Transform with a Chair Activity
This exercise is designed for beginning students. Participants learn how to transform into characters. The activity includes suggestions for characters to try!
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Transform the Chair Activity
Transform the Chair Activity
This imagination-building activity asks participants to transform their physicality as they imagine different environments. The activity includes ideas for places to try! Each student will need a chair.
Pass the Imaginary Object Lesson
Pass the Imaginary Object Lesson: The Drama Skills
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Objective: students demonstrate the skills needed to act out stories.The skills of imagination and concentration are central to this first lesson as students work with imaginary objects, imitating and transforming them through play (part of the first grade objectives). This introductory lesson is fun for you and for your students. It allows you to assess skills and plan the rest of your year. This lesson is part of our recommended sequence in the First Grade Curriculum.
Imitation and Physical Work: Defining Words
Imitation and Physical Work: Defining Words Lesson
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Objective: students experience how to communicate ideas.A Language Arts integrated lesson for students using gesture, facial expression, movement and sound to communicate vocabulary words. Handouts for students are included. Just supply your own vocabulary words. The Language Arts objective is to build vocabulary and read with fluency. The drama objective is to imitate actions and to communicate through movement and sound.
Bop
Bop activity
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This activity requires basic math and counting (only could be an issue with younger students). It is a good mental warm-up and improves the concentration of the group.Bean Bag Hot Potato
Bean Bag Hot Potato activity
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Use this as a warm-up activity or improve the concentration and believability of the group. Three to four bean bags are needed.Advanced Patty Cake
Advanced Patty Cake activity
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In this activity, the participants work in pairs or small groups on a complex sequence of patty cake that gets reflected back for their partner.Circle Claps
Circle Claps activity
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This activity came from a Russian arts education specialist. Russians use a great deal of sound and rhythm in their work. It makes a great warm-up. You can have the group create their own variation to this game.Down, Down, Down
Down, Down, Down activity
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Use this activity to work on increasing the concentration of the group. This is adapted from an Australian game and requires a ball or bean bag.Fabrics
Fabrics activity
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In this activity, the kids choose from a variety of fabrics to transform one chosen "actor" into different personas. Each child should also have the opportunity to be the "actor." Successful groups will treat each other's ideas with respect.