Brain Break

Question 1

Eye Tag

Answer 1

1. Break students into 2 groups and form circles
2. Students will start with their head/eyes facing the floor
3. Someone will count to 3
4. On 3 everyone looks up, if they are making eye contact with another student they are “out” and have to move to the other circle
5. Students have to look at someone, they can’t look at the ground or ceiling

Question 2

Bumpity Bump Bump Bump

Answer 2

1. Students will break into 2 or 3 small groups
2. Standing in a circle, one person will start in the middle
3. That person points to someone in the group and says either moose, elephant, or cow
4. Moose - student pointed to makes a fist on forehead with elbow straight out, students on both sides of that student make antlers with their arms off to the sides
5. Elephant - student pointed to makes a trunk with their arm straight out from their nose, students on both sides make ears with their arms, one up high and the other down below in a semi-circle
6. Cow - student pointed to makes an utter, fists together with their thumbs facing down, the students on both sides will each “milk” an utter
7. If the student in the middle says “bumpity, bump, bump, bump” before the other students complete the animal named, the last one to complete it goes in the middle
8. If they all complete it before “bumpity, bump, bump, bump” is said the student in the middle stays

Question 3

Two Truths and a Lie

Answer 3

1. Students think to themselves of 2 true stories from their lives, and make up one lie
2. The student will tell their experiences and their lie to the rest of the class
3. The class will then try to determine what story was the lie by raising their hand for story 1, 2, or 3
4. Then the next person will go

Question 4

Frogger

Answer 4

1. One student goes away from the group or outside the room
2. The other students, sitting in a circle, will decide who frogger is
3. The other student will come back in the room and stand in the middle of the circle and try to figure out who frogger is
4. Frogger will stick his/her tongue out at other students in the circle and try not to get caught
5. When frogger sticks their tongue out at a student, that student will pretend to “croak”

Question 5

Trapped in a Cave

Answer 5

1. All students will stand up by their desks
2. Students will pretend they are in a deep dark cave and try to find their way out
3. Students will do their best impression of being in the dark and being scared for about a minute

Question 6

Big Booty

Answer 6

1. Students will break into small groups and form circles
2. Students will number themselves off starting with the first person being Big Booty, then 1, 2, and so on until everyone has a number
3. Students will chant “Big booty, big booty, big booty. Big booty. Big booty.”
4. The person who starts the chant is Big Booty, and will start by saying “Big booty number __”
5. Then the person whose number is called will continue the chant with the beat, also saying “Big booty number ___” or if they want to send it back to Big Booty they would say “Big booty Big Booty”
6. If a student breaks the chant they are eliminated and have to walk around the outside of the circle tapping themselves on the head chanting “Dinken sparkle” until there are only 2 students left
7. As students are eliminated, the numbers are reassigned to the spots that they move (e.g. number 3 is eliminated so number 4 becomes 3, number 5 becomes 4, and so on)

Question 7

Time Warp

Answer 7

1. Break students into 2 separate groups so they can’t see what the other is doing
2. Give each group a small, soft ball (tennis ball, racquetball)
3. Tell the groups that they have to figure out how to get the ball from the starting person, have everyone else in the group touch the ball, without anyone else touching it at the same time as them, and end in the starting person’s hand again
4. Time students and see who can get the fastest time
5. The fastest way to do it is to have students line one figure up each next to the others, the starting person will roll the ball across the fingers and catch it at the other end

Question 8

Green Glass Door

Answer 8

1. Students can sit wherever they are
2. The teacher tell students that they have to figure out what can fit through the door and give a few examples of what can fit through the door (e.g. a deer can fit through the door, but not a doe, a knee can fit through the door but, not an elbow, a tree can fit through the door, but not a stick)
3. Students then have to try to figure out what can go through the door
4. Things that can fit through the door are anything that has double letters in the word (deer, knee, tree, ball, Isaac)
5. Teacher will tell the students if the items they say can fit through the door or not, and students should say when they think they have it figured out and test themselves with the teacher (e.g. Student “I think I have it.” Teacher “Okay, go ahead.” Student “A baseball can fit through the door, but a bat cannot.” Teacher “You’ve got it.”
6. Teacher will prompts students not to tell their peers the answer to the game and let them figure it out on their own

Question 9

Man on the Moon

Answer 9

1. Students can sit wherever they are
2. The teacher will demonstrate how to draw a man on the moon saying “My man on the moon looks like ___, and that’s my man on the moon.” The man on the moon can be described however anyone wants to describe it
3. The teacher will draw it with his/her left hand, and each student must say “My man on the moon looks like ___, and that’s my man on the moon.” and use their left hand to be right
4. If the student doesn’t use their left hand and say those words the teacher will respond “That’s not what the man on the moon looks like.” and the student will have to try again
5. Students will be prompted not to tell their peers the answer and let them figure it out on their own

Question 10

Skitter Scatter

Answer 10

1. Have students stand up and find a random spot in the room
2. Show them the moves do-si-do, swing right, swing left, and star circle
3. Play music, such as “Cotton Eyed Joe”, and have students skitter scatter about the room moving randomly to the music
4. The teacher will call out a move, and the students try to do that move with as many students as possible
5. Then teacher will announce “Skitter scatter” and students will move at random about the room again until another move is called
6. The teacher will repeat until the song is over

Question 11

Pulse

Answer 11

1. Break students into 2 teams
2. Teacher needs something that two-sided that’s large enough to see from a distance to flip, determining one side that is heads and one that is tails
3. Students will sit in a row side by side
4. The students will all be holding hands
5. The first student in line will have their eyes open
6. The teacher will flip the two sided object
7. If the object lands on heads, the students do nothing, if it lands on tails the students will squeeze the next person’s hand
8. They will continue to squeeze all the way down the chain until it reaches the last person
9. The last people in line are waiting for the squeeze to grab a ball at the end
10. The group that is able to send the pulse through everyone and have their end person grab the ball fastest wins

Question 12

Body Graffiti

Answer 12

1. Students will each fold a piece of paper into 4 sections and tape it to their back
2. Students will go around and write something positive about that person on their sheet of paper