Okay, so our drama class started this week and it was so awesome. I have a special place in my heart for drama because I have always been involved in it in some way. When I finished my English degree, I was given the opportunity to work for a drama company, teaching children from ages 4-16 dance, music, and theatre all at once.
My favourite aspect was always the acting. I loved the warm up games that brought us all together and made us feel like a community.
My goal for creating a resource for drama is to come up with something practical for Occasional Teaching. For me, that is a realistic future of the next few years. This means that making a resource that has 50 minute lessons, or small activities that can be done in a classroom. I definitely want to compile some quick, easy-to-prep games so I can use them in the near future.
Games of the Week:
quick, easy to do game:
Fruit Bowl / Anyone Who?
A classic game than can be adapted and used in a variety of ways.
How Do I Play It?
Students begin in a circle (ideally on a chair but doesn’t have to be).
Label the children with a type of fruit approx 5 – banana, apple, cherry, strawberry, pineapple. Repeat the sequence until every child is labelled with a fruit.
To check they remember and as a practice call out each fruit and get the students to raise their hand when their fruit is called.
Now explain that you will call out a fruit and those who are that fruit must change places (not with people sat next to them). If you call out "fruit bowl" everyone moves.
If the excitement is growing or the focus is drifting instead of calling out mime or mouth the fruit.
Variations
You can change the theme from fruit to anything. You can also adapt the way they move and change places e.g. hop, like you’re on the moon, skip etc...
Participants
Whole Group
Expertise
Novice
Duration
Short (5 mins or less)
Skills
Spatial Awareness
Source
longer game:
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