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5 Creative Drama Ideas For Your Classroom

Drama Teaching, Drama Teaching Tips, Features, Primary Drama

Five incredible ways to explode your lessons using drama across the primary curriculum in any school or drama club!

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Sculptor and Statue

Drama Games, Improvisation, Mime and Movement

Students work in pairs and one mould the other’s body into a character, shape or emotion.

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Poetry in Motion

Drama Games, Mime and Movement, Speaking and Listening

Groups explore short or long poems through drama and movement.

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Bringing Fairy Tales to Life through Drama

Drama Teaching, Drama Teaching Tips, Features, Primary Drama

Ways to develop fairy and folk tales into rehearsed performances, improvisations, tableaux and oral storytelling.

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Adverb Game

Drama Games, Improvisation, Language

Guess the emotion/action and adverb in this hilarious mime guessing game

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What Are You Doing?

Concentration, Drama Games, Language, Mime and Movement, Warm Ups

Quick thinking and action is essential in this funny mime and spoken language drama game.

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Flashbacks and Flash Forwards

Drama Strategies

Expand on a freeze-frame to create the before and after images. Great strategy for story building in drama.

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Soundscapes

Drama Games, Sound, Speaking and Listening, Storytelling

The group is conducted to create a sound picture or “soundscape” using their voices and bodies.

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Imaginarium

Drama Games, Mime and Movement, Speaking and Listening, Storytelling

An exciting and completely unpredictable way to use body shapes to brainstorm ideas.

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The Refugee Cat Drama Unit (5-11 years)

Download - Primary

The incredible real-life story of a refugee family and their cat told through storytelling, video and drama activities.

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