The Gruffalo drama workshop from Julie Meighan
Category: Drama
The Three Billy Goat’s Gruff – A Classroom Drama
The Three Billy Goats Gruff Read the story. See link above. Introduction: All the children sit in a circle. The teacher asks them what a troll looks like? Get the children to express their thoughts and ideas freely. Role on the wall: Give an outline of an image and…
The Magic Porridge Pot – 10 Minute Play for Children
The Magic Porridge Pot Characters: Two storytellers, Daisy, Maisy, Mother, four villagers, old woman and the porridge pot. Storyteller 1: Once upon a time, there was a little girl called Daisy who lived with her mother in a very small house. Storyteller 2: They were very poor and they didn’t…
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…
The Magic Forest!
This is an excellent activity to do with a variety of age groups. For younger children you can read out the story and get them to use their imaginations to fill in the gaps. For older children they could fill in the gaps in groups. At the end they could…
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…
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…

