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Object Work

The exercises in this category are helpful for object work, i.e. improvising/miming (physically non-existent) objects in the environment in which the improvised scene takes place. This is important as most improv is performed without any physical props.

Improv exercises in this category

10 Fingers

3 some

Accepting Circle

Action Syllables

Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves

Alien Tiger Cow

Alliterations

Alphabet Circle

Alphabet Letters

Assassin

Association Jump

Bandaid Tag

Barney

Barnyard

Big Booty

Big Fish Small Fish

Bippety Bop(1)

Bippety Bop(2)

Blind Freeze

Blind Line Up

Bobsledding Bodies

Bumpity Bump

Bunny

Cat and Mouse

Catch`em

Chivalrous Couples

Circle Sitting

Clap Snap Association

Clap Snap Stamp

Concentration Circle

Create Obstacles

Cross Circle

Cross the Circle

Dissociation

Duck Duck Goose

Ducks and Cows

Eights

Elephant

Emotional Mirror

Energy 1-10

Evolution

Exaggeration Circle

Family Portraits

Firing Squad

Flock Dance

Follow your Nose

Free Association

Free Association Circle

Freeze Tag

Fruit Basket

Fuzzy Ducky

Greetings

Group Order

Ha Soh Kah

Hand Slap

Honey Walk

Hot Spot

House, Creature, Flood

Human Knot

Jump

Killer Bunny

King Lizard

Kitty in the Corner

Ksss

Last Letter

Letter Number Name

Malapropism

Man Overboard

Massage

Mexican Name Wave

Millipede

Mirror

Mirror in Circle

No Doubles 1-10

Non Sequitor

Objects

One Duck

One Two Three Four

Pass Ball

Pass Clap

Pass Yes

Patterns

Play Tag

Popcorn

Presents

Primal Screams

Rash

Receiver Right Clap

Remote Control

Rumors

Samurai

Seven Up

Shootout

SloMo Samurai

SloMo Tag

Smart Fellas

Sound Circle

Squeezer

Stretching

Supernova

Synchro Clap

The Scream

Three Noses

Turning Circle

Virus

Walking by Numbers

What are you doing

Who stole the Cookies

Whoosh

Word Ball

Yes Lets

You

 

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