Bubble Bath Poem What’s more fun than a bubble bath? This simple poem captures the joy of bubbles and laughter! Students in grades 1-4 can practice action-reaction skills and review collaboration, concentration, and/or imitation. Additionally, students can learn Language Arts skills by identifying cause and effect elements in the piece. We have also included some … Read more
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.
Sound Catch Activity Working on the voice, participants toss sounds to each other and around a circle. You may wish to follow this exercise with the Vocal Environment activity. Sound Catch Journal Grade 6 To maximize student achievement, download this drama journal for students to use as reflection or formative assessment. For this activity, we … Read more
Seeds Grow & The Greedy Little Fish Lesson Objective: students solve acting problems before acting out a story. Sometimes actors face problems in deciding how they will act out a certain part of a story. Getting the students to think like artists and problem solve before playing a story is the goal of this lesson. … Read more
Prop Story Lesson Objective: Students will learn how props support drama work. This lesson for fourth grade students focuses on using props in a drama. For materials, you will need some simple props (described in the lesson) as well as selected stories from Aesop’s fables. This lesson makes use of the Pass the Object activity as a warm up … Read more
Communities Lesson Objective: students demonstrate collaboration and cooperation. The story (included) for this lesson is “The Bad Joke That Ended Well.” This short story brings much merriment and laughter to the telling and playing but also provides an opportunity for students to experience community in a deeper sense. Students begin by discussing what qualities make … Read more
Team Object Vehicles activity In this activity, kids create imaginary vehicles from body objects (see the Body Objects activity for more focus on this skill). This activity is designed for group work of 4-5 people.
Team Pantomime activity This is a group activity that works with Movement and Imagination and focuses more on Collaboration. It requires a list of complex objects that is provided. See Introducing Pantomime as an introduction to Pantomime.
Sport Pantomime activity This is a group activity that works with Movement and Imagination. It requires a list of sports that is provided but likely the participants will be able to generate their own. See Introducing Pantomime as an introduction to Pantomime.
Pantomime: Creating a Room in Space (PDF) This activity is designed to encourage cooperation and collaboration while working with the imagination. It requires no additional materials.