Spring Brain Moves Activity for Tactile Stimulation

Wondering how to include tactile stimulation in your BrainDance™? Check our Karly’s Paint the Rainbow activity here…

Paint the Rainbow

The ‘Paint the Rainbow’ song is a fun, creative way to incorporate tactile input (touch) into your Brain Play™ warm-up. This activity utilizes brushing, patting and poking movements that warm up the skin, help create body awareness and provide sensory input. Encourage your students to “dip” their hands into paint and brush the colors of the rainbow onto their arms, belly and legs for an imaginative, playful Brain Play™ activity!

Why BrainDance™ and Brain Play™?

Brain Play™ and the BrainDance™ patterns mirror the development of the brain and motor skills that babies and toddlers progress through on their way to becoming mature movers. By practicing these fundamental movements, we strengthen the body’s internal support for both every day and more complex movements.

Moving through the BrainDance™ patterns help fill in developmental gaps, provides sensory integration, rewires the nervous system and reorganizes connections to the brain.

Want to learn more about the BrainDance™? Check out last week’s blog post!