Drama Game: Wardrobe malfunction

Age: 8 upwards

Players: Whole group

Time: 10 minutes-plus

Skills: Concentration, icebreaker

Materials: Dressing up items

A daft dressing-up game where students discover what they have in common

This game is based on ‘anyone who.’ It can be played face-to-face or online via Zoom or another video-conferencing platform.

Face-to-face, put a pile of costume items in the middle of a circle. Online, each player needs a few items of clothing or costume nearby, such as a red nose, some hats, a scarf and anything else – the funnier the better. Before the game starts, everyone puts on one item.

The teacher calls out a category beginning with ‘anyone who…’, such as ‘anyone who likes chocolate.’ As soon as the category is called out, anyone who likes chocolate must take off their item of costume, grab one of the other items and put it on. The teacher decides who was the slowest to do the task. That person becomes the next caller. They must think of a new category, for example: ‘anyone who… owns a pet.’