The Game That Gets Everyone Into The Act!
Includes Real Movie Clapboard!
Be sure to have your video camera ready to make the funniest videos ever of your child's acting debut!
Bring family and friends together for entertaining and comical fun with Lights, Camera, Action! Family Edition--a hip and hilarious new game. Develop confidence and skills for life through theater based activities. Using the authentic Hollywood movie clapboard included, one person directs, while 2 "actors" act out one of the 100 included short skits and try to make the other burst out laughing. Hilarity ensues when each player applies an outrageous "TWIST Card" (e.g. you are a sumo wrestler or you are a ballerina) to his or her act. Whoever laughs, hesitates, muffs lines or falls out of character will get "CUT" by the director, enabling the opponent to advance his or her game piece.
To win the game, players should try to make their opponents laugh or otherwise distract them from their acting performance. Look for funny props to use and don't forget to really ham it up! Be silly, zany, dramatic . . . the more creative your are, the more fun you'll have! The player who gets the least amount of cuts reaches the center start and wins the game!
Lights, Camera, Action! is great for family game night. Use your own video camera to record great family acting moments you'll want to preserve forever!
Benefits of Theater Activities for Children:
The Lights, Camera Action! Family Edition offers the wonderful benefits of theater based activities. Theater activities can have a powerful impact on children's physical, emotional, social and cognitive development. Confidence gained in drama applies to school, career, and life. The benefits are numerous:
Self Confidence and Self Esteem: Performing for an audience teaches children to trust their ideas and abilities while overcoming shyness and fostering self worth. Through drama, self discovery and expression help instill confidence and boost self esteem.
Reading Skills and Literacy Learning: As children practice their roles, they reflect on the words while evaluating and revising how they interact with them while interpreting and communicating their meaning. Reading and acting out scripts increase sight-word vocabulary, reading comprehension and literature appreciation. Children blossom when they become more confident readers.
Communication/Oral Skills: Theater activities enhance oral expression including verbal and nonverbal expression of ideas, voice projection, articulation of words, fluency with language, and persuasive speech.
Presentation Skills: The exercise of acting out scripts enhances reading fluency such as volume, stress, rate, tempo, and intonation while improving presentation skills.
Imagination: Creating and acting out performances requires thinking of new ideas. Never underestimate the power of imagination. As Einstein said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Concentration: Theater activities help increase attention span as well as observation skills.
Listening Comprehension: By interacting with others, drama helps develop good listening habits.
Cooperation/Collaboration: The cooperative effort needed to create a puppet show or theatrical play increases a child's ability to work with others, sharing ideas and solving problems together.
Problem Solving: Theater activities encourage imagination and improvisation. Improvisation fosters quick-thinking leading to greater adaptability in Life. Many teachers believe that improvisation is one of the very best ways for children to express themselves.
Motivation: Theater activities bring play, humor, fun and laughter into learning - improving motivation.
Self Expression and Relaxation: Drama and theater allow children to express emotions. Play acting activities release stress by releasing mental, physical and emotional tension.
Self Discipline: The process of moving ideas to actions and performances teaches the value of practice and perseverance. Drama and creative movement improve self-control.
Trust: The social interaction and risk taking in theater develop trust in self and others.
Contents: 1 Authentic Movie Clapboard
1 Game Board
8 Game Pieces
2 Script Books with 100 Original Skits
100 Outrageous Twist Cards
100 Script Pick Cards
Ages: 8+
Players: 3-16
Box Dimensions 12.75" L x 10.5" W x 2.125" H
WARNING: This product contains game pieces small enough to be swallowed and can thereby be dangerous for children under the age of three. PLEASE KEEP OUT OF REACH OF YOUNGER CHILDREN!
