Noodle Balance

Learning Outcomes

• 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

Description Of Activity

• Revise the concept of personal space and Reemphasize 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  

Equipment/Material Required

1 noodle per student, 1 spot marker per student 

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.