Resource: Tons of Tiny Prompts

Good things come in small packages, and with that, we’ve got a big collection of tiny prompts to get your students thinking big about small things. If you’d like even more prompts, you can find 50 more in the giveaway below.

Here are four mini-exercises you can use tiny prompts for: 

• Mime Exercise: Have students mime picking up a tiny item, interacting with it, and passing it to the student next to them.
• Playwriting Exercise: Write a one-page, two-person scene that must include a tiny item somewhere in the plot.
• Improv Exercise 1: You open a treasure chest to find a multitude of one of the tiny items.
• Improv Exercise 2: In a science lab, your shrink ray backfires and makes a tiny item huge.

Be sure to check out our full prompt collection for even more inspiration!

1. A birthday candle
2. A penny
3. A mosquito
4. A germ
5. An atom
6. A pin
7. A crumb
8. A hummingbird
9. A mouse
10. An eyelash
11. A pebble
12. A grain of sand
13. A paperclip
14. An earring
15. A raindrop
16. A safety pin
17. A hairpin/bobby pin
18. A watch gear
19. A blade of grass
20. A single sequin
21. A flea
22. A second
23. A millimetre
24. A pixel
25. A grain of rice
26. A flower seed
27. A red pepper flake
28. A sugar cube
29. A pinch of salt
30. A gummy bear
31. A tadpole
32. A charm bracelet charm
33. A gemstone
34. A robin’s egg
35. A flower petal
36. A hangnail
37. A strand of hair
38. A cocoon
39. A drop of ink
40. A pencil shaving
41. A marble
42. A peg for a cribbage board
43. A speck of lint
44. A thimble
45. A Skittle or an M&M
46. A pencil eraser
47. A wild blueberry
48. A peanut
49. A sunflower seed
50. A dust mote

Kerry Hishon is a director, actor, writer and stage combatant from London, Ontario, Canada. She blogs at www.kerryhishon.com.