Improvise If You Please
Improvisation is a fun way to “act out” a feeling, situation or event. It really tests your imagination and spontaneous creativity more than it does your skill for acting.
You can while away a pleasant afternoon by taking turns improvising zany situations thought up by members of a group. The thing to remember is to “act fast” ... doing the first thing that comes to mind without thinking about it too much.
One way to get started is for each person to write an idea on a slip of paper and place it in a hat. Group members can then take turns drawing from the hat and improvising the idea on the paper for the others to guess. A still simpler way is for members of the group to take turns throwing out a topic and calling on someone else to improvise. Try improvising some of these topics to get started.
Improvisations
Show how you can be ...
... water in an overflowing bathtub;
... a mouse caught in a mousetrap;
... a melting ice cream cone;
... a candidate for mayor who has just learned that someone else won the election;
... a butterfly just out of a cocoon;
... a hungry baby with no bottle;
... an angry football team captain;
... a kid showing a bad report card to her parents;
... a fish out of water;
... a parent whose child’s ball has just crashed through a neighbor’s picture window;
... a mother bird trying to teach her baby to fly;
... a cat who ate dog food by mistake;
... an exploding firecracker;
... a runaway grocery basket;
... a flat tire on a speeding taxicab;
... a bank robber who finds out he has stolen play money;
... a cowboy walking in ballet shoes instead of boots;
... a hungry, wet and lost puppy;
... an ice skater on thin ice.