Love this collection of twenty 3-minute brain break games from Minds in Bloom. Here are some multicultural brain breaks from Kid World Citizen.

This Reading Mama put together 20+ wiggle brain break cards. You can find a list of 40 sensory break ideas on Lemon Lime Adventures. These sensory break cards are really helpful! They also have some amazing yoga printable posters. Love these crossing the midline activities found on Childhood 101. They have so many cute songs with actions! Here’s a favorite of ours. Our other favorite YouTube channel is The Learning Station. This is great for practicing listening skills! These are so fun because she shares a story while doing easy yoga moves. GoNoodle has so many videos online that are amazing! They incorporate actions, yoga, and dance into songs so kids love them! You can find them on YouTube or on their website.Īnother YouTube channel I use is Cosmic Kids Yoga. You can download the free printable of these songs RIGHT HERE. I recommend printing them so you can memorize the words or have them displayed in your classroom. These give children the chance to move their bodies and release some energy! They are set to songs with familiar tunes and you don’t need musical instruments or a beautiful singing voice to use them in your classroom. Today I’m sharing my favorite brain break ideas! To start, here are 5 songs from my book. My book is available in my store or on Amazon. In my Songs and Rhymes for Transition Times book, I share 30 brain breaks in three categories: action breaks, crossing the midline exercises, and finger plays. You could use songs or chants with actions, games, fingerplays exercise, and more! Just a quick 5-10 minute break goes a long way! Research shows that children should have some sort of brain break every 25-30 minutes. When you incorporate brain breaks into your day, this helps improve a child’s ability to concentrate when you go back to classroom work.

These types of activities are used to activate, energize, and stimulate a child’s brain.

It’s vital to use brain breaks throughout the school day with children.

Brain break websites