Brain break bops

What are Brain break bops?

Brain break bops are interoception activities for pre-school and early primary school students.

Building interoceptive awareness (feeling more connected with your body and your bodily signals) requires students to actively notice changes in their body state. To do this, students complete a movement for thirty seconds, and pause to reflect, before completing it for a second time. Each activity has been timed to support this structure in an engaging way.

Videos

The animated videos are two-minutes long. They all feature an interoception movement, plus other fun dance moves and memorable song lyrics.

Some of the videos are calming and relaxing, while others are more energising. They include a range of positions, such as sitting, lying down, or standing up, and can be adapted to suit your classroom (for example, sitting on either a mat or a chair).

Songs

Each of the activities includes a downloadable song. Once your students are familiar with the actions, you may find that they can follow along to the song without needing the visual prompt of the video.

Posters

The activity posters show the primary interoception movement with instructions and prompting questions. You can display the posters around your classroom, or keep them in a quiet space, as a reminder for students to use the activities to emotionally self-regulate. We recommend printing posters in A3 for ease of reading the text.

About the characters

The animated characters demonstrating the interoception activities have been adapted from Early Learning Languages Australia (ELLA). You might like to download each character's activity card, which are best printed in A6.