Partner Support Balances

Learning Outcomes

Cooperative balances, counterbalance, space and body awareness, and relationships (with others).

Description Of Activity

With your partner, children create a balance that has one wide and one narrow shape. Partners need to work together to partially support each others weight. Children create different balances with their partner where they are partially supporting each others weight, then totally supporting each others weight. Create a balance where one partner performs an inverted balance.

Can you see ?

• wide base of support
• extending body parts to counterbalance
• tight muscles

You could ask

How can you safely support each others weight? COOL DOWN/ CLOSURE Review Skill/Activity, stretching, and questions.

Equipment/Material Required

Mats scattered in a dened area with an even surface. Children in pairs, matched for height and weight, and with one mat per pair.