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Human Knot – An Ice-Breaker Game
Follow the steps below: Have the players stand in a tight circle, with their hands in the center. Then have them grab other hands at random. The puzzle is for the whole group to work together to get themselves untangled. … Continue reading
Quick Cheers
Agnes Tan de Souza Dramatise Vol.3 2007 This is a fun, quirky, short activity that stops rowdy pupils short, and wakes sleepy ones. It’s an especially good activity with young students. Do the following actions and have students copy you … Continue reading
Gibberish – Activity for Vocal Expression
Improvise a scene, completely in gibberish, no translations provided. The scene should be perfectly clear to the audience – we should be able to guess every gibberish sentence, and the story should make sense. Players should establish Who (is in … Continue reading
Mirror Exercise – Classic Drama Warm-Up Activity
Everyone gets a partner. (If there is an odd number, someone can go twice.) Partners stand in two lines, facing each other, about a meter apart. One is the leader, the other, the “mirror.” Moving only from the waist up, … Continue reading
Cat & Mouse a.k.a Streets & Alleys – Great Game for a Big Group
The cat tries to catch the mouse, moving through the maze created by the rest of the group who turn from one wall to the one on their left (90degrees) in order to change streets into alleys with parallel and … Continue reading
Trapped! – Vocabulary and Warmup Activity
This short activity is one that is good for exploring sounds and the muscularity of words. It also builds vocabulary. It’s a good quick warm-up and should be done together with lots of repetition of the key words, interjection of … Continue reading