Statues Speak Activity
In this advanced statue making activity, participants create and revise statues based on a prompt. In addition, statues have the chance to speak! Students will learn how physical and aesthetic choices can communicate ideas.
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Statue Redesign Activity
Statue Redesign Activity
Building on Statue Maker, participants are able to change and alter details of fellow participants’ statues. This activity is also part of a full Statue Redesign lesson that is designed for language arts integration.
Statue Maker Activity
Statue Maker Activity
In partners, participants use imagination and concentration to make and become statues. This activity is also part of a full lesson on Concentration and Partner Work.
Rubber Band Activity
Rubber Band Activity
This is a great physical warm up for all ages! Participants stretch and release their bodies while learning to work with space and follow directions.
Reflections Activity
Reflections Activity
This is a fun and useful activity that can be integrated with almost any subject! Participants build aesthetic awareness as they transform into people and objects from pieces of art.
Tableau Activity
Tableau Activity
In teams, participants create still pictures that demonstrate aesthetic principles such as level, shape, and gesture. Tableaux can be used effectively in many drama and integrated lessons, so the possibilities are endless!
Tableau Journal Grade 6 and Up
To maximize student achievement, download this drama journal for students to use as reflection or formative assessment. For each poem, we have created a corresponding journal page for your students. A drama journal allows participants to reflect on their learning and artistic growth (metacognition). It also allows you, the teacher, to see how students are using the drama vocabulary, thinking about big ideas, and perceiving their own strengths and weaknesses.
Making Machines Activity
Making Machines Activity
Your participants work in concert for this teamwork-based activity. Teams use movement, concentration, and shapes to build collaboratively. This activity can be used to emphasize the body, shape, voice, sound or aesthetics. We created several lessons around the machine concept for different ages.
Landscape Activity
Landscape Activity
Your participants work in concert for this teamwork-based activity. The entire group creates a “Landscape” that others must guess. This activity might build off of the Body Objects one. This activity is a wonderful way to introduce setting in drama and language arts. It can also be used to introduce and practice the role of director.
Impossible Sculptures Activity
Impossible Sculptures Activity
We designed this activity for partner work in small groups of participants to collaborate and problem solve using the body. In groups of four or five, the participants create team sculptures. No props are necessary.
Give and Take Activity
Give and Take Activity
This activity, designed for the older participants (6th grade and up), teaches the ability to work cooperatively with each other as the focus of a scene. Actors learn to “Give and Take” in this in-depth acting exercise that leads to improvisational scene work.