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Assemblies for Autumn Festivals
Martin Cox
27 ready-to-use ideas for festivals and feast days
Nursery Rhyme Nativities
Three easy-to-perform plays for pre-school and early years learning
Brian Ogden
Uses popular nursery tunes to tell the story of Christmas. Plays written to meet the needs of Foundation/Reception, Year One and pre-school groups.
If you've enjoyed this, you also enjoy Sing a Song of Seasons by the same author.
Easy Ways to Christmas Plays
Three complete plays with photocopy permission
Vicki Howie
Contains three simple yet effective nativity plays suitable for use with children aged 3-7: ‘Come to my party!’, ‘The star who couldn’t twinkle’ and ‘Shine your lights!’ Now you can put on that nativity play!
Sing a Song of Seasons
Five easy-to-perform plays for pre-school and early years learning
Brian Ogden
Where can you find ready-made, easy-to-perform plays for very young children with a minimum of fuss? Why, in Brian Ogden’s Sing a Song of Seasons, of course! There are plenty of occasions throughout the year when children’s leaders everywhere will be looking to involve their groups in simple, dramatized presentations. This new resource is brimming with ideas for props, costumes and manageable preparation, and provides text for adult narration and stage directions for simple actions by the children. With its songs based on popular nursery rhymes, this book is ideal for creating cheerful and lively plays, involving even the youngest children in learning through drama.
Sing a Song of Seasons - PDF Download
Sing a Song of Seasons is now available as a PDF Download.
Easy Ways to Christmas Plays
Three complete plays with photocopy permission
Vicki Howie
Contains three simple yet effective nativity plays suitable for use with children aged 3-7: ‘Come to my party!’, ‘The star who couldn’t twinkle’ and ‘Shine your lights!’ Now you can put on that nativity play!
This Man Called Jesus
An easy-to-run Easter play complete with music and cross-curricular project work
Eleanor Jeans
Written especially for children at Key Stage 2, the material in this book was devised and developed with a Year 4 class in the weeks leading up to Easter 2003, inspired by the author’s work as a music teacher over a number of years. Following the story of Easter from Palm Sunday to Easter Day and complete with scripts, music, and wordsheets, This Man Called Jesus not only links into the National Framework for RE but also contains links to other curriculum subjects. Due to its flexibility, the material would also be suited to church-based children’s leaders, drama leaders and any clergy or lay minister involved in all-age worship.
Story Plays for Christmas
Three plays complete with stories and interactive activities
Vicki Howie
From the author of the very popular Easy Ways series, these easy-to-stage Christmas plays are for use with groups of 7 to 11-year-olds. Each play is introduced with a story version, followed by games and activities to help children explore it. There are three plays to choose from: ‘Have you seen Christmas?’, ‘The earth looks forward to Christmas’ and ‘Jump for joy!’ Each is designed to explore the wonder and joy of the Christmas period in a way that makes it easy and enjoyable for everyone involved. Contains photocopy permission.
Practical Ways to Christmas Plays
Five Christmas plays for 7-11s, complete with ‘beyond the script’ preparation material and photocopy permission
Stephanie Jeffs
Each play includes flexible casting, choral narratives and comprehensive ‘beyond the script’ preparation material. Choice of five plays, each geared towards specific year groups.
Topsy Turvy Christmas
A musical play for Christmas
Lucy Moore
Clear Christmas message with easy-to-learn speaking parts. Includes simply notated piano score for all original songs and photocopy permission on scripts and songs.
Download the Topsy Turvy songs and music as mp3s!
Getting Ready for Christmas
Creative ideas for assemblies, drama and cross-curricular activities
Meg Harper
This book contains a wealth of ideas for cross-curricular teaching designed to give a host of fresh ideas for the last few weeks of the Christmas term. The material includes a mix of practical, literary and academic tasks, all linked to the National Curriculum.
The Gospels Unplugged
52 poems and stories for creative writing, RE, drama and collective worship
Lucy Moore
Drawn from all four Gospels, the pieces are ‘unplugged’ in that they get to the heart of the biblical text, reflecting the life of Jesus in action-who he is, what he said and what he did.
See also The Lord's Prayer Unplugged by Lucy Moore
