm the entire household! Today I’m going to show you how to make an easy DIY calming essential oils blend for kids. This is great to keep on hand during stressful situations where you could use a little bit of calming.

There’s both a roller bottle and an essential oil spray recipe for two easy-to-use methods. I have officially dubbed this kid-safe essential oil blend “bye-bye overwhelm”.

Just because it’s filled with calming oils for kids doesn’t mean you can’t use it too! You can also use this relaxing essential oil blend for yourself! After all, we moms have a ton on our plates between getting everyone to school, after-school activities, homework, and so much more.

Erika Bragdon is a Certified Essential Oil Coach from the Essential Oil Institute.

Which Kid-Safe Calming Essential Oils Work Best?

First of all, if you are new to essential oils, please take the time to read this post about common sense essential oil safety. We want to be extra cautious, particularly because this blend is meant to be used on children’s delicate skin.

There are many calming essential oils out there, but I wanted to find ones that were child-friendly.

The six essential oils I chose to use for this relaxing essential oil blend are:

Each of these has calming traits that will help you (and your little ones) relax. However, it shouldn’t be so relaxing that it turns into sedating and makes you want to just take a nap. These calming oils for kids should help take the edge off of the nerves that are kicked into high gear during stressful moments at school or home.

I have found this blend works best when all six of the oils listed above are used. However, if you don’t have them all on hand, you can omit the spikenard and patchouli.

Which Essential Oil Brand is Best?

For the best results, you will want to choose a high-quality essential oil brand that is 100% pure and offers third-party testing for quality control. Read this post for more info on how to choose essential oils that work for you and your family (beyond the brand.)

My favorite essential oil company is Rocky Mountain Oils, followed by Eden’s Garden, and Ancient Apothecary by Dr. Axe.

How to Make the “Bye-Bye Overwhelm” Calming Essential Oils Blend

Okay, let’s talk about how to make this blend. I’m going to give you two different methods – a roll-on and a spray. Choose whichever works best for your family…or both!

Supplies Needed:

You’ll need to have:

4 oz glass spray bottle
Essential Oil Roller Ball Bottle
Witch Hazel (I prefer this alcohol-free version)
Fractionated Coconut Oil
Lavender essential oil
Frankincense essential oil
Cedarwood essential oil
Spikenard essential oil
Copaiba essential oil
Patchouli essential oil

Note: If you don’t have all of the above oils, I highly recommend using Lavender, Cedarwood, Copaiba, and Frankincense. Those are our favorites, but the whole combination works quite well together.

How to Make a Relaxing Spray for Kids

First, I’m going to show you how to make the spray. This can be great for even teachers to use in their classrooms to help kids calm their nerves with this new school year upon them. Or even get it out and spray all over the room during tests!

At home, spray it before school, while kids are working on difficult homework or studying for a test. Or spray it in their bedrooms at night if they are nervous at bedtime thinking about school.

coconut oil, witch hazel and a spray bottle

For this spray, you will want to add 4-5 drops each of spikenard, frankincense, copaiba, patchouli, lavender, and cedarwood essential oils to your empty glass 4 oz. bottle. (Note: use 3 drops each for children under age 10.)

making a relaxing essential oil spray for kids

Then add 3 tablespoons of Thayer’s Rose Scented Witch Hazel. I like using the rose-scented version because it adds a pleasant flowery smell to the oil blend.

Next, add one tablespoon of fractionated coconut oil. The addition of the coconut oil helps mix the essential oils in with the water and witch hazel. After the coconut oil is added, top of the rest of the 4 oz bottle with water.

Shake your bottle gently and spray in a room where you want to encourage those to remain calm, regain focus, and help overcome feelings of being overwhelmed.

woman spraying a blend of relaxing essential oils

This is also great for us moms! I love this blend too! I keep a bottle in our bedroom and spray the linens with it before bed on particularly stressful days

spray bottle next to roller ball of essential oils

DIY Relaxing Essential Oil Roller Bottle for Kids

You can also put this blend in a roller bottle, so it can be directly applied to the skin. Adding it directly to your skin is a more potent way to get the relaxing oils to work. The roller ball is also great because you can stick one in your kids’ backpack so they bring it to school and apply it as needed.

(Note: you may want to send a note to your child’s teacher &/or school nurse letting them know, especially if your children are younger. I do this, and the school is great about it!)

$fractionated coconut oil next to an open roller ball with a funnel$

For this roller bottle recipe, start by getting the small funnel that comes with the roller bottles and add that to the top. Then add 2 drops each of the 6 oils: spikenard, frankincense, copaiba…

adding spikenard essential oil to a roller ball to create a relaxing essential oil blend

… patchouli, lavender, and cedarwood essential oils, for a total of 12 drops.

If your child is younger than 5 or 6, decrease the drops to 1 drop each for a total of 6 drops.

Then add one teaspoon of fractionated coconut oil and top off the roller bottle with water. Then you can pop the roller top back in and your DIY relaxing essential oil roller bottle is ready to use!

I would recommend rolling this on your child’s feet if they are feeling very overwhelmed at home. At school, or for easier/faster use, swipe this on their wrist(s) or the back of their neck as needed.

How to Use this Oil Blend

Moms – we might want one in our purse for when we want to use it for ourselves or for out-and-about use with our children.

When we face overwhelming situations, it’s a good idea to take some extra deep breaths and remind ourselves that we are not in full control and we will be ok. Our kids need our guidance to teach them these same coping mechanisms. The addition of this essential oil blend for kids can also be a great tool to help soothe nerves when they are running high.

Hopefully, everyone will have a peaceful transition as school starts up again, but inevitably we will all encounter a time when feelings of anxiety take over. I hope you can make this DIY relaxing essential oil blend for kids and add it to your tool chest as a way to help us keep moving forward, whatever comes our way!

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Comments

Samantha Kellgren says

July 3, 2019 at 9:10 am

I have all of these oils!! This will definitely me, and my 17 month old just started a toddler Montessori program a few mornings a week so rolling it on him before we go can help this transition. Always looking for natural ways to boost our mood 🙂

Jessica says

June 1, 2021 at 8:50 am

This diy is very helpful and useful to me. Thanks for sharing this with us. I use overwhelming oil when travelling cause I have a seasickness and I think this article will help me make one myself.

“Bye-Bye Overwhelm” DIY Relaxing Essential Oil Blend for Kids | Roller Blend + Spray

Erika Bragdon is a Certified Essential Oil Coach from the Essential Oil Institute.