Pass the Ball:

Standing in a circle, begin to pass an imaginary ball to the left. After awhile say, now imagine the ball is very sticky.. every four or five people, give the ball a new characteristic (hot, freezing, smelly, heavy, light as a feather, prickly). At a certain point invite participants to change the quality of the ball when it comes to them.
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Magic Clay:

Standing in a circle the leader begins by holding an imaginary ball of clay. He/She then molds the clay into a usable object and then displays using it, once the nature of the object is obvious, the leader makes the object back into a ball of clay and passes it onto the left. Each person, in turn molds the magic clay into an object. This is an excellent game for learning to use body and imagination without words.
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Transformations:

Ask participants to mill around the room filling up all the space in the room.
- Freeze: After a few moments ask them to “freeze” (Stop suddenly and holed the pose until you tell them to “walk”) Practice “freeze” and “walk” a few times.
- Become a __: Now ask them to freeze and become (an image). After each image instruct them to “walk” again and then freeze for the next image. Start with easy images like: become a tree; tall grass in the breeze, a large rock, a sunflower on a bright day, then move onto more challenging imagery that evokes movement and emotion: a hungry puppy, an ice cream cone melting in the sun, a daisy in an ice storm, etc.
- Mood walk: Ask participants to mill around the room and then call out different images to walk to: for example, walk as if you’re late for school, as if you have just been rejected by a friend, you just got the lead in the school play, you got straight A’s on your report card, you flunked a test, etc. Be sure to end on a positive image.
When doing this exercise, be sure to start with easy images and move on as they loosen up. If you go straight for something too emotionally challenging you’ll lose group members from the start.
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Go, Stop, Fall:

This exercise is great for building whole group awareness and a sense of team. There are three commands:
- Go: walk around the room
- Stop: stop and freeze in position
- Fall: slowly fall to the floor and begin rolling around
After modeling the three moves, ask the group to “Walk” then “Stop” then “Walk” the “Fall”, etc. Play around with these three moves. Take your time with this so they don’t get too exhausted.
Part 2: Ask a participant to take a turn as director and call out the commands. Let two or three participants take a turn as director.
Part 3: Now ask group participants to randomly call out commands. Warn them not to go too fast (they probably will anyway and you’ll have to stop and ask them to notice what’s happening).
Part 4: Ask the group to indicate the commands non-verbally. IE. Someone in the group just starts walking and everyone follows; someone else stops and everyone follows, etc.
you can stop at anytime in this exercise to reflect on what’s happening. For example: “What happens when too many people shout out commands too close to each other?” “How do you effectively let the group know what to do without talking?”
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“This is A ___”:

Have an object and repeat this sequence between yourself and the person beside you:

“This is an object”
“a what”
“an object”
“a what”
“an object”
“Oh yeah an object!”

Continue around the circle with the object. Once around one time continue with that object and start a second object in the opposite direction.
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“Diddle ee da”:

Teach this phrase: “diddle ee dah diddle ee dah diddle ee diddle ee diddle ee dah”

Start a stomp around the circle. Get them to repeat: “diddle dee dah diddle dee dah diddle dee diddle dee diddle dee dah”. Then go around the circle with each person saying one part of the phrase. If they mess up or pause you have to start over. The goal is to make it around the circle.

Example:
Person 1: diddle dee
Person 2: dah
Person 3: diddle dee
Person 4: dah
Person 5: diddle dee
Person 6: diddle dee
Person 7: diddle dee
Person 8: dah
etc.
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Group walk and stop:

Have the participants start walking around the room. Tell them that when you clap your hands they must freeze and when you clap again they can start walking again. Do this a few times and then tell them that you aren’t going to clap anymore. They have to feel when the rest of the group is stopping and all stop at once. Make sure no-one is trying to lead. This really gets people in tune with each other and is quite magical if it works well.