Here at Theatrefolk, we love a good prompt collection! We’ve got outdoor prompts, job/occupation prompts, location prompts, and this collection is all about food! Don’t worry — all of these prompts are school-appropriate, and diet culture-free.
Use the following fifty prompts for improv scenes or playwriting exercises, and you’ll find fifty more prompts in the giveaway at the bottom of this page. Have fun!
1. Making/eating breakfast
2. Making/eating breakfast in bed
3. Making/eating lunch
4. Making/eating dinner
5. Feeding a newborn
6. Feeding a toddler
7. Eating with a fork and knife
8. Eating with chopsticks
9. Eating with your hands
10. Baking a pie
11. Participating in a pie-eating contest
12. Cooking on a barbecue
13. Cooking over a fire
14. Trying to cook without a recipe
15. Eating something spicy
16. Eating something extremely sour
17. Eating something that hurts your teeth
18. Ate too much and feeling stuffed
19. Waiting impatiently for a meal at a restaurant
20. Twirling spaghetti noodle
21. Tossing a pizza
22. Decorating cupcakes
23. Serving a formal tea
24. Overfilling a plate at a buffet
25. Having a picnic
26. Having a food fight
27. Eating while doing something else and spilling on yourself
28. Trying to eat something that is precariously balanced on your lap
29. Snacking while watching a movie
30. Getting an ice cream headache
31. Participating in a toddler cake smash photoshoot
32. Running a lemonade stand
33. Running a bake sale
34. Chewing gum and blowing bubbles
35. Nervously chopping vegetables with an extremely sharp knife
36. Appearing on a cooking competition show
37. Going grocery shopping
38. Going grocery shopping without your list and trying to remember what you need
39. Eating a meal and noticing something gross in it (like a hair)
40. Crying while chopping onions
41. Working as a singing waiter in a restaurant
42. Trying to get a food stain (ketchup, chocolate, etc.) out of a favourite piece of clothing
43. Giving someone a box of chocolates or candy for Valentine’s Day
44. Eating something while blindfolded and guessing what it is
45. Having an allergic reaction to a food you ate
46. Ordering a meal using an app
47. Making a holiday meal with someone you’re in an argument with
48. At a restaurant, discovering everything on the menu is extremely expensive
49. Eating ice cream while crying over a breakup
50. Eating popcorn at the movies
Bonus: Check out our character development game, What’s For Breakfast?
by Lindsay Price
Scene Spurs is a collection of photo-based writing prompts developed by playwright Lindsay Price. The set includes 35 different Spurs along with an instruction guide to integrate them into your drama classroom.
by Lindsay Price
35 more photo-based writing prompts developed by playwright Lindsay Price. Includes an instruction guide and tips to integrate them into a distance learning curriculum.