WARM UPS
The importance of warm up activities should never be overlooked. It’s difficult for anyone regardless of their age to arrive and suddenly launch into drama. Try some of these activities to relax the children and to help them to focus.
STRETCHING
Shake out – right hand 8x’s, left hand, right foot, left foot. Repeat 4x’s, 2x’s, 1x.
Make yourself as small / big as you can (repeat)
Shoulders up to ears, drop
Hook hands behind you, stretch hands up
Right hand to right foot, left hand in the air (repeat with opposite)
Roll down to touch toes, one vertebrae at a time
Take deep breath, on exhale sink into the stretch
Sit cross legged
Stretch right, left arm arch over head (repeat with opposite)
Stretch front
Fold in right leg, reach to left foot. (repeat with opposite)
Shake it out
Lip buzz and sirens
HEAD AND FACE MASSAGE
Pairs. One lying on their back on the floor, the other sitting at their head. The person sitting gives the other player a head and face massage. Starting from the forehead, then the top of the head and hairline. Run fingers around the bones of the eyes, down the bridge of the nose, down the sides of the nose to the cheek bones, massage the soft part of the cheeks, down the sides of the jaw and down along the neck. Gently replace the player's head on the floor. Players swap roles and the other player is given the massage.
GROUP MASSAGE
Everyone standing in a circle very close together and facing inwards. Everyone turn to their right and take a step into the circle to the left so that people are very close. Now everyone give the person in front a shoulder massage and then gentle chopping and patting their back.
TONGUE TWISTER
Unique
I know
Toy boat
Rubber baby buggy bumpers
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. (A peck of pickled peppers Peter
Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?)
She sells sea shells by the sea shore
Smelly shoes and socks shock sisters.
Red leather, yellow leather.
Momma made me mash my M n M's.
What noise annoys an oyster? A noisy noise annoys an oyster.
Mae-me-mi-mo-moo
Selfish shellfish
Knapsack straps
Specific Pacific
Men munch much mush
Black bugs blood
Rush the washing, Russell
Good blood, bad blood
Fruit float
Fresh fried fish
Pre-shrunk shirts
Purple Paper People, Purple Paper People, Purple Paper People
Red Bulb Blue Bulb -Red Bulb Blue Bulb- Red Bulb Blue Bulb
Freshly-fried fat flying fish
Bubble bobble, bubble bobble, bubble bobble
Greek grapes
