Beanbag on Your Head: The Eyes-Up Circuit

A balance circuit where students do everyday tasks with a beanbag on their head, which only works with the head aligned. Then they compare it with the posture of looking down at a phone.

How to play

1. Free try: walk with the beanbag on your head. Students discover it falls as soon as they look down (3 min).
2. Five-station circuit in groups, 2 minutes each: walk a line, step over cones, sit down and stand up from a bench, pass a ball with a partner, and pick a cone up from the floor in a squat (10 min).
3. «Phone mode» challenge: repeat a station reading a card held at belly level, then at eye level. Notice the difference (4 min).
4. Wrap-up: agree on the «eye-level rule»: bring the phone or book up to your face instead of dropping your head to it (3 min).

Rules

• If the beanbag falls, pick it up and keep going: no one is out.
• No holding the beanbag with your hands.
• On the bench and the line, stay calm and do not push whoever is in front.
• To pick something up, lower yourself by bending your knees.

Variations

Adaptations

• Visual impairment: a partner describes each station and walks alongside; the falling beanbag tells them the head moved.
• Limited mobility or wheelchair users: stations are done seated (passes, picking items off a low table, trunk turns).
• Students with dizziness or balance issues: walk the line next to the wall and skip the bench.

Learning goals

• Improve balance and head posture control.
• Compare screen posture with an aligned posture.
• Adopt a simple habit for using a phone or reading.

Equipment for a class of 25

• beanbags: 30
• gym benches: 2
• cones: 15
• balls: 5
• cards: 15

Teacher tip

No beanbags? Socks filled with rice or thin notebooks work. The common error is tucking the chin to trap the beanbag: fix it with «crown of the head to the ceiling».

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