I am going to be doing an acting and audition workshop for children . Does anyon

Question:I'm taking Theater Arts in school right now, and we do MANY 'improv' games, which are also great icebreakers, and help to raise acting confidence so that (of course) the participants can be more comfortable as actors, and the adjudicators or directors can begin to understand what type of role each person should be given in a play.
here are a few games we're after doing...

1) Fruit Basket
- have everybody sit in chairs arranged in a large circle, and have one person STAND in the middle. in other words, there should be one more person then there are chairs.
- label the students as different fruits, for example, going around the circle with a pattern such as "pear, apple, banana" until every student is officially a type of fruit.
- when the person in the middle calls out the name of one of the fruits, everybody who is that type of fruit (for example, if he/she calls out PEAR! then all the 'pears' get up) gets up and switches seats. the person in the middle must try to steal a seat.

- whoever is left in the middle has to repeat the last step. many funny things happen during this game and it's great for all ages. you can also mix it up a bit by adding different types of fruit, or by including the 'Fruit Basket' rule.. if the student in the middle is ahving trouble finding a seat, then they are allowed to shout FRUIT BASKET! and EVERYBODY has to get up and switch chairs.

2) Word-at-a-time story

- works best with 4-6 students at a time.
- line the students up in a line, and tell the first student to begin a story, using only ONE word.
- each student has to continue the story, using only one word at a time, until it is finished. this game can be made harder by telling the students a theme or event which the story must be based upon.

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hope everything goes well, best of luck!

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I'm taking Theater Arts in school right now, and we do MANY 'improv' games, which are also great icebreakers, and help to raise acting confidence so that (of course) the participants can be more comfortable as actors, and the adjudicators or directors can begin to understand what type of role each person should be given in a play.
here are a few games we're after doing...

1) Fruit Basket
- have everybody sit in chairs arranged in a large circle, and have one person STAND in the middle. in other words, there should be one more person then there are chairs.
- label the students as different fruits, for example, going around the circle with a pattern such as "pear, apple, banana" until every student is officially a type of fruit.
- when the person in the middle calls out the name of one of the fruits, everybody who is that type of fruit (for example, if he/she calls out PEAR! then all the 'pears' get up) gets up and switches seats. the person in the middle must try to steal a seat.

- whoever is left in the middle has to repeat the last step. many funny things happen during this game and it's great for all ages. you can also mix it up a bit by adding different types of fruit, or by including the 'Fruit Basket' rule.. if the student in the middle is ahving trouble finding a seat, then they are allowed to shout FRUIT BASKET! and EVERYBODY has to get up and switch chairs.

2) Word-at-a-time story

- works best with 4-6 students at a time.
- line the students up in a line, and tell the first student to begin a story, using only ONE word.
- each student has to continue the story, using only one word at a time, until it is finished. this game can be made harder by telling the students a theme or event which the story must be based upon.

this site might help as well!
http://www.geocities.com/pocolocoplayers...

hope everything goes well, best of luck!

I don't know if this will help or not, but when I was 10 my English teacher had a local theater actor come in a talk with us about acting and we did some activities. I just remember he did some kind of copy game. When he would guide the class in some movements and we had to match his movements while he was making them. I only remember because I matched his movements the best, I don't remember why he said it was important. Maybe you do?

When i was younger we went to local theatre to not only see the play showing but for lesson in it
they showed us how to use stage makeup to get "bruises" and to look older
they taught us how to stage fight like slapping and kicking hope this kinda helped to form ideas in your mind

The accepted book (it is used in acting programs and colleges) for improv and acting games is Viola Spolin's Improvisation for the Theatre. There is also a classroom version.