St. Patrick’s Day Brain Breaks Cards are a great way to include exercise into a St. Patrick’s Day-themed lesson plan. As a parent or teacher, you’ll enjoy these activities as much as your children will!
These brain breaks cards create movement activities that come in especially handy during inclement weather. I pull out this deck all throughout the month as a fill in activity.
This set of brain breaks cards are part of my St. Patrick’s Day theme and I use theme for the kids to transition from a sit down activity to another inside activity as well.
The celebration of St. Patrick’s Day is not too far away. Having a quick, effective, and practical activity on hand is a must from time to time.
This short-duration St. Patrick’s Day brain breaks activity can help with that. St. Patrick’s Day-themed brain breaks make these breaks ideal to use over and over for the full month of March!
Benefits of using the St. Patrick’s Day Brain Breaks Cards
Brain breaks movement cards are a tool that can be used in classrooms or other settings to help students take short breaks during the day to move their bodies and refocus their minds. Some benefits of using these cards include:
- Improving focus and attention: Movement can help to increase blood flow to the brain and improve the oxygenation of the brain, which can help students to focus better on their work.
- Reducing stress and anxiety: Taking a break to move and stretch can help to reduce stress and anxiety levels in students.
- Enhancing learning and memory: Research has shown that movement can improve learning and memory, making it easier for students to retain information.
- Promoting physical fitness: Brain breaks movement cards can be used as a way to encourage students to be more active throughout the day, which can help to improve their overall physical fitness.
- Building a positive classroom culture: Using brain breaks movement cards can help to create a positive and inclusive classroom culture by encouraging students to take breaks together and engage in fun and interactive activities.
How to Use the Saint Patrick’s Day Brain Breaks Cards
These cards can be used to provide opportunities for movement and to build skills kids need in school. Movement helps kids learn better! Just download, print, and cut. You can laminate the cards for long-term use and reuse the brain break cards.
Card 1. Say Baa Like a Sheep/Movement: Children can march around in a circle while making sheep noises.
Card 2. Wear and Invisible Hat/Movement: Children may stand and put on their invisible hats. Have children slowly bend over until their hats fall off of their head. Have children put their hats back on and slowly move back up to the standing position.
Card 3. Count your invisible coins/Math: Children can sit down for this activity. Pass out invisible coins to each child. Lead the children in counting the predetermined amount of coins together as a group. Another idea is to allow each children to decide how many invisible coins they received and count their coins independently.
Card 4. Pretend to bite an Apple/Literacy: Children can either sit down or stand up for this activity. Ask children description questions when they bite their apples. What color is their apple? Is their apple soft or hard to bite? Does the apple taste sweet or sour?
Card 5. Wave Hello /Movement: Divide children into two small groups. Have one group wave and say hello. Have the other group wave and say goodbye. Children can be directed to combine waving with another gross motor skill movement such as hopping or marching in place.
Card 6. Wave Goodbye/Movement: Divide children into two small groups. Have one group wave and say hello. Have the other group wave and say goodbye. Have the children march to the bathroom in a line after waving goodbye to end your brain breaks cards time.
Enjoy your St. Patrick’s Day Brain Break Cards with the free download below:
You can also download my free printable Roll and Color Preschool Math Game for March from here
If you like these cards you might also like this St Patrick’s Day Activity Placemat for kids from my Etsy shop
