What you'll need:
Lots of All-Stars
Writing utencils (pens, paper, NO INVISIBLE INK!)
Snacks
Hat
Dictionary
1. Gather as a group. Grab some paper, writing instruments, and snacks.
2. Pick the number of songs you want on the album. Randomly pick out that same
number of words from the dictionary. Write those words on slips of paper. In the hat they go.
3. Pick a random All-Star. He/she picks a word out of the hat. DO NOT LET ANYONE KNOW WHAT
WORD YOU PICKED!
4. You (the All-Star who picked the word out of the hat) must "compose"
two lines of "poetry/song," using the word that you picked out of the hat
as the first word of your "composition." Don't let anyone see what you are writing.
5. Now it's time for the next All-Star. The first All-Star tells the
next All-Star what the very last word was of his composition. The
Next All-Star must then compose his/her own two lines of "poetry/song"
that start with the last word of the previous All-Star's composition.
Again, don't let anyone see what you wrote.
6. This goes on until all All-Stars have written something. Once
every All-Star has written something, it will be decided by the group
if they want to keep on going. You can go for full group rounds, or
sudden death (in which you keep composing--maybe under a time limit
for each All-Star--until one All-Star fails to compose two lines in
his/her turn).
7. Every All-Star must keep his/her compositions to themselves. No
Other All-Star can see them in this "composition" stage.
8. The All-Star who picked the word out of the hat all the way back in
step 3 is the "singer." It is the singer's resposibility to now collect
all of the compositions from the rest of the All-Stars and form them into a "Song." This will be done by joining the consecutive "compositions" together from end to end. Yes, it will probably be very long. This joining will go something like this:
Composition A: "I have two cars in my dad's garage / The Oragne one
smells real bad"
Composition B: "Bad Boy Billy Kicks way too much ass / Except when he is feeling the effects of eating grass"
The "Final Output/Joined Composition:"
"I have two cars in my dad's garage / The Oragne one
smells real Bad Boy Billy Kicks way too much ass / Except when
he is feeling the effects of eating grass"
(Note that "bad," the common word between the two compositions, is
not repeated. This is the way it's supposed to be.)
(Yes, I know that there is the possibility that all of the "songs" could
end up as terrible as this example.)
9. The "singer" will then take his song, and sing/speak it while the
rest of the All-Stars play a nice ditty behind him/her. There will be only ONE take. The singer must sing the whole song, and the band must play for the duration.
Yes, this is forced recreation.
10. Repeat until every All-Star has been a singer, or until you feel as if this activity will make you vomit.
This could probably be a two day project, with the "composition" phase
taking up the most time.
