Digging: Mime Basics

"Let's get to work in the garden. We're going to take a shovel. Now, remember a shovel. We're going to put our hand under this way and then other hand up this way, and we're ready to dig for our flowers. Actually, we're going to plant something larger. There's 2 actions to digging similar to eating an apple. I have to put the apple into my mouth. I have to put the shovel into the sand or dirt. I have to put the dirt on the shovel and then throw it away. Here we go. Dig into the dirt, onto the shovel, throw it away, and of course, we can't make it look just really simple. We have to add that facial expression. Make it tough. Now, after we've done that 3 times, everybody knows we're digging and we can pile away. I'm getting that tree in the ground."