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As you may have understood before, proprioceptive activities are of important added value for a child.
After all, strenuous work activities help children to obtain sensory information about body awareness. And they help children calm down and regulate themselves. Proprioceptive activities can also help to wake up the muscles and brain, putting a child in a more alert state and thus learning better. Think, for example, of dreamy children who you can keep on track in this way.
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Some of the best proprioceptive exercises for kids include the monkey track (playground), the snuggle huggle, balancing board , and trampolines. Obviously, these are not always available at a school.
In this article, I discuss 7 proprioceptive classroom activities that students can do independently.
Have the student sit in their chair with an upright posture. Have the student hold the side of the chair with their hands. Then the student presses his buttocks up out of the chair for 3-5 seconds and then slowly lowers himself back into the chair.
Or offer the student an elastic band around the chair legs that he can press against with his feet for extra resistance stimuli.
Place both hands on the wall with feet slightly beyond the arm’s length of the wall. Lean your body towards the wall and back again. Another option is to simply press both hands against the wall for 5-10 seconds with your arms outstretched.
Wrap your arms around your chest or knees and give yourself a big, firm hug.
Use your right hand to press firmly into your left arm, starting at the wrist. Repeat with the left hand squeezing the right arm. But squeezing firm theraputty or stress ball is also helpful.
Give your student the task of dropping off or handing out heavy books.
Have the students put the chairs on the tables. Handy for the cleaner and a nice heavy work activity.
Have the students stand next to their seats. Have them jump or march on the spot. It helps wake up the leg muscles and provides additional sensory stimuli. This is a great activity to do before activities that require body awareness, such as sitting and listening to an instruction. Of course one of my favorite heavy work activities as you can let all students participate immediately.
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