You will need: Pieces of A4 card or paper (or US Letter) Write the names of various countries down, one on each card and have a list of well known or not so well known attractions that can be found in each country, e.g. The White House, Big Ben,...
Audience games
Standing Statues (for audience)
Adaptation of Musical Statues for an audience to take part or can be used where players have limited opportunity to move. Possibly for younger children. Play as musical statues (where children would normally move around and then freeze when the music stops. Anybody caught moving while the music has...
Sit down if you…
Simple game, get everybody to stand up at the start (put their hand up or some other way of signalling if they have disability). Then proceed to ask a series of questions. If any of the audience can say yes, they remain standing… Useful way to whittle down and...
Singing Contest
Divide the crowd into 3 or 4 groups. Give a topic or theme (such as songs mentioning a colour or a boy/girl’s name). Then have each group, in order around the room, sing the appropriate line that has the theme from the song. So if the chosen theme was...
Seated Four Court Rally
Adaption of a game originating from a query about games that could be used with audiences in theatres, etc. This might be useful as a way to loose a bit of early pent up energy excitement. Four court rally or “Nuke ‘em” (I didn’t invent the name, hence the...
Noisy Story Game
In advance: Write a story that incorporates as many sounds as possible. Play: For each sound used in the story arrange to have a group of children make that sound. As the story is read out each group makes his or her noise as the appropriate moment. Telling a...
Imagination
You’ll need a variety of different household items, etc Presenting one prop at time either have Each player use their imagination and act out as many alternative ideas for the prop they have been given, Pass the same object around players in a circle and see what each player...
Heads Down, Thumbs Up (for audiences)
Requires 3 children/players to be able to move around among the other children. So not suited for audiatoriums where seats are close to each other and little room for movement between those seated. 3 or 4 players are selected and stand to one side or one the stage. On...
Gibberish
Decide if you want a small group of individuals to come to the front or just one at a time. One person at time is given a non-sense word or sound and then tries to perform a song or nursery rhyme using only that word sound sound. Other players...