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Finger Tips This Brain Break Is Usually Easier on One Side Or the Other Finger Tips This Brain Break is usually easier on one side or the other. Try it out and see. 1. Stand up. 2. Make an X with your arms out in front of you. Move your palms to face you with your fingers up in the air. Lock your thumbs together. 3. With your index finger on your right hand, try to touch each of the finger tips of your other hand, one by one. 4. Now take your middle finger on your right hand and do the same thing and touch the finger tips of your other hand one by one. 5. Do this same process for your ring finger and pinkie on your right hand. 6. Now do the process for your left hand index, middle, ring and pinkie fingers. ABC/123 Brain Break 1. Stand Up 2. Use your index finger and write a large "A" in the air out in front of you and at the same time say out loud the number "1". 3. Now use your index finger and write a large "B" in the air out in front of you and at the same time say out loud the number "2". 4. Continue writing the letters in the air and saying the numbers out loud as far as you can go or until the end of the alphabet. Extra Challenge: Alternate saying the letter and then the number. For another challenge, have them write the letters in the air with their weak hand. The Crab I call it the Crab. This is an individual Brain Break 1. Stand Up 2. Put your arms out in front of you and match your fingers from each hand together and then match your thumbs together. 3. Now put lower your middle fingers so that the knuckles touch. Keep them flat against each other. 4. Now un-touch and retouch your thumbs. 5. Now un-touch and retouch your index fingers. 6. Now un-touch and retouch your ring fingers. 7. Lastly, un-touch and retouch your pinkies. Good luck. This one was difficult ITSY BITSY SPIDER Energizing Brain Break You know the old rhyme that goes "The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout..." 1. Stand up. 2. Put your hands out in front of you. 3. Take your right hand thumb and touch it to your left hand index finger. 4. Now take your right hand index finger and touch it to your left hand thumb. 5. Rotate both hands to move upward so that you can now reach your right hand thumb to your left hand index finger. Then keep rotating your fingers and thumbs so that you are "walking up the water spout" 6. Now do this behind your back. Try going "down the spout" as well. 7. Once you've mastered this, then do the same process with your index finger and your pinkie. This is tough. Blink This brain break takes just 45 seconds to do, and the students love it. 1. Stand Up. 2. Blink your left eye and snap your right hand finger and thumb at the same time. 3. Now blink your right eye and snap your left hand finger and thumb at the same time. 4. Go back and forth as fast as you can The Waiter This brain break will see how agile your arm is. Brain Breaks are refreshing and help to get your productivity back up to par. 1. Stand up 2. Lay a piece of paper or a spiral notebook on the top of your right hand without grabbing it. 3. While balancing the spiral on your hand, tuck it between your right arm and waist so that the spiral will now be behind you. 4. Flair your arm out away from you. Again, keep the spiral balanced on top of your hand. 5. Keep turning your arm so that the spiral will get back to the original spot. 6. If you have mastered this, try your other hand. Elbow to Knee Taps Elbow to Knee Tap Patterns This is a stretching activity where you will be tapping your elbow to your knee in different patterns. 1. Stand up. 2. Hold your ears with your hands. 3. Tap your right elbow to your left knee. Tap your left elbow to your right knee. 4. You will be tapping each knee alternately using this pattern: 1, 1, 2. For instance; 1 tap (right elbow to left knee), 1 tap (left elbow to right knee), 2 taps (right elbow to left knee), and then back to 1 tap (left elbow to right knee), 1 tap (right elbow to left knee), 2 taps (left elbow to right knee). Do this as fast as you can. Be creative with your patterns. Use a pattern like 3,1,2 taps Elbow to Knee Stretch This is a stretching activity where you will touch your elbow to your knee. 1. Stand up. 2. Hold your ears with your hands. 3. Tap your right elbow to the top of your left knee. Now touch your left elbow to your right knee. That is one repetition. Do 5 repetitions. 4. Bring your left knee up and have your right elbow tap the top of your knee and then tap the side of the same knee. Now do this same thing with the other knee and elbow. Do 5 repetitions. Hand Shake #2 You will be doing a lengthy handshake with your partner. 1. Stand up and find a partner. Decide who is A and who is B. 2. Tap your right elbows together. Tap your left elbows together. 3. Person A: Give a crossing over low side five to your partner with your right hand. (right hand to right hand) Now do a fist bump with your right hand. (A fist bump is making a fist, and lightly touching finger sections that are closest to the wrist) Person B: Give a crossing over low side five to your partner with your left hand and then do a fist bump with your left hand. 4. Bump your right shoulders together. Bump your left shoulders together. 5. Person A: Make an X in the air with your right arm over your left. Person B: Make an X in the air with your left arm over your right. Now while slapping each other’s hands move them together back to their correct side. 6. Now do a double fist bump. (Opposite hands will be touching) 7. Repeat this handshake over and over as fast as you can. Pretzel Stretch with your Fists You will be stretching and outlining a pretzel with your fists. 1. Stand up. 2. Put your hands clasped together in front of you to make a fist. 3. Imagine that your fist is at one of the end points of the pretzel. Now keeping your hands together, draw the outline of a pretzel. You will be stopping and reversing directions at each end point of the pretzel. Try to do this as fast as you can. 4. Now outline a huge pretzel that touches the ground and stretches to over your head in the same way as before. Palm Tapping Energizing Brain Break You will be tapping your opposite hand palm while keeping a pattern. 1. Stand up. 2. Put your hands in front of you so that your fingers are pointing straight forward and your palms are facing up. 3. You will be repeating a tapping pattern: two taps, three taps, one tap over and over while you alternate hands. 4. Take your ring finger on your left hand and tap twice on your right palm. Now take your pinkie finger on your right hand and tap three times on your left palm. Again take your left ring finger and tap once on your right palm. Now we start the pattern again and take the right pinkie and tap two times on the left palm. And so on… 5. Sometimes it is helpful to say the words out loud. 6. Try to do this as fast as possible keeping the same pattern. 7. If you master this then pick different fingers for each hand. Be creative with your patterns. Use a pattern like 2,3,1,3,2 taps Hand Shake #1 You will be doing a lengthy handshake with your partner. 1. Stand up and find a partner. Decide who is A and who is B. 2. Shake right hands. Shake left hands. 3. Now do a right hand fist bump, and then a left hand fist bump. (A fist bump is making a fist, and lightly touching finger sections that are closest to the wrist) 4. Now do a right hand hammer tap. Person A will put their right fist out. Person B will lightly tap A with the bottom of their fist. Now Person A will lightly touch the bottom of their fist to person B’s fist. Now do a left hand hammer tap. 5. Now while crossing your arms do a high ten. 6. Now do a double fist bump. (Opposite hands will be touching) 7. Lastly do a regular high ten. 8. Repeat this handshake over and over as fast as you can. Be creative and make up your own handshake. I Bet You Can't Do This! Here are three activities that most people can’t do. All of these are done from a standing position. Students enjoy trying to do them. About 1 in 10 can do these. Put your arm out in front of you with your index finger extended.
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