I need to plan a play for three students ages 5-6 years old? Can u help?

Question

I need to create a dramatic and fun play for three first grade students. DO u have anything in mind? A need a simple play that will be understood by children between 5-6 years old?

Answer 1

I vote for the 3 billy goats gruff

Answer 2

This is the perfect age to take a story and have them adapt it as their own.  Take a familiar story, such as the Three Little Pigs, and have them make up their own version.

Maybe it can be about 2 little monkeys who are being chased by the zoo keeper who keeps threatening to huff and puff and blow their banana tree down.  I don't know...give them an example of it like that and let them think of what to do :)

From past experiences, the best plays I have put on have been those the children have made.

Matt

Answer 3

You could do one of Aesop's Fables. They are not too long and most people know the stories so it would be fun. Here's a link that has most, if not all of them: http://www.aesopfables.com/

Answer 4

Three Little Pigs, Tortoise and the Hare, Goldilocks.

Answer 5

Do you know the story of The Three Wishes?  It only has three people in it.  A husband and wife are very poor.  The husband goes fishing and catches a mermaid.  She says she will give him three wishes if he lets her go.  So he lets her go and rushes home to his wife.  They decide to wish for something for supper and the husband immediately wishes for a sausage.  The sausage appears but the wife is angry.  She says that he has wasted a wish.  Why didn't he wish for a banquet?  All on gold plates!  They argue, called each other names and then the wife says,'I wish the sausage was stuck on your nose!'  It goes on.  Then the husband was angry.  In the end they have to use their last wish to get the sausage off his nose.  (Make up your own dialogue)

Answer 6

try exerts from huckleberry fin or turn a fairy tale into a play like Hansel and Gretel or little red riding hood.

Answer 7

why not try this simple story:

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly- 1 can be the old lady, 1 the narrator or singer, 1 puppeteer

try to look for the youtube video on sesame street with this nursery rhyme.

Answer 8

I've used a funny play many times that is easy to teach and has speaking lines. The story is the Enormous Turnip. A farmer plants and nurtures a turnip plant that grows to be huge. The farmer tries to pull the turnip, but it is too big. So he calls his wife. The wife pulls the farmer, the farmer pulls the turnip--too big. Then the child, dog, cat, etc. for as many people as you have. If you have only 3 kids, the farmer, wife, and child will do. The point is it takes everyone to help with big tasks in life.

You can have them pantomime, give them one simple line each or have them improvise their own longer lines.

I've also used classic fairy tales and read the story for them to "act" out as the story is read. Pick something they are already familiar with.

If you have the time, Creative Teaching Press has some nice "Readers Theater" style plays even at the K-1 level. I also like the book Creative Dramatics for Children (published by Pearson or Good Year Books)--an older resource, but still in print--I'll never sell my copy because I've used it for so many years with many different ages.  :o)

Answer 9

You can do a play about little red riding hood some one can be little red the other the wolf,then another child can be the grandma and other people in the play and then they can do a musical in the middle of the play good luck in finding a play