Kitchen Utensil Game!
This game is very silly, but lots of fun. I’m sure your family will be giggling when you start playing. You need to play with someone else or a group of people. When it is your turn you need to think of one kitchen utensil eg. Cheese grater, ice cream scoop, kettle, toaster….etc . You need to pretend to BE that utensil and mime how you move to the other people playing. They need to guess which utensil you are.
Have a go at playing these drama games to warm up:
Chewing Gum
Warm up your facial muscles by chewing an imaginary ball of gum. As you continue to chew, let it get bigger and bigger. Move your jaw from side to side as you move the ball of gum around in your mouth.
Tongue Twisters
Michael Rosen’s Chocolate Cake is full of playful phrases and interesting words. Tongue twisters are a great way to warm up for drama and are also very effective when encouraging children to feel more confident with language.
· The big beautiful blue balloon burst.
· Cooks cook cupcakes quickly.
· Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought better butter to make the bitter butter better.
· I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won’t wish the wish you wish to wish.
Food Charades!
Play this game with people at home. One of you has to mime eating a type of food. You can’t speak – only use actions. The other players have to guess what food you are ‘eating’. Here are some ideas to get you started:
spaghetti…..ice cream…..burger….sandwich…..candyfloss…..soup…..fish and chips ……banana …….apple……..chicken drumsticks
Animal Puppetry
For this home learning task you will need a soft animal cuddly toy or glove puppet.
(If you don’t have one you could try making one using an old sock – instructions here)
Watch the Polka Theatre’s puppetry workshop. Have a go at getting your soft toy or puppet to move just like his.
Can you perform it to someone at home, or film yourself doing it? What sort of voices will you do? Can you perform with more than one puppet?
Visit the Polka Theatre website for more fun activities.
Half Moon Theatre is offering families access to some of its content online. You can watch a selection of recent much-loved productions for young people and children available for free.
Just visit https://www.halfmoon.org.uk/halfmoonathome/live/
The Unicorn Theatre are thrilled to announce their digitally created theatre experience, Anansi the Spider Re-spun for ages 3 – 8, streamed in partnership with The Guardian. There are three episodes, which they are streaming for free on their YouTube channel and on The Guardian’s website. One episode will be released every Saturday at 11am from 30 May, with each available on demand for the following three weeks.
Episode 1: Anansi the Spider Re-spun: Brother Anansi and Brother Snake
Streamed: Sat 30 May, 11am
Available until Sat 20 Jun 8pm
Episode 2: Anansi the Spider Re-spun: Anansi and the Two Dinners
Streamed: Sat 6 Jun, 11am
Available until Sat 27 Jun 8pm
Episode 3: Anansi the Spider Re-spun: Anansi and the Pot of Wisdom
Streamed: Sat 13 Jun, 11am
Available until Sat 4 Jul 8pm
Inspired by their 2019 five-star hit show, Anansi the Spider, about the infamous mischief-maker and master spinner of yarns, they’ve adapted these classic West African and Caribbean tales for Unicorn Online.
This fun online performance, featuring music, song and humour is an exciting new adventure!
Join their e-list to get regular updates.
Free Activities and Workshops
Along with each episode, they are also releasing a free creative activity pack for families to use. And, on 30th May they’re launching their free online workshop where viewers can learn a song from Anansi, send in a recording and feature in their online celebratory Anansi song party video which they’ll release in July.
Little Angel Puppet Theatre has lots of fun home learning resources. Click on the following link to find out more:
The theatre normally puts on the most incredible puppet shows! Whilst the theatre is closed they have been streaming performances, including:
…and many more! Click on the links above to explore.
After you have watched the shows you could compose your own music or sound effects for one of them, or your own puppet show. They have used guitar, whistling and harmonica. What instruments do you have at home? Even if you don’t have any, you can whistle and use your voice. You can make percussion instruments too. Here are some ideas of how to make them from one of our previous posts: