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Command
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Action
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JUMPING BEAN
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Jump around the room
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RUNNER BEAN
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Run around the room (looking out for other people).
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OR Running on the spot (more suitable for younger children than running around the room)
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BROAD BEAN
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Stretch your arms and legs out as wide as you can.
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Walk around the room taking as large strides as possible
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Jump in a star shape
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BAKED BEAN
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Lay on the floor in a star shape until the next command is given.
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OR Lie on floor and Sunbathe
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JELLY BEAN
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Move around the room slouching and doing silly movements
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Wobble like a jelly
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CHILLI BEAN
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Shiver and shake
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FROZEN BEAN
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Children have to stand very still.
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MR. BEAN
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Walk around with a puzzled/vacant expression, muttering under your breath!
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BEAN SPROUTS
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Stand on tiptoes and make yourself as tall and thin as possible.
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STRING BEANS
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Stand on the spot, making yourself as long and thin as a piece of string
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OR Find 2 partners, hold hands and run around in space.
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OR Make a long thin shape
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OR pretend to play an "air guitar" or violin!
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BLACK-EYED BEANS
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Children stand still and 'shadow box' by punching the air in front of them (obviously not touching anyone!)
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Stand on the spot with one hand over one eye.
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BAKED BEANS ON TOAST
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Lie flat on the floor, spreading arms and legs out as far as possible.
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OR Children lie in middle of area as close to each other as possible
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OR Find a partner and lay on the floor
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DOUBLE BAKED BEANS ON TOAST
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Two sets of partners join together and lay on the floor
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BABY BEAN
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Lie on the floor in the 'foetal' position
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BEAN PIE
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Children should all run together to form a group
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The children arrange themselves into groups of four, three of them create arches with their body and the other crawls underneath them.
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BEANY BABY
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Walk around the room, crying like a baby or be like a bean bag!
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FRENCH BEANS
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Stand in one spot and do the can-can
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OR Strike a pose and shout "Bonjour!"
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OR Cross your arms, kick your legs and point your toes while saying 'ooo la la' in a french accent!
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Put 1 hand on your hip and put the other hand in the air and make a circle facing the ceiling while shaking your hips as if you are doing the hoola hoop on your waist.
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OR Strike a pose and shout "Oooh la la!"
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BACK TO BACK BEAN
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Find a partner and stand back to back until the next command.
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SEAN BEAN
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Based on the well known actor and Sheffield United fan. The children stand with their hands in the air - celebrating a goal and shouting the well known sheffield united exclamation : "C'mon you red and white wizzaarrrrrrrddddsssssssss!!!!!!!!!"
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Pretend to play the character "Sharpe", or playing football.
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COFFEE BEANS
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All cough madly (hands over mouths of course)
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KIDNEY BEANS
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Stand still with arms and upper body bent forwards at waist.
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OR Bend over and try to touch your toes!
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OR Freeze and bend into a C shape and shout Chillie Con Carne!
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OR Make a Kidney shape on the floor
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BUTTER BEANS
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Slide around on bottom (indoors)
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OR Make a cuboid shape
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HUMAN BEANS
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Running on the spot (i.e. we humans dash about and get nowhere fast!!!!)
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SANTA's BEEN
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Walk about wobbling your tummy saying "Ho,Ho, Ho".
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FULL OF BEANS
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Dance around really energetically!
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WHERE'VE YOU BEAN?
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Puzzled expression, with hand over eyebrows peering into the distance
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HAS BEANS
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Walk around with a pretend walking stick as if old and frail.
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Point behind you, look behind you, or walk backwards.
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All lying on the floor pretending to be dead.
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Walk Backwards
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BEAN THERE,
DONE THAT!
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Children walk haughtily with noses in air, waving one hand
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JELLY BELLY BEAN
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Students lay on floor on their bellies and wiggle.
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NOT A BEAN
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Wandering around the room looking sad
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OLD BEAN
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Walk round slowly like an old person.
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DWARF BEANS
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Moving around on your knees.
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TINNED BEANS
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Children get into small groups
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BEAN HURT
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Children rub their knee etc. as if they have been pushed off a swing!!
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FLAT BEANS
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You can use this at the end of the activity the children lie flat on their backs.
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BEANSTALK
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Children could start crouched on the floor and grow up slowly until they are straight and tall like the beanstalk in 'Jack and the Beanstalk'.
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OR children run up the bean stalk when you shout GIANT they climb back down and chop the beanstalk down.
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MAGIC BEAN
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Children either wave their magic wand or waggle their fingers as if casting a spell.
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OR children return to the exact spot they started the game in (useful to get them to find identifying features of their starting point).
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OR children skip around room waving a wand.
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BEANIE
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Children crouch down on haunches, wrap arms around knees, and bounce on balls of their feet.
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GREEN BEANS
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Children stretch themselves very tall in a space.
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MICROWAVE BEANS
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Children run around, touching the floor, and jump up (with a PING!) into a star shape.
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MEAN BEAN
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Stomp around the floor looking mean and moody.
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LEAN BEAN
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Children get into pairs, and lean back to back supporting each others weight.
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BEAN HAD
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Children roll around the floor pretending to laugh.
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TOOTHBRUSH BEAN
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Walk around the room, pretending to brush your teeth.
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LAUGHING BEAN
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Children walk around the room laughing!
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CRYING BEAN
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Children walk around the room crying!
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SAD BEAN
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Children walk around the room pretending to be sad!
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HAPPY BEAN
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Children walk around the room pretending to be happy!
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SPRING BEAN
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Children start in crouching position and then spring up suddenly towards the sky!
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CHICKEN BEAN
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Children crouch and scratch around like chickens with their arms folded in as wings. Chicken noises could be made.
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LEMUR BEAN
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Children put their hands as though they are paws in front of their chests and look around eagerly like a Lemur!
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THREE BEAN SALAD
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Children get into threes, one on the bottom sitting on the floor, the next on their lap, the final one on the middle ones lap.
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BEAN BAG
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Children get into pairs. One sits on the floor, the other on their lap
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Pretend to be a bean bag, being thrown between two people.
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A child would inflate as a beanbag by breathing in deeply through nose and exhaling through their mouth.
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BOGGIS, BUNCE AND BEAN
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After reading Fantastic Mr Fox, a year 3 child suggested: 'Boggis, Bunce and Bean' - Children get into 3s, and each pretends to be one of the three farmers (one fat, one short, one lean (all mean)).
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NEVER BEAN
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Children curl up in a ball on the floor, as though they have never been born.
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SUPER BEAN
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Children freeze in an arabesque and can also make a suitable sound like Superman.
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BEAN CASSEROLE
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Children all join hands, or have a group hug!
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WAX BEANS
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Children strike a pose and hold it like they are made out of wax.
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SNAP BEANS
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Children snap their fingers.
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HILL OF BEANS
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"Hill of Beans" as we old timers used to say in reference to something not mattering very much as "It doesn`t amount to a Hill of Beans." The children could do the Mountain Climbing exercise (Get on your hands and one foot with the other foot stretched back and switch legs several times).
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EDAMAME BEAN
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Children have to assemble in groups of three or four, curl up into the fetal position in a row on the floor, as if inside a pod and then pop out one at time.
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BEANO
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Children could walk around pretending to be devious and looking naughty!
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COWBOY BEAN
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Children hold hand in air as if they are lassoing a cow. The children call "ye how"!!!!
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BEANOCULARS
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Lie on floor with a partner side by side and roll towards and away from each other.
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