Toyshop
This is one of the most popular Perform games and is ideal for developing concentration and confidence.
Ask your child to sit down and close their eyes. Tell them think of their favourite toy and imagine what it would be like to become that toy. Ask them to think about the colour, shape, material and feel of the toy and to imagine how it would move, sound and speak.
Tell your child that you are you are the Toyshop owner and that they are one of the toys in your toyshop. When you are in the room, they must keep still and quiet, but when you go outside of the room they can come alive, move, speak, and act like the toy has come alive. However, when you come back in they must stand as still as a statue.
The real trick for playing this game is to go for it and really enjoying playing the character. Give the toyshop owner a funny accent and mannerisms. Talk to yourself, dust the toy, move it about in different poses. Then go out of the room.
When you come back you must act very surprised that the toys are not where you left them. Make a big thing of putting them back into place, re-posing them etc.
Then go out of the room and repeat the process.
