An ACTING EXERCISE:

Choose an every day activity, a way of being attacked and something that you can turn into to save yourself from attack.

For example, eating a picnic is an activity. Fire ants can attack. But then I could transform into an anteater – with a taste for spicy food.

Then act out the scene.

A LIMBO EXERCISE

Limbo, yes, sure. BUT ... when the limbo gets too hard – as it always does – choose something to turn into and then act out either going under or stepping over the limbo stick in a different, fully imagined way. Both a PHYSICAL activity and ACTING.

STORYTELLING EXERCISE

Make your bottle a story telling bottle by putting a long piece of string inside – with the tip of the string on the outside (so you don’t lose it). The kids sit in a circle. The first person, pulls on the string a bit while starting a story. The bottle is passed to the next kid who pulls some string, adds to the story and then passes the bottle. The bottle continues to be passed as the story unfolds until the person who pulls the last bit of string has to end the story. So the kids don’t know how much string is in the bottle, you can put the bottle in a sock.

The Best Idea for a Party Favor:

A journal. These don’t have to be pricey or fancy. They can be little notebooks of any sort. But they encourage keeping notes on your life and examining the world – which is a strange and mysterious place.