Does anybody know any good drama games for children aged 4-8 years?

Question

I am planning a workshop for this age group and need games of a dramatic nature that encourage at least one of the following "4 C`s"

Confidence | Communication | Concentration | Coordination

Answer 1

there is this game in the 70s called tic tac toe, and it was played with bean bags, and you haved to stand about 5 to 6 feet from the tic tac toe, And you toss the bean bags to hit the X THEN YOU HIT THE O, and and you hit the x or o, the borard flips over and you keep on going to you win, Its still sold in stores , i beleive in K, mart or toys are us, that has everything to do with the 3 csss,

Answer 2

How about "There was a princess long ago..." thats a song and story which can be acted out with characters suitable for the younger and older. It will keep the interest of the younger ones as it may be a familiar story for them.The older ones can adapt it to make it more fun and "grown up" for them.

Answer 3

Fizzball

http://www.bigfishgames.com/downloads/fi...

Answer 4

Duck Duck Goose.

Answer 5

You could play schools, drs & nurses, Builders, Hair Dressers, cafes, mummies & daddies.

Roleplay covers all of your four Cs and more there is maths investigation, knowlege and understanding of the world creativity and physical development in all of those.

Answer 6

well i don't know is you know this game but when i took a drama class we played crocodile elephant palm-tree.

you put people in groups of three and then you yell out one of those things such as : if you say palm tree the middle Pearson in the group of three stands just normal and the other two people wave there arms and say swish swish

then if you say crocodile the middle person makes big crocodile mouth and the two on the sides make a circle with their arms so it looks like the crocodiles eyes and if you yell out elephant the person in the middle makes the elephants trunk and the others on the sides make wave their arms around so it looks like big ears

you can yell them out in any order and you can even turn it into a race like you could  yell out elephant and whatever team does it last there out . it is a very fun game and it has all of the 4 C's in it

Answer 7

Here's a game I played in gym class in elementary school that teaches communication, concentration and coordination.  It's called "Tied in Knots."  

Have everyone stand in a circle.  

Reach out with their left hand, and grasp someone's hand.  

Reach out with the right hand, and grasp someone else's hand.  Each player must be holding hands with two different people.

Challenge them to undo themselves into a circle.  



It can work with any size group, but small to medium size groups work best.  Once you get over 9 people, split them into two groups.

The groups must always have an even number so the leader may have to get involved too