{"id":8242,"date":"2026-03-02T06:56:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T06:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inspirationforkids.org\/educators\/?p=8242"},"modified":"2026-04-22T19:26:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:26:29","slug":"the-mirror-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inspirationforkids.org\/educators\/the-mirror-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mirror Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Mirror Game \u2013 Building Focus, Empathy &amp; Presence with Teacher Emil<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In this lesson, I teach one of my favourite foundational drama exercises for children \u2014 The Mirror Game.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Mirror Game develops:<\/p>\n<p>\u2714 Focus and concentration<br \/>\n\u2714 Body awareness and control<br \/>\n\u2714 Observation skills<br \/>\n\u2714 Emotional sensitivity<br \/>\n\u2714 Leadership and followership<br \/>\n\u2714 Trust between partners<\/p>\n<p>Children quickly realise that this game is not about being silly or fast. It is about control, awareness, and connection.<\/p>\n<p>When leading, they learn responsibility.<br \/>\nWhen following, they learn humility and attention.<br \/>\nWhen switching roles, they learn balance.<\/p>\n<p>I also share how I gradually increase the challenge \u2014 slowing movements down, removing the obvious leader, or encouraging silent communication \u2014 so children begin to feel rather than just copy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aBVxzOtpESY?si=Sr-S5FjjcNtQwO3j\" width=\"760\" height=\"515\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/17EceqXIYF0MkvPS72ztj0L_yT3E1eQ_b\/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=114120383623534738681&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download the Mirror Game Activity Sheet<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mirror Game \u2013 Building Focus, Empathy &amp; Presence with Teacher Emil In this lesson, I teach one of my favourite foundational drama exercises for children \u2014 The Mirror Game. The Mirror Game develops: \u2714 Focus and concentration \u2714 Body awareness and control \u2714 Observation skills \u2714 Emotional sensitivity \u2714 Leadership and followership \u2714 Trust [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drama-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspirationforkids.org\/educators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspirationforkids.org\/educators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspirationforkids.org\/educators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspirationforkids.org\/educators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspirationforkids.org\/educators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inspirationforkids.org\/educators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspirationforkids.org\/educators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspirationforkids.org\/educators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspirationforkids.org\/educators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}