ACTING & STORYTELLING ACTIVITIES
All Ages
Help your young ones practice reading aloud. This lesson assumes you will be reading the same story multiple times, but feel free to adapt to any story any time! Reading a story multiple times will help children with comprehension and other skills.
Recommended Age: 4 and up
Let’s dance! Taking time to understand how our bodies move and react is important to developing characters, and a great way to start is to discover how your own body moves with this activity!
Recommended Age: 5 and up
When actors are playing characters onstage, they sometimes experience different emotions or feelings as those characters. In this activity, students will explore expressing emotions using their bodies, faces, and voices.
Recommended Age: 5 and up
One of the many exciting things that actors do to put on a play is use their imaginations. The following activity will help you use your imagination to transform objects into other exciting things!
Recommended Age: 5 and up
“Yes, Let’s” is an acting warmup that is great for getting the brain working. It can help reinforce positive attitudes, supporting the ideas of others, learning verbs, repetition, fostering creativity, and kinesthetic learning.
Recommended Age: 8 and up
One of the most popular acting activities is mirroring. Mirroring is a paired activity that allows people to work on leading and following through collaboration and focus. This activity helps actors strengthen their ability to focus, attention to detail, and listening to their scene partner.
Recommended Age: 8 and up
Write an original short play! This activity will give you tips and inspriation to develop your own story. When you’re finished, act the play out with your family, play all of the parts yourself, or with toys!
Recommended Age: 13 and up
What is a sonnet? Learn more about traditional Shakespeare sonnets and create your own in this activity.