Balance Exercise Ball Chairs BE THE FIRST TO KNOW share with a friend add to wishlist add to wishlist Add to Order add to wishlist add to wishlist Balls Chairs are balls with tiny feet that make a great classroom seat; they help kids (and adults) get their wiggles out by encouraging subtle bouncing/rocking movements without getting up from their seats!  These seats naturally help facilitate paying attention, sitting up straighter, and strengthening back muscles. Nice for classrooms and the office as the little feet are designed to keep ball chairs from rolling away when they aren't in use.  *Please note the manufacturer and colors have changed for some sizes of our Chair Balls (as Fitball Ball Chairs are no longer being made). **The easiest way to determine the optimal size ball chair is to measure a child's arm length from their arm pit to their middle finger tip, then select the ball chair that is closest in size to that measurement.  For example, if the measurement is 19" you would choose the 18" ball chair (vs. our 22" model)!

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Rectangular Gel Weighted Lap Pad Velcro Fidget Strips™ (for under desks and chairs) Fiddle Sits Fidget Mats Adjustable Height Round T-Stools * Click Photo For Product Pricing And DetailsExercise Balls in the Classroom? Donna Yehl's fourth-grade students bob behind their desks, heads going up and down as if they sat on the deck of a rolling ship. But it's not a bad case of fidgeting. The two dozen kids in Yehl's classroom do all of their classwork perched on exercise balls. The multicolored inflatable balls are commonly used in Pilates and other exercise classes. They're still a rare sight in classrooms, but teachers increasingly find they provide a multitude of benefits, saying they sharpen attention and improve posture. At the end of the last school year, Yehl took to the Internet seeking creative ways to help her restless pupils sit still. She stumbled on a story about exercise balls and improved concentration, and opted to replace the kids' metal and plastic chairs with bouncy balls about 21 inches high, in colors the kids selected for themselves.

Yehl found herself an almost immediate convert. "They're more focused," Yehl said. Ball chairs are popping up in classrooms in places such as Pennsylvania and Ontario, Canada. Lisa Witt, whose Wisconsin-based company WittFitt sells exercise ball chairs for classroom use, reports a sharp increase in customers, from just one in 2004 to more than 300 schools across the country and abroad. "Some people initially think, 'Are you crazy?' " said Witt, a former elementary school teacher in Colorado who started her company after seeing improvements in students who used exercise balls as chairs. She said she soon discovered physical benefits as well as others. "It's just plain fun," she said. And the kids often agree. Emily Ziemba, 10, a student in Yehl's class, laughs and nods when asked if she likes sitting on an exercise ball. "I mean, sometimes I would like to lean back," she said. "But other times, it's better than a chair." Teachers say children on ball chairs often quit flopping over on their desks.

And although they can't lean far back anymore, they're getting enough exercise to improve concentration. Subconscious mental activity lies at the core of the science behind the balls' success, experts say. Indications are that the tiny movements kids make while balancing stimulate their brains and help them focus, says Dr. John Ratey, a Harvard University professor and author of books including "Driven To Distraction" and "Spark." Children with attention disorders, he said, have "a sleepy cortex," and exercise combats that mental disengagement. "Just by using their core muscles more, they're flipping (their cortex) on," he said. Using more muscles "causes the prefrontal cortex to get turned on, which does a lot of things, including inhibiting impulses." John Kilbourne, a professor of movement science at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, says he has seen the proof firsthand. Kilbourne conducted an experiment last year with college students who used exercise balls as chairs and reported their results earlier this year.