Feelings Drama Game
Instructions:
Write out 5-6 feelings on sheets of paper and place them around room (eg. scared, sad,
angry, joyful, peaceful, excited) –
Everyone steps on one of the sheets and act out that feeling for 30 sec.
(here is where you can establish some safety rules: i.e. only as loud so that the neighbours
would not be concerned; no harming anything or anyone; stay on the sheet)
-you might want to establish that in the first round people don’t have to face others to do
this; and in the 2nd round you face people but keep your eyes closed; 3rd round is facing
people and keeping eyes open but eye contact isn’t necessary; 4th round is making eye
contact
After 30 second expressing/acting out the emotion, move to next one…until all 5-6
emotions are felt.
Try another round.
To change it up consider:
One of the rounds is only 10 seconds or 5 seconds of each feeling – lots of hopping
around and quickly moving in and out of feelings and learning how easy that can be.
One of the rounds is to first move to favourite one, then move to least favourite one. Two
people can be on the same sheet.
Another next round could be to partner up (3 and 2) and go to feeling sheets together and
express the feeling together for 30 seconds.
Pull out 5-6 unique feelings (i.e empowered, wonder, relaxed, confused, resentful,
disappointed) and try those out.
Conclusion:
The game can be played for the fun and practice of getting more comfortable with
feelings and experiencing each other having these feelings together.
A final optional step is doing a round of sharing what each other’s experience was like –
what happened for each person during the activity.
Potential questions could be: what did you experience during that activity/game? What
did you feel at different times during that activity? What was something new that you
realized or learned by doing this activity?