Brainbreaks!

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo t, mavo, havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 1,2

CHOOSE A NUMBER!

1. TRADING PLACES                                  6. CRISS CROSS
2. CLAP TOUCH                                            7. JUMP!
3. HOUSE, TREE, ROCK                             8. TWO PARTS
4. BALANCING BOOKS                              9. FINAL COUNTDOWN
5. SNAP WINK                                             10. AND THEN...

1. TRADING PLACES

SWITCH PLACES WITH SOMEONE WHO....

2. CLAP TOUCH

FIND A PARTNER &

SEE HOW FAST YOU CAN DO THIS:

CLAP RIGHT HANDS, TOUCH LEFT TOES, 

CLAP LEFT HANDS,

TOUCH RIGHT TOES!

REPEAT FOR 1 MINUTE!

3. HOUSE, TREE, ROCK

Walk around the room. 

When I say, “House, Tree, Rock”, form a group of three. 

Quickly, one person must be a house (hands joined in a point above head), another must be a tree (arms out like branches) and the third must be a rock (crouched on the floor). 

Keep walking until it’s time to re-group again.

4. BALANCING BOOKS

 Grab a book. 

Put it on your head. 

Walk around the with the book on your head. 

If it falls, freeze until a classmate picks it up and puts it back on your head without dropping their own book. 

5. SNAP WINK

Snap your right fingers while you wink your left eye. 

Snap your left fingers while you wink your right eye. 

Keep switching back and forth for one minute!

6. CRISS CROSS

Touch left hand to bottom of right foot five times. 

Touch right hand to bottom of left foot five times. 

Touch right hand to bottom of friend’s right foot five times. 

Touch left hand to bottom of friend’s left foot five times.

7. JUMP!

Put a pencil on the floor. 

Jump over it left to right and right to left ten times. 

Now do it on your left foot. 

Now do it on your right foot.

8. TWO PARTS

Teacher says two body parts. 

Students pair up and “pair up” the body parts called out. 

Ex: Head Foot (one student’s head touches the other’s foot) 

9. FINAL COUNTDOWN

Teacher says “one”. 

Someone must stand and say “2”, 

then someone else must stand and says “3”. 

If two students stand up at the same time and 

call out the same number, start back at 1. 

Play for three minutes and keep track of how high you get. 

Try to beat your record next time!

10. AND THEN...
One student says a sentence to start a story. The next student adds a new sentence to the story... continue until all of you have shared a sentence, and you have a class story!