Premise
The premise of the game is simple. A police officer is interviewing a suspect about an unknown crime(let the kids make it up). The suspect is very silly though and can only say one word. This game results in hilarious conversations between the officer and suspect.
Rules
Police officer can only ask classroom appropriate questions. The suspect can only answer using the silly word. Encourage your suspect to use nonverbal communication and vocal inflection to communicate the answers while only saying the one word.
Twist: have a competition between your two actors, the first one to giggle or break character looses.
Students should try to ask silly questions that make the answer seem even more outrageous.
Steps
Before the game write out several silly words on index cards (see silly words below).
For each round choose two students to perform. Try to pick a quieter student for the suspect. This makes it easier since they already know what they are going to say. It also helps students build confidence in front of an audience and sets the student up for success. Pick a confident or gifted student as your police person. This will push those students to develop their creativity and improvisation skills.
Suggested words
You can really use any silly word you want for this game,but here are a few suggestions.
Apple
Wackadoodle
Lalalamoooo
Pizza
Mommy
Baby doll
Zipitiy
Puppy dog
Blah blah blah
Guitar
Candy
Penguins
Hocus locus
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