Costumes and makeup
- Children’s makeup for stage: A handy-dandy tutorial for applying makeup for stage performances.
- Homemade kid’s costumes: Halloween costumes from Martha Stewart, some awesome examples with instructions that may spark ideas for your team.
- Clever DIY costume inspirations: collected on Pinterest, beards, wigs, jelly fish, hot air balloons … Oh My!
- Creative costume ideas: more cute and creative ideas for costumes.
- Costumes from recycled boxes: costumes made from recycled cardboard boxes, Rubik’s cube, dinosaur, and more.
- Mask-template – A simple pattern to make a mask out of cardboard or paper.
- Costume Links
Drama and performing
- Rising Stars Improv and Acting Tips
- Team Challenge Presentation Tips workshop – Primary Author: Peggy Middendorf – Questions to ask Teams to help them conceptualize their solution. A great checklist of questions about Scripts, Sets, Costumes and Props for TMs to use in talking to their Team without interference. Teams can also be given the sheet to use in their planning.
- Drama and Theater Resource Guide: “Comprehensive Learning Guide for Students and Teachers”
- Drama Notebook: “World’s largest collection of drama activities for kids”
- Drama warm up games for kids: Get children moving, thinking, and acting.
- 5 Ways to Help Your Kids Project Their Voice on Stage
- Drama Game: Alien, Tiger, Cow: Get students comfortable around each other.
- Drama Games for Kids: Fun and easy drama games ideal for young actors.
- Costume and Makeup Tricks: DIY costume and makeup ideas.
Story Telling
- Story Writing Tips for Kids: Character and conflict, plot and dialogue, setting and scenes, write and revise.
- Make a Story Roll: A happy activity that gets children excited about creating stories.
- Write a Story from an Ant’s Perspective: A good chance to help kids explore other perspectives.
- Wham! Bam! Kapow! Cartoon Story Telling: Teach children how to work in all the essential parts of a story.
- Story Bags: A fun activity to generate fun stories.
- Seven Steps to the Perfect Story: A guide to story telling success.
- How to Tell a Story: A collection of TED talks which explore various aspects of this topic
- B M E story chart – A template to use with Teams to begin story writing.
- Story prewriting questions – Template to use to help Teams plan their presentation.
- Character Development
- Clear-Storytelling-
- Good Better WOW
- Group Story Activities
- Questioning.
- Questions for the team to think about when planning their presentation solution
- Script Writing-Page to Stage