Brain Breaks: 9MAR25 - 14MAR25

Author

Noah McMillan
March 10, 2025

Brain Breaks -  Monday

Stand up if …

  • You have a signature dish you are known for making

  • You have a favourite meme video you like

  • You have been to a desert

Would you rather …

  • Frozen yogurt or an ice-cream

  • Sailing boat or a jet-ski

Game: Silent Ball

We’re going to play a game called Silent Ball. Here’s how it works: Everyone must stay completely silent while passing a ball to each other. You can only use hand signals or eye contact to communicate. If you drop the ball, make noise, or throw it too wildly, you're out. Stay focused, stay quiet, and see how long you can keep the game going.

Brain Breaks - Tuesday

Stand up if …

  • You never give up on things

  • You would like to spend more time outside

  • You would like to spend more time with friends

Would you rather …

  • Always receive a guaranteed $5,000 every month for the rest of your life, or take a one-time gamble with a 50% chance to win $5 million but a 50% chance to get nothing?

  • Instantly jump to being 18 years old, skipping the next few years but with all the opportunities and freedoms that come with it, or stay your current age and experience every moment, even the challenges, as you grow into 18?

Video: Taking Flight

You are going to watch this short video. After watching, you will rate it from 1 to 10 based on how much you enjoyed it. Then, think about the message of the video—what was it trying to communicate?

Brain Breaks - Wednesday

Stand up if …

  • You always have enough charge on your phone or other electronic device

  • You would like to have no rules

  • You think smoke makes interesting patterns

Would you rather …

  • Skip all the struggles in your life, avoiding hardships and difficulties, but at the cost of making your life shorter, or experience every challenge

  • A vegetable garden or a rose garden

Activity: Song Trivia Challenge

You are going to play a game called Song Trivia. Here’s how it works: You will listen to short clips of songs and try to guess the title and artist as quickly as possible. 

Brain Breaks - Thursday

Stand up if ...

  • You have sat around an outside wood fire

  • You have grown a fruit or vegetable in a garden

  • You like really loud music

Would you rather …

  • Never get sun burnt again or never get bitten by an insect or animal 

  • Meet an alien or a famous person of your choice

Game: Cuppa Conversation

You can invite three people, dead or alive, to join you for a cuppa. Think carefully—who would you choose and why? They could be historical figures, celebrities, family members, or anyone you’d love to chat with. Once you've picked your three guests, be ready to share why they made your list!

Brain Breaks - Friday

Stand up if …

  • You wear clothes from 1/2/3/4 years ago

  • You help clean your house

  • You would like to own your own business 

Would you rather …

  • Have perfect pitch (ability to identify or reproduce musical notes effortlessly) or the ability to learn any instrument in a day?

  • Have hyper-focus (the ability to concentrate intensely for hours on a single task without distraction) or lightning-fast processing speed (process and understand information in a fraction of the time)?

Game: Pick Your Reality Show

You get to be on a reality TV show! If you had to be on a reality TV show, which one would you choose? Here are some examples: Cooking, survival, talent, competition, home renovation, business, fashion, social experiment, travel, game show, documentary-style, makeover, paranormal investigation.