Games

Bang

A warmup for concentration. All players position themselves in a circle. In circle will now be counted upwards, player 1 says "1", playe...

Bippity Bippity Bop

In this — at times slightly macabre — warm-up game, players stand in a circle with one person in the middle. The player in the middle wal...

Blind Lead

These are different pair exercises in which one player closes his eyes and is led through the room in different ways. The aim is to fully...

Blind Stalker

Synonyms Screamers, haunted house, vampyre game Introduction This warm-up builds trust amongst workshop participants and helps break t...

Blinking place change

One (A) is in the middle of a large circle formed by all other players. Now the players are looking for eye contact with each other in a ...

Block of ice

This is a warm-up practice for the beginning of a rehearsal. The players stand quite stiff and immobile like in a block of ice frozen. H...

Bunny Bunny

A rhythmical warm-up game in a circle, the more you take part, the more fun. The lower limit is five players. The players are in a circl...

Circle of claps - Clapping circles

Clapping circles describe various warm-up games and rhythmic exercises where the participants stand in a circle and a signal - mostly a c...

Circle Up

During this warm-up exercise, the arms are stretched diagonally upwards and the legs, which are stretched out a little bit off the ground...

Clap Focus

Synonyms Snap Focus Introduction This warm up is to get people listening, responding fast and reacting without thinking. Everyone gets...

Counting together

The players are standing in a close circle with their eyes closed or all of them are looking at the ground. Now the group counts up to 21...

Cross Circle

Synonyms Name Game, Shriner’s Warm-up Introduction This warm up will help us all get moving, listening and learn a few names. Let’s fo...

Digits

Synonyms Shared counting, countdown, synergy Introduction This exercise is designed to get us all in synch. Get into a tight circle. ...

Duck, duck, goose

Duck, duck, goose or duck, duck, gray duck is a traditional children's game often first learned in pre-school or kindergarten then later ...

Endless snake

The more players, the better: The first player offers his right or left hand. A player comes along and takes this hand and offers his or ...

Four Corners

Here is another good ice-breaker for the start of the school year or as a funny way to better introduce people with each other. Four Corn...

Free Association

Introduction This warm-up will help us get into the moment for improvisation, and help us feel easier about being silly. Description T...

Genetically modified mouse

The players stand together with the game leader in a circle. This places an invisible mouse on the ground, which now runs under the feet ...

Gordian knot

The players form a close circle. They all close their eyes and then stretch their arms forward. Now everyone tries to grab a different ha...

Group Stop

This is listening warm-up. Everyone start milling about the room. Everyone quietly mills about the room. One person will elect to freeze...

House - residents - flood

This warm-up game is only suitable for a slightly larger group: 13 persons and more. It is also called: House creature flood. Groups of ...

Jonathan

A warm-up game to get to know the players' names and for quick reaction. The players stand in a circle . Player A is "Jonathan". - “Jo...

Jumpers

Everyone into a circle for a silly warm-up to get the blood flowing. Players randomly and unexpectedly jump up in to the air. At some ti...

Knights, Horses and Cavaliers

The participants move around the playing field and wait for the words "knights", "horses" or "cavaliers" to be called. If one of the wo...

Molecules

Everybody runs around the room until the game leader shouts a number. Instantly, everybody forms groups with the same number of players...

Names - Go and clap

Another warm-up and name game. The players form a circle and reach out one hand to the center of the circle. One player Z stands in the ...

Nightingale

An exercise to warm up, sing in and keep rhythm. Players are divided into two equal groups. Both groups sing the same song as a choir, on...

Prisoner walk

All players walk in a circle one after the other, like prisoners in a prison yard. They walk in a rhythmic step. If someone claps their h...

rhythm exercises

The rhythm exercises include exercises and warm-up games, which contain a rhythmic element. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves In this conc...

Round of the prisoners

All players walk one behind the other in a circle, like convicts in the prison yard. They go into a rhythmic cadence. If anyone in the ...

Simulclap

Introduction Get into a circle for listening and focus warm-up. Description One player starts off by clapping their hands (a singular ...

The monster

Player A stands in the middle of a big circle which all the other players form. A is the monster. He moves with forwards outstretched arm...

Traffic light

In this exercise the players can train perception, walking, encounter, status, posture and character. Game idea: The typical and well-kn...

Triangle

Each player initially takes two other players as reference persons without revealing his selection. It is now the task of all players to ...

Walking with speed levels

Players are distributed in the room. The task is to walk every which way through the room at increasing speeds. The leader announces "Ste...

Yes, let's

A great warmup for group collaboration and to practice saying yes especially for improv beginners. Everybody walks around the room. One ...