Hi girls, The weeks are going by so quickly! I hope you enjoyed last week's theme of Under the Sea. This week we are going to look at a different theme- Art, Music and Drama. I want you to have loads of fun this week! Art: Choose a video to watch, and draw! I have attached links below for other things that you might like to draw. Have a go! How to Draw Buildings! https://www.artforkidshub.com/how-to-draw/buildings/ How to Create a Father's Day Card! https://www.artforkidshub.com/holiday-art-projects/fathers-day/ How to Draw Summer Pictures! https://www.artforkidshub.com/seasons/summer/ Drama: I have included a few fun activities and games below! You can do these with family members at home! Fun Drama Games and Activities! 1. Ribbon of Sound: Sit in a circle. One person starts a sound. The next person picks it up and it travels around the circle so it becomes a ribbon of sound. Each person should pick it up and pass it on as quickly as possible. Transform it into another sound with the person next to the one who started the first sound. 2. Co-operative Stand Up: Choose partners. Sit back to back on the floor, legs straight out in front. Interlock arms. Try to stand up together as a unit by pushing against each others’ backs. 3. Led by the Nose- Drama Game:Children imagine that strings are attached to various parts of their bodies. They move about the room led by that part. Example: right thumb, nose, knees. Eyelashes etc. 4. Strike a Pose: 1. Form a circle. Each person chooses one other person in the circle to secretly watch. 2. Everyone closes their eyes and strikes a pose. 3. On “GO” — everyone opens their eyes and begins to copy the person they chose to watch. (In posture, pose, stance, etc.) Watch as the whole team morphs into the same pose! 5. Bean Bag ‘Voice Projection’:This exercise demonstrate to children how important it is to project their voices. Place three bean bags or balls in front of a row of children. One about 5 feet away from them – the second about 10 feet away, the third about 15 feet away (this can obviously be changed to suit how many are playing). 1. Ask each child to look directly at the first bean bag, say their name and the name of their favourite animal. 2. Instruct them to say the exact same things to the second bean bag. 3. Would they speak with the same volume? Of course not – the “person” is further away. 4. When asked to address the third bean bag, they obviously should be projecting their voices as loud as they can. 5. After the entire group has addressed the bean bags, let them know they were really acting in a play just then – reaching the first three rows, the middle rows, and the back rows of the theater. 6. Hold a Fashion Show! Props: a raised platform/ stage and music. #1 IDEA First session: Putting on a fashion show can be fun for all players, especially if everyone gets to choose the role they will play. In the planning stages, have participants decide on a theme for the show (such as holiday outfits); plan music and which roles children will play. Both male and female models would be nice; you’ll also need designers, emcees, a journalist or two, and photographer. Help the players plan the set up; where youth will enter and exit—as well as where the audience will sit. Make a list of special clothing to wear during the show and any other props you may need. If you have the “#3-WACKY” version below—you’ll also have to make the outfits… Second session: Give members time to set up the show and get organized. Get the audience seated a let the show begin! IDEA #2: Rehearse a show in which EVERYTHING GOES WRONG! (On purpose). It’s fun but not easy to do. Example: The emcee trips over the microphone cord, or models wear things that don’t fit—and don’t go together. Think of all the silliness you can! 7. Read an Easy Story That Can Be Dramatized:Choose children or adults to participate and have them recreate the story. They can make up the lines or you can reread or tell it as they act it out. Choose parts and practice acting it out. Perform your story. 8. Changing Body Game: You may not at first see this as a drama game–but it is! (Pretending you are something/someone else using art!)
9. ‘Sensory’ Drama Play Activities: Relaxation Relax and explore your five senses by PRETENDING to: · TOUCH • A hot stove • Icicles • Sharp tacks • Velvet · TASTE • A sour lemon • Your favourite sweets • Spinach · HEAR… • A gentle wind • Underwater sounds · A whistle · SEE • A car coming far away and towards you • A giant • An ant • A big black spider · SMELL… • Freshly baked bread • A skunk • Perfume • Onions 10. Mystery Bag: Blindfold children and have them use their senses to identify objects.
11. Imaging Taste: This activity is about making other people’s mouths water.
12. I Can't Stand_____! Have each player in turn describe a food that they cannot stand to eat. Encourage as much detail as possible so that the other group members are disgusted by the food, too. 13. Bottle of What! Before the meeting, gather several empty plastic bottles with caps. Fill each bottle with a different material-such as dried peas, pebbles, marbles, sand, and birdseed. Put the caps back on and cover the bottles with paper so the materials inside are hidden. Ask group members to listen to the sound each bottle makes and guess what is inside it. Drama Game Activities: • Carry on a “conversation” with another person using only that person’s name. See the range of meaning you can communicate through voice inflection, facial expression and gestures. · Trust Walk/Blindfold Walk. · Mirroring. In a pair or group-shake hands quickly, slowly, gently, angrily, sadly, tenderly.Make your hands take on different characteristics: nervous, greedy, flabby, magic, fierce, gentle, strong, frightened, etc • Puppets/Puppet show: Make or purchase puppets; write, produce, practice, perform.
• Two partners share one pillow. Experiment with different ways of giving and taking the pillow. Make it something very valuable and precious. Make it something vile and distasteful. Make it very heavy. Make it light. Make it prickly. Pretend that it’s a ticking bomb, an injured cat, a hot plate. Music: Have a listen to the songs, and learn the dance moves that go with them. I have attached links below. Remember to smile and have fun! Trolls: Can't Stop The Feeling | GoNoodlehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhfkYzUwYFk Peanut Butter in a Cup:Peanut Butter in a Cup - Moose Tube | GoNoodlehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPCGfa44bF0 Boom Chicka Boom - Moose Tube | GoNoodlehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b6axyuaKcY HAKA! New Zealand perform The Haka after winning the Women's Rugby World Cup.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzg4rJJNX30 Amhrán na gCupán - Cup Song in Irish - When I'm gone as Gaeilge.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz63M3v11nE Mindfulness Meditation for Kids | BREATHING EXERCISE | Guided Meditation for Childrenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk_qU7l-fcU I hope you enjoy all the activities and tasks for this week! Send me an email if you have any questions. My email is on the top of this page.
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