Subscribe to my mailing list and receive a free copy of Aesop’s Fables on Stage If you would like to sign up to our mailing list and receive a free copy of Aesop’s Fables on Stage, click here. This Goldilocks and the Three Bears workshop is from “Drama Workshops for Young Children” by Julie Meighan. This book contains 10 drama workshops for young children. These fun-to-use and easy-to-follow workshops are designed for children between the ages of 3 and 7. The workshops are based on children’s stories. Each story is introduced at the beginning of each workshop through a movement Read More …
Category: Action Poems
The Magical Music Shop -A Movement Story
The Magical Music Shop -A Movement Story Resources needed: Clear space, triangle and pictures of different types of instruments (optional). Introduction: Tell the children they are going to participate in a movement story about a magical music shop. Show them pictures of different type of instruments. Discuss different kind of musical instrument families. Brass instruments are made of brass or another metal and they make sound when air is blown into them. The instruments in the brass family include trumpet, trombone, tuba, French horn, cornet, and bugle. Percussion instruments usually make sound when they are hit or shaken. The instruments Read More …
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Movement Activities for Children that focus on Coordination (Drama Games)
Subscribe to my mailing list and receive a free copy of Aesop’s Fables on Stage If you would like to sign up to our mailing list and receive a free copy of Aesop’s Fables on Stage, click here. The following movement activities promote the following types of coordination skills: Gross motor coordination: This type of coordination is the movement of arms, legs and body that allows children to walk, run, jump, throw kick and twist. Fine motor coordination: This type of coordination allows children toperform tasks that require precision. Activities that require children to manipulate small objects will improve their fine Read More …
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Emotions -a drama workshop for children based on emotions
Drama is a great way of expressing emotions. Explain to the children everything we do and every thought we have comes with a feeling. Sometimes the feelings feel good and sometimes not so good. Some feelings are strong, some are weak. When we feel something we can choos want to do about that feeling. Sometimes we try to ignore it and it goes away and sometime it takes over and we cannot think of anything else. When you get a feeling, first work out what it is and come up with an idea about what to do about it. Read More …
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The Buddha and the Beggar Man – a children’s play about gratitude and destiny
Characters: Two storytellers, Beggar Man, Mouse, Man, Woman, Daughter, Wizard, Giant Turtle and Buddha. Storyteller 1: Once upon a time there was a homeless man who begged every day for food.(People pass by and give him food.)Beggar Man: I’m so lucky that kind people give me food.(Beggar Man falls asleep and mouse creeps up and steals his food. The Beggar Man wakes up suddenly and sees the mouse.)Beggar Man: Mouse, why are you stealing my food. I’m just a poor beggar man.Mouse: I’m doing you a favour because no matter how much you beg or how generous people are, you Read More …
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Body/self awareness Activities
Game: Colour Jump Instructions: Ask the children to look at their clothing. Ask them to notice the colors they are wearing. Tell the children that when you name a color they are wearing, they will jump up and then sit back down. Be sure the children have enough space to move without hurting other children. If your space is limited, they can all stand and then hop when their color is called. Call out one color. Help children by drawing attention to the colors they are wearing. Example: “Mara, is that red on your shirt?” Game: Alphabet Jump Instructions: Tell Read More …
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Action Songs and Poetry for preschoolers.
Dingle Dangle Scarecrow When all the cows were sleeping and the sun had gone to bed Up jumped the scarecrow and this is what he said “I’m a dingle dangle scarecrow with a flippy floppy hat, I can shake my hands like this and shake my feet like that. When all the hens were rousting and the moon behind a cloud, Up jumped the scarecrow and shouted very loud “I’m a dingle dangle scarecrow with a flippy floppy hat, I can shake my hands like this and shake my feet like that. Do Your Ears Hang Low? Do your Read More …
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Rhyming Tales – The Lion and the Mouse
Rhyming TalesThe following poem can be used in a variety of ways: The practionner could read it at story time or the children could act out or mime the different parts for fun or in front of an audience. They could also be recited. Each child could learn four lines each and they could recite it as a choral piece. These stories help children with their vocal expression and give them an understanding of rhythm. The Lion and the Mouse There was a lion who lived in a cave.He was extremely big and terribly brave.The lion was not frightened of Read More …
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Goldilocks and the Three Bears Movement Story for children.
All the children sit in a circle. When the children hear the following words in the story they must jump up and do the following actions. The words are in bold to assist the teacher. Goldilocks: Skip around the space. Bear/Bears: Walk slowly and growl. Bowl/Bowls: Clasp fingers together and stick out arms to make a round shape. Porridge: Wiggle body up and down. Chair/s: Squat down and stick out arms. Bed/s: Lies straight on the floor. First: Holds up one finger. Second: Holds up two fingers. Third: Holds up three fingers. Once upon a time, there was a Read More …
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More Fun Movement Games for Children
Game: Call and Response Age: 4 years + Minimum number of participants: 2 Resources: Clear space Other Benefits: Creativity, focus, listening. Instructions: Everyone sits in a circle. The teacher starts the activity by making a simple clapping rhythm. The rest of the circle repeats the rhythm. The child who is sitting next to the teacher takes a turn at making a simple clapping rhythm and the rest of the group copies it. When the group has got comfortable with the call and response technique the game can become a little more complicated. Each child must add on to the clapping Read More …
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More Action Poetry for Children
Five Currant Buns in a Baker’s Shop Directions: Five children can be the current buns and six children can be the customers. One child can be the baker. Everyone else can say the rhyme below The baker lines up his currant buns in the shop. When each customer comes in to choose a currant bun, the children say the customer’s name. Then the baker selects a currantbun for the customer to buy. Five currant buns in the baker’s shop ,Big and round, with a cherry on the top. Along came ……………….. with a penny one day, Bought a currant bun and Read More …
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Four Fun Movement Games for Children.
. Game: Doors and Windows Age: 5 years+ Minimum number of participants: 10 Resources needed: Clear space Other benefits: Spatial awareness, group work Instructions: The children form a circle while standing and holding their hands. The group spreads out enough so that everyone’s arms are straight in the circle. This should form large spaces between the circle members. These large spaces represent the windows and doors. Then one child is chosen to be the runner. The runner starts running, and weaving in and out between the windows and doors. The children in the circle randomly drop their arms down trying Read More …
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The Hare and the Tortoise – A play for children
Characters: Three storytellers, hare, tortoise, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, bears and an eagle. (Stage Directions: The three storytellers are on the left hand side of the stage and the tortoise is moving around the stage in slow motion.) Storyteller 1: Once upon a time there lived a tortoise. Storyteller: 2: He liked to go for a leisurely stroll by the edge of a big forest. Storyteller 3: One day a hare came bounding up towards him. (Hare comes running on the stage.) Hare: (He pushes the tortoise out of the way and nearly knocks him over.) Out of my way you Read More …
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Action Poems for Young Children
Action Poems When Goldilocks went to the house of the bears When Goldilocks went to the house of the bears (Walk on the spot). Oh, what did her blue eyes see? (Point to their eyes) A bowl that was huge and a bowl that was small And a bowl that was tiny and that was all (Make increasingly smaller shapes with arms for each bowl). And she counted them – one, two, three (Use finger to point as if counting each bowl). When Goldilocks went to the house of the bears (Walk on the spot). Oh, what did her blue Read More …
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Action Poems for Young Children – Movement
Action Poems When Goldilocks went to the house of the bears When Goldilocks went to the house of the bears (Walk on the spot). Oh, what did her blue eyes see? (Point to their eyes) A bowl that was huge and a bowl that was small And a bowl that was tiny and that was all (Make increasingly smaller shapes with arms for each bowl). And she counted them – one, two, three (Use finger to point as if counting each bowl). When Goldilocks went to the house of the bears (Walk on the spot). Oh, what did her blue Read More …
