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Shoe Shuffle

Drama Games, Improvisation, Mime and Movement

Develop imagination and mime skills using everyday objects.

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Family Portraits

Drama Games, Mime and Movement

Groups make family portraits by striking funny poses such as aliens, rockstars or dinosaurs.

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Status Pictures

Drama Games, Improvisation, Mime and Movement

In pairs, create a still image where one of you has a higher status than the other.

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Open and Close

Drama Games, Improvisation, Mime and Movement

A brilliant method of performing a series of freeze-frames to tell a story in a drama lesson.

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Sculptor and Statue

Drama Games, Improvisation, Mime and Movement

Students work in pairs and one mould the other’s body into a character, shape or emotion.

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Poetry in Motion

Drama Games, Mime and Movement, Speaking and Listening

Groups explore short or long poems through drama and movement.

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What Are You Doing?

Concentration, Drama Games, Language, Mime and Movement, Warm Ups

Quick thinking and action is essential in this funny mime and spoken language drama game.

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Imaginarium

Drama Games, Mime and Movement, Speaking and Listening, Storytelling

An exciting and completely unpredictable way to use body shapes to brainstorm ideas.

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Ten Second Objects

Drama Games, Icebreakers, Mime and Movement, Warm Ups

Drama game – groups make the shape of an object using their bodies – in only 10 seconds!

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Night Watchman

Concentration, Drama Games, Mime and Movement

The museum is closed for the night. The watchman is making his rounds. But something strange is going on…

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