Category:Creative Characters and Playful Performances

Discover techniques, props, scenery, costumes, movement, mask work, improvisation, and make-up; designing and developing characters, settings, and situations for one act or a whole play; learn about comic timing, working with and off of others, learning to be creative and quick on your feet; learn the performing elements of theater, such as vocal techniques, audition portfolios, dissecting script, and bringing the written word to life; examine a variety of scripts and discuss different ways to interpret and present the material; gain knowledge of theory, technical theater, and theater history as it relates to performers; designing costumes; learn basic sewing and design skills to create your own drama-inspired fashions; learn trendy needle-working, beading, making accessories, fashion drawing, stage make-up and hair styling.

These tools can be used with any topic, and may be done indoors or outdoors, each giving different results and utilizing different muscles to broaden the range of motor skills.


 * Cartooning
 * Origami
 * Dioramas
 * Papier-Mache
 * Masks
 * Drawing (regular pencil, charcoal, pastel, color)
 * Painting
 * Inking (Pens, Stamps, etc.)
 * Collage
 * Sculpture
 * Clay (modeling, sculpting, etc.)
 * Ceramics (painting, decorating, reusing)
 * Jewelry-Making, including making beads
 * Combining drawing, painting, collage, and other mediums
 * Making or coloring in coloring books
 * Photography
 * Photo editing
 * Exploratory Art (experimenting with paint, clay, collage, different sizes of paint brushes, crayons, markers, different types of glue and paper, different sculpting methods [pinching, coil, potter's wheel, and slab construction], different paint textures)
 * Metalwork (aluminum and copper rubbings, welding, wire-working, using metal snips for cutting, etc.)
 * Shadow puppets
 * Pressed flower book mark
 * Make kaleidescope
 * Singing fun songs and playing musical games
 * Play instruments, such as fiddles, flutes, rhythm instruments (drum, cymbal, tambourine, etc.), and bell choirs
 * Explore with chemistry, physics, astronomy (such as the Farmer's Almanac), geology, and biology
 * Stained Glass
 * Dot-to-dot
 * Crossword puzzle
 * Word Search
 * Vocabulary
 * Needlepoint and Embroidery
 * Recipes (can be from different countries and/or cultures)
 * Marble or bead "pixel" pictures
 * Make or paint sun catchers (CAUTION: do not leave sun catchers in a window where they could cause a fire [as a magnifying glass can do])
 * Felt Board
 * Magnets
 * Finger Plays
 * Action poems
 * Nature Walks
 * Cereal Box Covers (find interesting ones, or make your own)
 * Pictures (name/label parts of birds, boats, flowers, buildings, etc.)
 * Clothing (look at, wear, and/or design clothing to fit the subject)
 * Books (make and/or read books relating to the subject)