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Count Shake
Mirroring Tongue Twisters
This is an easy way to warm up your bubble.
Everyone starts shaking their left hands, counting Everyone loves a tongue twister.
Works best with: pairs
down from eight. Once the countdown is Get warmed up by getting your bubble to
Pick a leader in the pair and completed, start again by shaking your right practise saying some of these slippery sentences:
face each other (2m apart). hand, then left foot, then right foot. Red lorry, yellow lorry. Unique New York.
Whatever the leader does, the Now, repeat the sequence but counting She sells seashells on the seashore. A proper
other child has to replicate. down from seven, then six, and so on. copper coffee pot. If Peter Piper picked a peck
It could be speaking, acting out a Once you’ve gone all the way down to of pickled peppers, how many pickled
character or subtle body language. one, complete the exercise by jumping peppers would Peter Piper pick?
After a few minutes, swap over. in the air and shouting,
This is an easy way to practise “Shake down!” Can you think
focus and observation. of more?
Quick-Change Artist
One child stands in front of everyone.
Encourage your bubble to try and memorise their
Fish Fingers
appearance. Everyone will close their eyes while
This Is My Friend they change something about their appearance.
One child stands at the front and
turns arounds. Another child is chosen
They might undo a button, remove a bracelet,
Split children into pairs, spaced at a safe to shout ‘fish fingers’ in the silliest
or tuck in their shirt. There are loads of
distance. Give them two minutes to find out as voice they can make. The child at the
possibilities. It is up to the rest of the bubble
much as possible about each other. You could front then has three guesses to see
to work out just what has changed. The first
give them hints like favourite foods, colours or if they can identify the child who
person to answer can be the next Quick-
hobbies. At the end, each child will tell the shouted out.
Change Artist.
class about their partner. This is a good
activity to encourage speaking
and listening skills.
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Socially Distanced Drama Games for KS1 Bubbles
Traffic Lights
Follow the Leader
Popcorn As children walk freely around at a safe distance,
shout red (freeze), amber (sit down on the floor), Children stand in a socially distanced line.
Everyone imagines they’re a piece or green (start walking again). After you have Everyone must follow and copy the leader of the
of corn in a frying pan. Squat on played with these rules for a while, switch the line (making sure to keep a social distance).
the floor as tight as you can get. colours so that green means freeze, red means Children can take turns to be the leader.
As the pan starts heating up, children sit down on the floor and amber means start Can they move in different ways?
gradually begin to ‘pop’ into popcorn. walking again. This will prompt your class Can they move at different speeds?
Do this by jumping out of the squat to concentrate and free their minds of
position and clapping. This is an anything other than the game.
energetic warm-up that is
easy to play.