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Mexican Jumping Bean: Jumping Jacks Brain Break

Mexican Jumping Bean is a 45-second Brain Break for kids: jumping jacks.

Difficulty: Beginner
Energy: High energy
Length: 45 seconds
Category: Jumping & Landing

Ages: Ages 4–6

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How to do Mexican Jumping Bean

Jump from feet together to a wide shape with arms reaching out and up.

Why it helps

Builds full-body jumping coordination and quickly raises energy.

What the coach says

The words of this video, from its captions.

Warm up number one, the Mexican jumping bean. In Mexico, jumping beans are famous for exploding out of the ground with pure energy. We start with our feet together and arms by our sides. Watch me first. Arms by my sides. I kick my legs out and shoot my arms out and land. That's one. Let's do ten. One, explode up. Two, higher. Three. like a bean, four, arms up, five, halfway there, six, keep those legs, seven, eight, almost there, nine, 10, yes, shake out those legs, you woke them up.

Framework alignment

PLAYfun: Locomotor
SHAPE: Standard 1 — Develops a variety of motor skills
Indicator: 1.2.2

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