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Year 9 Mime Warmup Games

The document outlines various mime warm-up games and activities for Year 9 students, focusing on the use of facial expressions and body movement. It includes exercises like 'Chain mime' and 'The Magic Box,' where students engage in miming actions and guessing games. Additional themes and examples for group mimes are provided to enhance creativity and participation.

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Year 9 Mime Warmup Games

The document outlines various mime warm-up games and activities for Year 9 students, focusing on the use of facial expressions and body movement. It includes exercises like 'Chain mime' and 'The Magic Box,' where students engage in miming actions and guessing games. Additional themes and examples for group mimes are provided to enhance creativity and participation.

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Year 9 Mime warm-up games

Talk about mime, facial expressions and body movement

Silent ball, then clap twice, then turn 360 degrees

Let’s start using mime with some simple activities. Remember, when miming, your actions can be
exaggerated but they still need to be believable.

Chain mime: Form 2 lines, about 2 meters apart, all the students facing the screen, the 2 students at
the back of each line, go to the teacher, get an instruction (action), run back to their own line, tap
student at the back of the line on the shoulder, student turns around, demonstrate action to this
student, this student then tap the next student on the shoulder and demonstrates the action, which
row of student’s finished first and demonstrated the action correctly?

Action examples:

• Riding a horse

• Skiing

• Washing dishes

• Eating hot food

• Counting money

• Telling someone you love them

• Eating spaghetti

• Singing

• Playing tug of war

• Washing your dog

• Ballet dancing

• Moon walk

• Playing basketball

• Singing opera

• Walking in the desert

• Playing tennis

• Making pancakes

• Opening a present that you do not like

Walk like a …..

• Toddler

• child in high heels

• child wearing heavy wellington boots

• child splashing in a puddles

• child stuck in mud

• child walking on stony beach


• child walking on hot sand

• someone walking on fire

• someone walking wearily

• an old frail person.

Video examples youtube: Marcel Marceau

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEsfpRrfXf4

Mime exercise: The Bank Robbery

 Cashiers arrive bored and yawning they open up their desks and talk to each other

 People come in and walk up to the cashiers and put in and withdraw money

 Suddenly two robbers come in wearing masks

 They make everyone lie on the floor and they hold up the bank clerks and make them hand
over the money

 Little old lady trips up robber and he falls and spills the money

 Security guard then holds up robbers and takes off their masks.

Other ideas/themes for group mimes: Camping, The Circus, Christmas morning, The big mistake.

Activity 1: The Magic Box

Everyone sits comfortably on the floor. Imagine there is a magic box in the middle. Using your
imagination, describe how big it is, what colour it is etc. It can be different shapes and colours for
each person because it is a magic box. First person goes into the middle and mime
(pretend) opening the box and taking out an object. Then mime holding the object and using it. It
might be a hair brush, a football, a pen, an axe, a chocolate bar, a guitar, a flower, a computer, a toy
car or anything you want. The others must guess what it is. Then, mime putting it back in the box
and closing it. The person who guesses correctly will have the next turn at taking an object out of the
box.

Activity 2: I can do anything

Call a student, whisper the action to the student, student demonstrates it to the rest of the class.
Can they guess what is happening?
• Attempt to open a stuck door.

• Opening a birthday present that they’ve always wanted.

• A monkey eating a banana.

• Imitate the actions involved in everyday activities: mowing the lawn, making a bed, sweeping the
floor, digging the garden, shopping etc.

• Putting on a pair of shoes: ballerina-fireman-footballer, then acting out the character.

• Making a telephone call.

• Going out into the snow or spending a day at the beach (contrast a hot day with a cold day.)

• Having a picnic (maybe cows or bees arrive unexpectedly).

• Flying a kite (tangled in a tree or lost).

• Having a nightmare.

• Turning into robots.

• Become an elephant in a circus. (Show how enormous and heavy you are by walking around, raise
you trunk).

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