Theatre Education: A Resource of Practical and Project-Based Warm-ups/Theatre Games for K-12

Martha Game

Where we learned it: Improvisation with Youth at ASU
Ages: 6th grade and up
Materials: None

Process:

1. Ask students to stand in a circle.
2. One person runs into the center of the circle and forms a statue with her body and says whatever she is (e.g., “I am a tree”).
3. The next person immediately runs out and forms her body into a statue to add to the picture and announces what she is (e.g., “I am a bench under the tree”).
4. Each person adds to the picture until the whole group is in the picture.
5. Start again.

Variations:

• Make it a moving or talking picture.