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!
- Making/eating breakfast
- Making/eating breakfast in bed
- Making/eating lunch
- Making/eating dinner
- Feeding a newborn
- Feeding a toddler
- Eating with a fork and knife
- Eating with chopsticks
- Eating with your hands
- Baking a pie
- Participating in a pie-eating contest
- Cooking on a barbecue
- Cooking over a fire
- Trying to cook without a recipe
- Eating something spicy
- Eating something extremely sour
- Eating something that hurts your teeth
- Ate too much and feeling stuffed
- Waiting impatiently for a meal at a restaurant
- Twirling spaghetti noodle
- Tossing a pizza
- Decorating cupcakes
- Serving a formal tea
- Overfilling a plate at a buffet
- Having a picnic
- Having a food fight
- Eating while doing something else and spilling on yourself
- Trying to eat something that is precariously balanced on your lap
- Snacking while watching a movie
- Getting an ice cream headache
- Participating in a toddler cake smash photoshoot
- Running a lemonade stand
- Running a bake sale
- Chewing gum and blowing bubbles
- Nervously chopping vegetables with an extremely sharp knife
- Appearing on a cooking competition show
- Going grocery shopping
- Going grocery shopping without your list and trying to remember what you need
- Eating a meal and noticing something gross in it (like a hair)
- Crying while chopping onions
- Working as a singing waiter in a restaurant
- Trying to get a food stain (ketchup, chocolate, etc.) out of a favourite piece of clothing
- Giving someone a box of chocolates or candy for Valentine’s Day
- Eating something while blindfolded and guessing what it is
- Having an allergic reaction to a food you ate
- Ordering a meal using an app
- Making a holiday meal with someone you’re in an argument with
- At a restaurant, discovering everything on the menu is extremely expensive
- Eating ice cream while crying over a breakup
- Eating popcorn at the movies
Bonus: Check out our character development game, What’s For Breakfast?
Click here for fifty more food-related prompts.Kerry Hishon is a director, actor, writer and stage combatant from London, Ontario, Canada. She blogs at www.kerryhishon.com.
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