Brain Break Kit

Here is a kit that I composed based on little activities or brain breaks that I have experienced. I made them up into cards for convenience. The general principle is that students' attention span is a minute/year of age. If that seems like too short a time, definitely change activities every 15 minutes or provide a brain break.

For the activity cards, click here.

For ease of access, I colour matted my cards according to approximate time needed. A purple card in my deck would take about 5 minutes of class time, whereas a pink card might take 5 seconds.

Fun Brain Break Idea!

Plates: Have kids all put a paper plate on their head. Have them move about the room (this can be done to music). If their plate falls, they are frozen and someone else has to bend down without having their plate fall off their head and put it back on their classmates head. The object is to keep everyone in the game. Not only does this activity work on balance, it is cooperative too! This will help keep all students feeling included as well as build the classroom community. 


This and many more great ideas on:
Proteacher.net - Quick Brain Breaks