Good things come in small packages, and with them, we’ve got a great collection of tiny prompts to get your students thinking about the little things. If you want even more requests, you can find 50 more in the giveaway below.

Here are four mini-exercises for which you can use small pointers:

• Mime exercise: Have students mime picking up a small item, interacting with it, and handing it to the student next to them.
• Playwriting exercise: Write a one-page scene, for two people, that must include a tiny element somewhere in the plot.
• Enhancement Exercise 1: You open a treasure chest to find a multitude of tiny objects.
• Enhancement Exercise 2: In a science lab, your shrink ray turns and makes a small giant object.

Be sure to check us out completely prompt collection for even more inspiration!

1. A birthday candle
2. A penny
3. A mosquito
4. A germ
5. An atom
6. A needle
7. A crumb
8. A humming bird
9. A mouse
10. An eyelash
11. A pebble
12. A grain of sand
13. A paper clip
14. An earring
15. A drop of rain
16. A safety pin
17. A hairpin/bobby pin
18. A watch equipment
19. A blade of grass
20. A single sequin
21. A flea
22. A second
23. One millimeter
24. One 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
33. A precious stone
34. A robin’s egg
35. A flower petal
36. A hangman
37. A strand of hair
38. A cocoon
39. A drop of ink
40. A pencil shave
41. A marble
42. A hanger for a board
43. A piece 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 speck of dust

Click here for 50 more tiny requests.

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

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