Tongue Twisters The Ultimate List! Three Ball Toss Magical Connection. Affect the Player. Stage Directions. How to Begin Creating an Ensemble on Day 1. How to Plan for a Successful Production. Rehearsal Activity: Thought Bubble Tableau. In my years of drama teaching, I have definitely found some favourite drama, theatre and improv games. These are games that I not only like myself but that have worked well for my classes.
They include circle games and you will find games suitable for different sized groups large or small. Some games are not 'technically' drama games but I have included them because they serve a purpose such as focus, warm up, bonding, lifting energy and some of them are just great fun! You'll find more of my favourites with my drama and improv card and games collections which you can find HERE!
Here is a collection of 45 free drama games and activities for middle school and high school students. I have found these games to not only be engaging and fun and useful for quick warm ups, lifting energy and focus but can also serve a purpose in curriculum objectives when carefully matched with drama curriculum outcomes.
Acceptance Circle. Alphabet Scene. Ball Pass Mime. Ball Count. Bippity Bop. Body Hide. Sword and Shield. Clay Sculptors. Drama Freezes. Dramatic Deaths. Exaggeration Circle. Expert Double Figures. Follow Your Nose. Gibberish Stories. Group Freeze. Human Knot. Job Interview. 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. Choose a leader who begins and changes all movements. Everyone else should be aware of the leader but not look directly at him. Change movements when the leader does.
Once everyone has the idea, call back the person who left the room. Ask him to stand in the middle and try to figure out who the leader is.
Choose a music conductor. Everyone create a sound and rhythm using hands, feet, voice, etc. Then have everyone describe exactly what happened in writing, giving as many details as possible. Compare the descriptions. Are they the same? Why not? Have children work in 2 or 3 person teams.
The blob relaxes as much as possible until the statue is formed, then tries to hold that pose. Designate a leader who goes in, around and under, taking everyone with him until a human knot is formed. Then, the leader retraces his steps and unties the knot. Another person attaches himself to it adding movement. Continue to add youth to the machine, using sounds and moving through space. Others enter once they figure out what the first person is doing.
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