Sometimes you just need a tiny prompt to serve your purpose, but other times you need a whole bunch of big, huge, and GIANT prompts! To get your students thinking big, we’ve got a gigantic list of 50 gargantuan (colossal, enormous) prompts below, with an additional 50 huge (immense, mammoth) prompts in the giveaway at the bottom of this article.
Here are five exercises you could use giant prompts for:
- Giant Mime Team Exercise: Have students work together to mime picking up a giant item, all at the same time. What happens if someone starts to wobble and lose their grip?
- Tableau Scene: Divide students into groups of four. Have them create a frozen picture where one or more students are huge and the rest are miniature.
- Playwriting Exercise: Write a scene in which a detective must track down a criminal mastermind. The criminal mastermind is stealing huge items using a chemical compound that makes the items tiny.
- Staging Challenge: Using the premise in the Playwriting Exercise above, answer the following questions:
- How would you stage the miniature item?
- How would you stage the same item in huge form?
- How would you stage the transformation of the item from huge to tiny (or vice versa)?
- Improv Exercise: Improvise a scene in which characters are lost in a gigantic location.
Be sure to check out our full prompt collection for even more inspiration!
- A stadium
- A mansion
- A palace
- A castle
- A skyscraper
- A desert
- The Grand Canyon
- Niagara Falls
- The Great Barrier Reef
- The Dubai Mall
- The Maelstrom whirlpool
- The Trans-Canada Highway
- St. Peter’s Basilica
- Mount Fuji
- The Great Pyramid of Giza
- A monument
- A cruise ship
- A freight train
- A monster truck
- A transport truck
- The ocean
- A tornado
- An iceberg
- A blue whale
- An elephant
- A rhinoceros
- A hippopotamus
- An ostrich
- A Flemish giant rabbit
- A lion’s mane jellyfish
- An anaconda
- A leatherback turtle
- A Mastiff dog
- A Great Dane dog
- Clifford, the Big Red Dog
- A dinosaur
- A sequoia tree
- A coast redwood tree
- An important decision
- A lottery jackpot
- The birth of a child
- Buying your first home
- Graduation day
- The first day of school
- The first day of your first job
- A wedding
- A fairy-tale giant
- A galaxy
- A comet
- The planet Jupiter
Kerry Hishon is a director, actor, writer and stage combatant from London, Ontario, Canada. She blogs at www.kerryhishon.com.
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