An easy-to-perform nursery rhyme play for Easter
Brian Ogden
The story is seen through the eyes of Jesus' disciple, Peter, and introduces the events of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Day, ending with the post-resurrection story of Jesus preparing breakfast for his friends on the shores of Lake Galilee.
Our Easter Play is an easy-to-perform play for early learners, ideal for an assembly presentation, as the basis for a classroom project linking RE and PSHE or Drama at Foundation and KS1, or performed to an invited audience.
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 (PDF Download)
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.
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!
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