Everyone closes their eyes and strikes a pose. In posture, pose, stance, etc. Watch as the whole team morphs into the same pose! This exercise demonstrate to children how important it is to project their voices. Place three bean bags in front of a row of children. One about 10 feet away from them — the second about 20 feet away, the third about feet away this can obviously be changed to suit the physical environment of the class.
Ask each child to look directly at the first bean bag, say their name and the name of their favorite animal. Instruct them to say the exact same things to the second bean bag. Would they speak with the same volume? When asked to address the third bean bag, they obviously should be projecting their voices as loud as they can.
After the entire group has addressed the bean bags, let them know they were really acting in a play just then — reaching the first three rows, the middle rows, and the back rows of the theater. Good for Day Camp , in stages for an event …and those full days of programming.
In the planning stages, have participants decide on a theme for the show such as fall fashions or holiday outfits ; plan music and which roles children will play.
Help the players plan the set up; where youth will enter and exit—as well as where the audience will sit. Make a list of special clothing to wear during the show and any other props you may need. Second session: Give members time to set up the show and get organized. Get the audience seated a let the show begin!
Think of all the silliness you can! Of course, there was also the fantasy make-up. It was great fun!!! Barb Shelby. Choose children to participate and have them recreate the story. They can make up the lines or you can reread or tell it as they act it out. A variation is to divide the students into small groups. Have each group pick a story and provide time for them to read it, choose parts and practice acting it out.
You may not at first see this as a drama game—but it is! Have each player in turn describe a food that they cannot stand to eat. Encourage as much detail as possible so that the other group members are disgusted by the food, too.
Before the meeting, gather several empty plastic bottles with caps. Fill each bottle with a different material-such as dried peas, pebbles, marbles, sand, and birdseed.
Put the caps back on and cover the bottles with construction paper so the materials inside are hidden. Ask group members to listen to the sound each bottle makes and guess what is inside it.
See the range of meaning you can communicate through voice inflection, facial expression and gestures. The first two people in each line begin a conversation. That speaker then goes to the end of the line and the conversation continues between the new speakers at exactly the point it was interrupted.
The rest of the group stands in a circle. There are also skill cards that push your creativity and quick thinking to higher levels! Even if you've never done improvisation before, there are various ways to play, and beginner modes as well as more advanced methods. If you're a fan of shows like "Who's line is it Anyway? This is a great way to bring your love of performance and comedy into the social relm for you and your friends!
Explore New to Improvisation? Improvisation is just performing and making it up as you go along. You work with the other members on your team and build upon what is said or done, generally to humourous effect. Even if you've never done improvisation before, it's a useful skill for public speaking and team building.
There are lots of resources online to help you and we have compiled some resources to get you started! Tip: encourage your students to be clear and direct. Also make sure that all the students get a turn.
This game is played by professional theatre companies, and can also work really well with late primary and high school kids. Tip: Stress the importance of keeping the rhythm steady. Groups tend to naturally speed up quite quickly. Students often find this game particularly funny, so try to keep them focused. Tip: If the rhythm is too confusing, try a simple game of word association around the circle instead.
A warm-up classic! Tip: Enforce a rule saying whoever is sheriff has final say. Students will learn to police fairness themselves and treat each other with respect and honesty.
More students will get themselves out not listening or reacting than they will actually being slow. This games works as a great warm up for more extensive improvisations. Tip: This can be a great exercise for talking about improv basics with younger students: talk about status not walking into the space with more power than the first student.
Tip: Ask students what they might be able to do interpret a pose in an unexpected way: could a karate chop be a handshake? Difficulty: medium Age Range: all ages Learning Outcomes: vocal projection, movement, confidence, writing.
This is a great improvisation game. This is arguably the most famous of all improvisation games, and is played slightly different all over the world. Here is my version:. Tip: Try to encourage a diverse range of scenarios. You often see the same stuff over and over. Tip: This can work with larger groups of up to 12 students. You may need to keep track of scenarios to help them along. This game requires a bit of set-up and explanation for a class, but is a fun improv game that is both entertaining to participate in and watch for larger groups.
Tip: Make sure you encourage your watching students to be friendly and warm audience members. Encourage laughter, cheering and applause at the appropriate times. Once you have played a few basic games you might want to up the difficulty level and explore some longer form improvisational games.
These are best played with 15 years and up high schooler groups, beginner adult groups or experienced actors looking to work their craft in a different way. Difficulty : Medium Ages : 15 and up Learning Outcomes: acting, writing, team-building, characterisation. This game is all about creating a scene using minimal dialogue. Write these four phases on a whiteboard or an easily accessible surface that the performers can see. Pick two people to get up onstage, they must create a scene and tell a story using only these phases as dialog.
Get suggestions from the audience about their characters relationship, environment and what happened last time they saw each other. Encourage them to really focus on telling the story with their vocal and physical choices within the limits of the specified dialog above.
Difficulty : Challenging Ages : 15 and up Learning Outcomes: acting, writing, characterisation. Once the group has got a hold of the above exercise the next step is to raise the stakes while offering the performers a degree of freedom — they are no longer required to stick to the 4x lines. For this next exercise, get two actors up on stage and ask the audience for the following:. Once you have all of that, take one of the performers off stage and give them a secret.
Encourage them to reveal their secret at an appropriate time in the scene. I did this with a group of actors a little while ago with fantastic results.
The scene was in a teachers office, the relationship was a teacher and their student and last time they met the students parents had complained that their daughters grades were bad.
I took the actress aside and gave her a secret that she was pregnant and the baby was the teachers. The scene that played out took about 15 minutes and it was completely enthralling. Tip : Please ensure that the secrets and scenes you assign to your group are appropriate for their age range and maturity level.
Difficulty : Hard Ages : 15 and up Learning Outcomes: acting, writing, characterisation. Once you have played out both of the above scenarios, the group will be well acquainted with the setup, now we can let them roam free in the storytelling wilderness and see what they come up with. Put two people onstage, give them one minute to chat, they need to set up a relationship, an environment and a recent history. Send one of them out of the room and tell them to come up with a relevant secret.
Difficulty: easy Age Range: all ages Learning Outcomes: movement, teamwork, storytelling. I have seen this game work really well with all ages. With large groups, getting students to go away and create something and then come back and perform is really effective. This game encourages creativity and physical expression. Tip: give both the group performing and those guessing positive feedback if they are successful.
Difficulty: easy Age Range: all ages Learning Outcomes: movement, listening, concentration. This is a really easy physical game for all ages. Tip: Think of some really fun name of the corner. Kids, and adults for that matter, love being involved in decisions!
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