Yes Let's Resources: None Appropriate Age: Grades 1 and up Instructions:
This game is for students to learn the importance of accepting ideas and practicing this skill.
Put your students in pairs. One person will start by suggesting a task, "let's skip down the hall", the other partner will say "yes let's!" and the two students will complete the task. Then the other students will suggest a task and so forth.
If you want to do this as a whole class have one person start on the stage doing an activity and the rest of the class sitting on the sides. One at a time as an idea pops into their head they can shout out a suggestion. Everyone that is on the stage will say "yes let's!" and everyone on stage will complete the activity. Make sure that students are allowing enough time for the actors to actually complete the activity before a new one is suggested. Continue this until everyone had joined in.
What are you doing? Resources: None Appropriate Age: Grade 3 and up Instructions:
Have one person start on the stage and everyone else sit on the side. The person on stage must do an activity, like bake a cake for example.
Someone in the audience will call out, "what are you doing?" The person on stage will answer but has to say something other than what they are actually doing. They also must not stop doing their action while they answer. So for example the person baking the cake would say "I am making a snow angel". Then the student who asked the question will come up to the stage and they will make snow angels together.
Again, an audience member will ask what they are doing and the newest actor will answer the question. Continue to do this until everyone has joined the stage.
This activity will help students accept ideas, and think of new ones while they are doing something else.
Family Portrait Resources: None Appropriate Age: Grade 1 and up Instructions:
Have either yourself or a student be the photographer, everyone else will be in one section of the room.
The photographer will tell you what kind of family you are (Ex: circus family, sad family, dog loving family, dancer family, sporty family, short family etc.).
Each student will need to do a pose to demonstrate the characteristics. Remind them that they must pose-they can not move.
Freeze! Resources: None Appropriate Age: Grades 4 and up Instructions:
Have three to four people up on the stage and everyone else sitting along the side.
You can either give the students on the stage a topic or location or you can request one from the audience.
The actors on the stage must come up with a short scene on the spot-remember to tell students that they must accept others ideas and continue with the flow in order for it to make sense.
After the scene has unfolded for a little bit, someone from the audience can yell 'freeze'. When they do this all the actors on stage must freeze in the exact position they were in when it was called.
The person who called freeze will then come up on stage and tap one of the actors. That person will go sit down and join the audience. The new person must take the same position of the actor they replaced. The new person must start the new scene.
Party Host Resources: None Appropriate Age: Grades 4 and up Instructions:
One student will be hosting the "party".
One at a time other students will come to the party in character. These characters can be given to them by the teacher, drawn from a hat or decided on their own.
The students will interact with one another and the party host but must stay in character. The host may ask them questions but should interact as if they were at a party with them.
As the part continues it is the hosts job to try to discover the characters at their party. They can do this by saying something like " I never thought I would have Batman at my party before." If one of the characters were indeed batman they would be out.
The part host has 2 more guesses than guests at their party (for example if there were 3 guests the host has 5 guesses in total).