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What happens to our brains after exercise? Get active with Riley Children's Health Sports Legends Experience® coach Caleb and his junior assistants to find out!
Warm up: UNO Fitness
For this activity you will need:
- Deck of UNO cards or a regular deck of cards
How to play:
- Make sure you have a good space where you can do exercises in a safe space.
- Assign a color to each activity:
- Jumping Jacks
- Air squats
- Mario jumps
- Mountain climber
- Participants line up on a starting line and draw a card.
- The card's color tells you what exercise to do. The number tells you how many of that exercise to do.
- The player who collects the most cards after 60 seconds wins.
Game Activity: Scavenger Hunt Picture Relay
For this game you will need:
- Your phone camera
- Basket
- 4-5 small objects like a stuffed animal or a ball
- take pictures of 4-5 objects you have placed around your house/playspace
How to play:
- When you say go, family members come to you to look at a picture. These objects should be easy to find in your house.
- They race off to find the object in the picture.
- Players bring the object back and place it in the basket in front of you.
- Players have to preform a fitness activity before getting their next photo.
Cool Down
Take a look at the pictures of brain scans in the video. How are the pictures the same? How are they different? How does exercise help your brain?
