The following large group exercises continue using teamwork. Remind your students of what makes an interesting group picture--body positions, gestures and facial expression. Be sure that when you divide the class into groups that there are new groups each time there is a new activity. Frozen Pictures In advance, make up a list of children’s stories. Write each on an index card and keep them in that 3X5 index card box mentioned in Blog 12—so they can be used over and over (see below). Next, divide your class into new groups of 4-6, depending on the size of the class. Give each group a different card and allow them 5 minutes to decide on 3 frozen pictures that tell the whole story. (You may need to side coach—telling each group to be quiet so no on else in the other groups can hear what they are doing.) Every student is to participate in at least 2 of the three pictures. They can be people, chairs, trees, or what have you. Then as each group ‘performs,’ the rest of the class has to figure out the story they are portraying. Then, give each group a new card and they then have to tell the story in 2 frozen pictures. Again, allow 5 minutes to work and then each group ‘performs’. Now to add more difficulty, give each group another card, but this time you have selected Nursery Rhymes (which of course you have written on cards in advance). Everyone in the group is to be involved but they can only do one frozen picture. Again, give them 5 minutes to create their pictures and then ‘perform’. Children’s Stories -3 Blind Mice -Beauty & The Beast -The Tortoise & the Hare -Anything from Dr. Seuss -Emperor’s New Clothes -Pinocchio -Goldilocks -Cinderella -Snow White -The Three Little Pigs -Red Riding Hood -Sleeping Beauty Nursery Rhymes -Hickory Dickery Dock -Humpty Dumpty -Jack and Jill -Little Bo Peep -Little Miss Muffet -London Bridge is Falling Down -Ring-A-Round the Rosie -There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe -Three Blind Mice -Three Little Pigs Portraits One player is chosen as a host, and 4-10 players, depending on your class size, are selected to act as photo subjects. The host chooses a subject written on the 3 X 5 card and the group is given up to a minute (or more if you think they need it) to figure out what they will do. You might mention that there can be several types of portraits -- the one that hangs over the mantle, the one with 1 flaw or the one with many flaws. The host ‘clicks’ to view the picture, the group freezes in their portrait and the host then narrates what the portrait is about. Examples: -Family reunion -Birthday party -Vacation (summer or winter) -Wedding -Funeral -Graduation (high school or college) | 
