Improv and Drama Games Video Tutorials

Clap Around

This unique clapping game requires extreme focus!

Environmental Soundtrack

Students work together to create soundscapes of specific places.

Woosh

Students learn to act and react quickly in this fast-paced focus game.

Zip Zap Zop

One page worksheet to help you identify objectives for your class.

Captain on Deck

This hilarious game is a complex version of Simon Says.

Gibberish

Students learn to use inflection instead of actual words to communicate in this classic theatre game.

Point, Nod, Move

Students learn to listen and react by following a specific series of commands.

Boppity Bop Bop

Students create pictures in trios in this fast-paced focus game.

Spacewalk 1

Students move about the space in different ways, following ever-changing commands from the instructor.

Spacewalk 2

Different areas of the room are given qualities such as a ‘magnetic wall,’ and a ‘slippery pond.’ Students explore the room moving differently in each zone.

Group Stop

In this whole-group exercise, students learn to move together as one unit.

Mirror

In pairs, students become ‘mirrors’ of each other.

Diamonds

In groups of four (shaped like a diamond) students take turns leading the group in a mirrored dance/series of movements.

Become

Students become objects, animals and more in this whole-group activity.

Ten Second Objects

In trios, students work together to immediately create machines, objects and animals with their bodies.

Ten Second Tableaus

In small groups, students work together to create images of specific places with their bodies.

Bad Monkey

Individual students become animals performing every-day tasks in this hilarious movement game.

Statue Wax Museum

In this whole-group activity, students become statues in a wax museum. They try to move without being caught by the visitor.

Environment Build

One-at-a-time, students create a silent picture of a specific place.

Two Sticks

In a circle, each student takes an ordinary prop and turns it into something else

What Are You Doing?

In a circle, each student is asked to pantomime an activity, but then must pantomime something else entirely.

Bubble Gum

Based on a classic skit, every student in class must interact with a piece of gum on the floor in an inventive way.

Death by Household Object

In a circle, students take turns improvising ridiculous death scenes involving ordinary household objects.

Two Headed Monster

Two students must answer questions from the audience as if they are one person in this hilarious improv game.

It’s Not My Fault

In pairs, students create improvised scenes in which they constantly blame each other.

Interpreter

In pairs, one student acts out an ordinary task while the other (who has no idea what she’s doing) narrates.

Opposites

In pairs, students perform improvised scenes in which they are constantly contradicting themselves.

Story Line-Up

Students tell parts of a story out-of-order by standing in specific places in relation to one another.

Typewriter

Students immediately act out a story that a writer is typing on her computer.

Slide Show

Students spontaneously act out family vacations, disasters, etc. while one student narrates.

Open Scenes

Students learn how emotion can change a scene by reciting two lines several times under different circumstances.

Get Out Of That Chair

Students learn about character motivations by using different tactics to get another student to leave his/her chair.

Have You Seen Charlie?

In pairs, one person describes a strange character and the other person must become that character.

Hitchhiker

In groups of four, students take turns playing a hitchhiker who has an immediate effect on the other passengers in a car.

Talking Objects

Students take on the characteristics of inanimate objects who argue about their importance in this hilarious improv game.

Principals Office

Two students must make up an unrehearsed lie together in front of the principal in this off-beat improv game.

The Annoying Game

Students take turns annoying an innocent character on a bench in this imaginative activity.

The Restaurant Game

Actors play customers and waiters who have secret agendas in this fun theatre game.

Playing Cards Status

In pairs, students are given secret identities and must behave toward one another according to their status.