Brain
Breaks
Blue – Binary Fun (Maths)
Green – Get out of your Seat
Orange – Oratory Activities
(Literacy)
Purple – Pulse Raisers (High
Energy)
Red – Random
Instructions:
- Print onto photo paper, cut out and stick onto co-ordinating lollipop
sticks. Easy!
- Select one at random (or let a student pick one) when your class
needs a quick 5 minute break to use up some energy, re-focus
them or as a treat for good behaviour.
- The activities are color coded by category so if you want to focus
on math skills you can choose a blue one and if you want to keep
them near their seats you can avoid the green ones!
Rainstorm
Body percussion
rainstorm - watch
http://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=yjbpwlqp
5Qw&feature=related
and recreate!
(Perpetuum Jazzile)
Open Mic
Pick a few students
at random to tell a
joke, sing a song, do
a dance etc.
Yoga
Spend a few minutes
meditating and
practicing deep
breathing. Then do
the plank, downward
dog etc.
Categories
Pick a category and
each child says one
word that fits in
that category. E.g.
“verbs”, “mammals”,
“things that float”
Fictionary
Assign every student
an unfamiliar word.
They give the real
definition and a made
up one and the class
guess which is correct.
Sky
Students take it in
Writing
turns to write a
letter or word in
the air. The class/
their partner try to
guess what it is.
Shoulder
Say two body parts,
to
e.g. “shoulder to
hand”, “elbow to foot”. Shoulder
Students find a
partner and put those
body parts together.
Get in
Children line up Order
in order with or
without talking -
“birthdays”,
“alphabetical by
name”, “height” etc.
Circles
Call out a number
and students must
form a circle with
that number of
students in it.
Air Guitar
Play a popular song
and ask the class to
play along on the air
guitar (or air drums,
keyboard etc.)
Action Dice
Make 3 dice with
action verbs, emotions
and animals on each
side. Roll all 3 and have
the class act it out. Eg.
“jump sadly like a lion”
Memory
Give a list of actions
Jump
for class to repeat. Eg.
“jump twice”, “jump
twice and turn around”,
“jump twice, turn
around and touch the
ground” etc.
Students stand at their Frozen
places and jump, jog on Vocabulary
the spot etc. until you
call out a word. They
freeze until someone
uses the word correctly
in a sentence.
Body
Call out a word from
Spelling
the spelling list.
Have students work
in groups to spell out
the word with their
bodies.
True or
Stick the words “true”
False
and “false” on either
side of the classroom.
Call out statements and
ask students to choose
a side to run to.
Pop
Skip counting activity
– e.g. “Pop 2s” means
the class counts 1,
pop, 3, pop, 5, pop, 7
etc.
Group Count
Start by calling out “1”.
Any child can stand up
and say “2”, then
another says “3”. If
two stand together
then reset to zero.
Coin Drop
Students close
their eyes and
listen as you drop
coins into a jar/can.
Students guess how
many you dropped.
