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Three Changes

Drama Games, Group Dynamics

An observation and getting to know you game.

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Family Portraits

Drama Games, Mime and Movement

Groups make family portraits by striking funny poses.

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Soundscapes

Drama Games, Drama Strategies, Sound, Speaking and Listening, Storytelling

The group is conducted to create a sound picture or “soundscape” using their voices and bodies.

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Imaginarium

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

An exciting and completely unpredictable way 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 ten seconds!

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Guess Who I Am

Drama Games, Improvisation

A fun way of creating characters from any picture.

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Where Do You Stand?

Drama Games, Group Dynamics, Speaking and Listening

A fast, fun and effective way of discovering everybody’s opinions about a subject

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Adverb Game

Drama Games, Improvisation, Language

Guess the emotion/action and adverb in this hilarious mime guessing game

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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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One Word At A Time

Drama Games, Language, Speaking and Listening, Storytelling

A story is told by the group or in pairs, with each person adding one word at a time.

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Night Watchman

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

Count To 20

A classic concentration and focus exercise, where the group tries to count to twenty.

Guide to Freeze-Frames and Still Images

Ideas about using freeze-frames in drama, including 50+ ways to use them across the curriculum and a checklist for grading.

Open and Close

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

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