Sometimes you just need a little prompt to serve your purpose, but other times you need a bunch of big, HUGE, GIANT suggestions! To get your students thinking big, we have a gigantic list of 50 gigantic (colossal, enormous) prompts below, with another 50 huge (immense, mammoth) prompts on offer at the bottom of this article.

Here are five exercises you could use giant pointers for:

• Exercise for the giant mime team: Have students work together to mime lifting a huge object, all at the same time. What if someone starts to wobble and lose their grip?
• Painting scene: Divide students into groups of four. Have them create a frozen picture where one or more students are giant and the rest are miniature.
• Playwriting exercise: Write a scene where a detective has to track down a criminal mastermind. The criminal mastermind steals huge objects using a chemical compound that makes objects small.
• Stage Challenge: Using the premise from the Playwriting Exercise above, answer the following questions:
  • How would you stage the miniature object?
  • How would you stage the same item in a giant form?
  • How would you stage the transformation of the article from giant to tiny (or vice versa)?
• Improvement exercise: Improvise a scene where the characters get lost in a giant location.

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

1. A stadium
2. A villa
3. A palace
4. A castle
5. A skyscraper
6. A dessert
7. Grand Canyon
8. Niagara falls
9. The Great Barrier Reef
10. Dubai Mall
11. Maelstrom vortex
12. Trans Canada Highway
13. St. Peter’s Basilica
14. Mount Fuji
15. The Great Pyramid of Giza
16. A monument
17. A cruise ship
18. A freight train
19. A monster truck
20. A transport truck
21. Ocean
22. A tornado
23. An iceberg
24. A blue whale
25. An elephant
26. A rhinoceros
27. A hippopotamus
28. An ostrich
29. A giant Flemish rabbit
30. A jellyfish with a lion’s mane
31. An anaconda
32. A leatherback turtle
33. A Mastiff dog
34. A great dane dog
35. Clifford, the Big Red Dog
36. A dinosaur
37. A redwood tree
38. A coast redwood tree
39. An important decision
40. A lottery jackpot
41. Birth of a child
42. Buying your first home
43. Graduation day
44. First day of school
45. The first day of your first job
46. A wedding
47. A fairy tale giant
48. A galaxy
49. A comet
50. Planet Jupiter

Click here for 50 more massive 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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