Theater activities

Every drama teacher should have a few easy class activities up their sleeve. The drama jar is a great tool to encourage students to use their imagination and think on their feet. Split your class into small groups and let each group randomly pick a scenario to act out from the drama jar! 😍🎬

A collection of fun drama games and activities for kids. Great for drama class or to warm up for your theater group. #DramaGames #DramaActivities #ActingTips #SchoolPlays

Starting a unit with an exciting activity, like this, engages children right away. Drama games for kids build interest in drama class.

Want to learn and practice differet types of drama? Here's a list of 9 with an explanation of how to do each one. Great for drama class.

Ready to try readers theater, but not sure where to start? This blog post breaks it all down for you. Find out how to use readers' theater for first grade, kindergarten and even 2nd grade. Learn how to create your own readers theater scripts and where to find scripts online. Your students will have so much fun performing readers theater. It is perfect for guided reading, small group instruction, and parent performances. Best of all, it's a great way to build reading fluency in young readers.

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I completely underestimated how much the girls would enjoy playing with shadow puppets. Whenever something so simple makes them so happy, I can’t help but smile!! And this was SUPER simple. Added bonus — the perfect entertainment for whenever a power outage occurs. Our little shadow puppet theater was made from an empty cardboard box […]

Are you looking for engaging and fun drama activities to keep your kindergarteners happily entertained? Look no further! In this article, we will explore a variety of drama activities specially tailored to the needs of kindergartners, including improvisation, role play, and activities for non-readers. Discover how you can use these activities to create a unique, meaningful drama experience for your students.

Movie Pretend Play Printables

This blog post describes fun ways to incorporate fluency practice into your elementary lesson plans and activities. Reader's theaters are perfect for taking your readers' fluency skills up a notch.

When I first started teaching, I didn’t quite know how to approach the drama section of our art curriculum. We would do a few skits, occasionally play a version of Bus Stop where one kid had to make another laugh, and call it a day. I wanted to breathe some life into our drama activities and make things fun again. Improv games were a perfect fit!

Here are some free PDF's of some of my favourite drama, theatre and improv games to play with different year levels.

Three Easy First-Day Theatre Games – Kerry Hishon

We opened our own classroom movie theatre as a fun way to explore our rhyming unit for English. Students loved presenting their own rhymes to the class in the theatre.

Step onto the stage of theatrical understanding with the “Theater Terminology” worksheet. This activity invites you to explore the fascinating world of drama by pairing essential theater terms with their corresponding definitions. As you fill in the blanks, you’ll unravel the meanings behind terms like “dialog,” “narrator,” “stage directions,” and more. Whether you’re a seasoned...

Drama games build confidence, let kids use their imagination and can serves as a foundation for theatre skills. Here are some of the most entertaining drama activities for you to try.

Create your own play! 1. Use Crayola® crayons, colored pencils, or markers to decorate the frame. 2. Cut out the frame, and ask an adult to help cut along the dotted lines inside the frame. (Don't cut the whole inside square out.) 3. Draw a picture in each box to show the scenes in your favorite play, story, or performance. 4. Cut out the strip, and slide it through the frame. 5. Tell the story as you pull the strip through the frame! Tip: Print several copies of the page, and…