This activity needs 4 people, boys and/or girls. Start Positions: One person is making beans by pretending to mix a bowl. One person is off to the side waiting for their cue. One person is the pretend director watching the skit. One person is also to the side waiting for their cue. Skit: The first person off to the side …
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Improvisation activities bring a healthy and creative dynamic to any camp program. The activities below and the links to the left will get you started down a road that is limited only by the depths of your own imagination. Be spontaneous and enjoy!
Doctor Doctor
Characters (in order of appearance): Director, Mother, Daughter, Doctor, Mortician Director: OK, OK everyone, places! Take one! Mother: (pretends to sweep the kitchen) Daughter: (comes in the room looking sick) Mom, I don’t feel good. Mother: (puts hand to daughter’s head as if checking her temperature) Let’s see. Daughter: (falls to the ground and dies, badly) Mother: Oh, NO! I …
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2-3 people start off this scene. One person starts them off with a scene. At any time that person can say “freeze!” he will then go to the people not in the scene and ask them genre styles: theater, games, movies,books etc. The people in the scene then have to continue in that style of scene. Hilarious and SO much …
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Have the first two participants improv any scene they like. Tell them to exagerate gestures and movements to make the game more fun. When the people watching feel inclined, they can tap one of the actors. When they tap the actor, that actor must freeze in the position they’re in, then leave the stage. The tapper takes his place and …
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No special requirements, Just add fun Or if using for therapeutic reasons, add tone. Opening up and getting to know each other Balancing life After everyone has settled into their camp bunks, one person begins a story. When they choose, they say “THE BOILER BURST” The next camper adds to that story, a couple phrases or lines then says “THE …
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Ice breaker, warm up, non competitive. This is an improv warm up game. ROUND ONE: “ZIP ZAP ZOP” Form a circle. One person points to someone in the group and says, “ZIP”. That person who receives it, points to a different person in the circle and says, “ZAP”. The third person then points to another member of the circle and …
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