School-Age
FromEarly Elementary Children Moving & Learning, Rae Pica
What to have No added materials are needed for this activity.
What to do Instruct the children to make a huge body shape by breathing in slowly and letting the body “grow” as they inhale. They then slowly exhale, curling themselves in toward the body center as they do. Repeat this until the children have grasped it, and then pick up the pace. Ask your students to make the large and small body shapes more quickly by breathing in and out more quickly. Finally, you can ask them to make the large shape quickly and the small shape slowly, and then the reverse.
Why Children will develop and strengthen the ability to control breathing with varying amounts of force. Child learns the concept of accents.
For more activities check out Early Elementary Children Moving & Learning: A Physical Education Curriculum
By Rae Pica Copyright 2014 School-Age