i need some good theatre games to play with the kids at my camp tomorrow?

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i'm going to be teaching a dance/singing camp to kids 8-14 tomorrow and i need good, simple, fun theatre games to play with them. any ideas? i'm looking for things like teambuilding/dancing/singing not nesesarily all three at once. ANYTHING is appriciated because i'm not specifically looking for one kind of game. THANKS!
it can't take terribly long time to play! maybe 5 minutes or so.
 
We played this cool game in drama called "park bench", where pretty much, you (the teacher) sits on a bench. Then, one person sits by you and does something to make you get off (like "dig" their nose, or make a move on you, or something like that). Then once you are off, the kid slides over, and lets another kid do the same. Repeat that until everyone has gone (or you can even do more rounds if you have time). It is a quick game but it is really fun to see what the kids come up with. It doesn't really help with teambuilding, but it is good practice for getting them used to acting on stage in a comfortable way.

Good luck, and have fun!
 
Do charades exept they have to act out a scene of a movie and the kids have to guess the movie
they can talk though too
 
the FARMER IN THE DELL has always been a favorite for kids of all ages (what's a dell anyway?)
 
You could do a song circle, where one person starts singing a short wordless musical phrase (something easy to sing, with a breath built in). Then the next person adds something that goes with that, either musical or rhythm, and each person in the circle adds something.

After everybody's singing, the first person does their phrase one more time, then stops (and indicates that by putting their hand over their mouth). The next person, one more time, hand over mouth, so on and so on until you get to the last person.

This works best in groups of under 20 or so.

You could do an improvised dance. Start the music, and one person goes in front of the group and starts a short dance phrase that they repeat over and over until everybody gets it. Someone else can come up and start something new. They can stay in one place, or travel a little bit.

And here's a very cacophonous, very active game called Enemy Defender. The main rule is: DON'T RUN.

Each person in the group individually and secretly selects someone gives them the name Defender. Then each person secretly selects another person and gives them the name Enemy. Their task is to make sure that their Defender is always in between them and their Enemy. Say go!

Instant madness ensues, and people will start running. Keep reminding them of the Rule. Do it a couple of times (with new Enemy and new Defender).
 
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