Aim
- The use of a soft body touches on the noodle in order to keep it in personal space.
- Understand the concept of good balance
- Perform locomotor skills and movements safely with balance
Equipment Required
1 noodle per student, 1 spot marker per student
Play Area Set-Up
- Create boundaries for a large activity area with large cones.
- Scatter spot markers throughout the area to create a home base for each student.
- Each student gets a noodle.
Activity Description
- Revise the concept of personal space and Reemphasize on working in personal space
- Ask the students what “balance” is. Tell them a good balance with a noodle is when you can count slowly to three.
- Demonstrate how to balance a noodle with the end of it on your open hand while counting softly and slowly to three. One by one have the students get a noodle.
- Have students try to balance on their Hand, on Palm, on fingers only, on Three fingers, on Two fingers and finally on one finger
- Lead the students through the number of other balance as mentioned below using different body parts:
- Head
- Forehead
- Thigh
- Back of Neck
Challenges: Have them pick the balance activity which they find most comfortable and do it for 5 seconds by making them count from one to five
