Lesson Plans

Drama Game: Two Storytelling Games

A pair of games to get groups started with storytelling
GB_ART/ADOBESTOCK

Age: 9 to adult

Players: Whole group

Time: 10 – 20 minutes

Skills: Storytelling, Speaking and Listening

Materials: A ball of string

Tell a story, weave a web.

Sitting in a circle, one person holds a ball of string and tells the first sentence of a story. She keeps hold of the end of the string and rolls or throws the ball of string to someone sitting on the other side of the circle. He adds a sentence to the story. He keeps hold of his part of the string and throws the ball on to a third player – and so on – and gradually a web is built up.

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