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Golden Jacks: Jumping Jacks Brain Break

Golden Jacks is a 2-minute Brain Break for kids: jumping jacks.

Difficulty: Beginner
Energy: High energy
Length: 1 minute 32 seconds
Category: Jumping & Landing

Ages: Ages 4–6

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How to do Golden Jacks

Move from a narrow pencil shape to a wide star with coordinated arms and legs.

Why it helps

Builds jumping rhythm, coordination, and full-body warm-up.

What the coach says

The words of this video, from its captions.

Before we ride we have to polish the gold. First we need to learn the golden jack. It's a big move so let's build it piece by piece. Start with the wings. Glue your feet together like a pencil. Now fly your wings all the way up to the top and clap and all the way down. Up, down. Perfect. Great wings. Now the legs, hands on the hips. We're going to jump our feet open and closed. Open, closed. Nice! Now put it together. Start like a pencil. Arms up, feet open, clap at the same time. Arms down, feet standing. That counts as one. We are going to do... Ten golden jacks. Make yourself huge. Are you ready? Pencil. Star. That's one. Pencil. Star. That's two. You look like a firework. Three. Four. Big clap at the top. Six. Strong legs. Beautiful wings. Nine, ten, shine! Nice wings!

Framework alignment

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

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