It helps them focus on very specific things and pick up on cues they might otherwise miss. Plus you can play this anytime — while getting ready for bed, while hanging out at a family event, or right before an audition! How to play: Prepare a list of characters celebrities, family members, cartoon characters, professions that your kid knows and that have some distinct behaviors. You take turns taking a name out of the hat and acting as the character. And take turns guessing what the other is showing.
The goal is not to find the easiest way to guess the character e. Alternatively, you can skip preparing the list and just pick a theme. It can be cartoon characters in general, or from a specific show, or it can be celebrities, family members, movie characters, and more. Benefits: Character Charades let your kid understand what defines a character, be it a cartoon sponge or a family member.
How to play: This game is best played when there are people around. But you can make your own variation — the idea is that your kid has to get someone to do something by acting and without asking the person to do it. Example: Some ideas that your kid can pretend to need help with:.
You can turn this game into a competition — you both set each other a task that you have to pretend to need help with and then the winner is the one who gets someone to help by using as few words as possible. Otherwise you might step on some toes. Benefits: This game can teach your kid a very valuable lesson about the power an actor has. Getting their audience to feel or do something is the single most important goal of an actor, and this game helps understand how to do that.
Take a phrase, any phrase, and try to say it in as many different ways as possible. Change up the emotions and the intonation every round and, if you have an audience, have them guess what the emotion was! Feel free to set your own winning conditions — it can be the most different ways, the best quality ones, or the most creative ones — just remember to have lots of fun!
Benefits: Understanding what words to emphasize and different ways to deliver them can help your kid develop a much more nuanced approach to line delivery that will help them stand out in an audition. It also unleashes creativity and builds a strong foundation for improv — two very important skills for actors. How to play: Prepare a list of tongue twisters and challenge each other to say them without messing up. You can find many more fun ones here.
You can even make a whole Oscars-like ceremony if you like and make them feel like the superstar they are. But you can also sometimes outshine your kid and perform better, taking the trophy for yourself. That can motivate your kid to do better and win it back the next time! Playing these games will help constantly remind your kid how wonderful and how much fun acting is. What do you think? KidsCasting does not promise or facilitate employment.
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. 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. Every student from the team must participate in the tableau or the team will be disqualified from the round. Tip: Remind the students about the use of levels and facial expressions at the start of the game. Choose two to four students to start onstage and give them a scene to start such as lifeguards rescuing someone from drowning.
The other actors will need to improvise and join in the new scene. It must be completely different to the scene that was happening before. The teacher selects one person to be a gravekeeper, and they stand off to the side. The other students lie on their backs on the ground with their eyes open. They must stay completely still, with a straight face. They are not allowed to touch the person on the ground. Anyone they succeed at making laugh is alive again and joins the gravekeeper in going around and trying to make the other students laugh or speak.
This is a great game for helping your students learn stage directions. The teacher calls out stage directions, such as downstage right or center. Any students who move there otherwise are eliminated. Try to keep the calls coming quickly to keep the game interesting. The teacher selects one student to sit in a chair and face away from the rest of the group.
Ask the student in the chair to close their eyes. Once all three students have gone, the student in the chair must guess who each one was. Choose two to three actors to be onstage. Choose a director for each actor. The directors sit at the back, and the actors play out the scene at the front. The teacher assigns the actors a scene and the first direction, and the scene begins.
The actors can only do what their directors say. The directors each take a turn narrating the scene, and the actors must act it out.
Playing drama games is a great informal benchmark for where students are at in both comfort and range. Having them engage in games continuously over the length of the course allows you to see visible progress as students learn, become more comfortable and grow their abilities.
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