Fun Balance Exercise with Coordination Challenge: Tea Cup Stretch
Fun Balance Exercise with Coordination Challenge: Tea Cup Stretch is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Distribute a small beanbag or other soft item to each person in your group.
- Instruct each person to place the beanbag on top of their open, flat palm.
- Challenge each person to move the bean bag, while in their hands, around their bodies and over their heads, without dropping the bag.
- Allow several minutes of practice to allow time for people to perfect their balancing skills.
- Tea Cup Stretch is a fun balance exercise that challenges participants to practice precise movement control and body awareness.
- Your group will develop motor skills and mindful focus as they enjoy a fun time practising balance techniques.
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Prompts to use +
Distribute a small beanbag or other soft item to each person in your group.
Instruct each person to place the beanbag on top of their open, flat palm.
Challenge each person to move the bean bag, while in their hands, around their bodies and over their heads, without dropping the bag.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Fun Balance Exercise with Coordination Challenge: Tea Cup Stretch. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Distribute a small beanbag or other soft item to each person in your group.; Instruct each person to place the beanbag on top of their open, flat palm.; Challenge each person to move the bean bag, while in their hands, around their bodies and over their heads, without dropping the bag.; . Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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- Where we observed it: The strongest current observations come from Playmeo; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including Playmeo.)
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- No efficacy claims: appearing in this library is not a claim that the exercise is proven effective. Facilitator judgment and context decide whether it works for a given room.
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