Your Therapy Source Magazine for Pediatric Therapists May 2015 | Page 4

Body Awareness and Spatial Relationship Activity
Need a quick body awareness and spatial relationship brain
break that combines estimation with movement and motor
planning? Here is a simple activity that helps students to
understand spatial relationships to objects in the classroom.
Start out with each student standing up next to their desk.
Have them guess how many baby steps it will take to walk to
the desk in front of them. Once they have made the estimate,
they can count the baby steps it takes.
Now try moving to a target further away with a different
movement. Guess how many jumps it will take to get to the
window. Once the estimate is made, the students can count
the jumps it takes them to get to the window. Return to the
starting point. Now ask the students to double the amount of
jumps it took them to get to the window. The students must
now adjust the size of the jumps and how the body moves
through space to take double the amount of jumps to the window.
Have the students partner up. The students can stand at least 10 feet apart. Estimate how
many hops it will take to meet in the middle. Test your guess and hop to meet in the middle.
Try again with different movements – ie backwards steps, heel to toe walking, lunges, marching
etc. Make sure to remind the students that part of the challenge is meet in the middle but not to
touch each other.

Title: Personal Space Journey
By: Your Therapy Source Inc
Summary: Collection of activities to teach
children about personal space
including many body awareness
exercises and a social story on personal
space.
Find out more at http://yourtherapysource.com/personalspacejourney.html

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