Teaching Drama to Little Ones: 12 Ready-to-Go Lesson Plans for Kids Age 3-7

I really enjoy all the suggestions and steps from this book. It is a great start for teaching the children . I mortified some to suit my children choir. To prepare them on the Christmas musical.

I was in drama class all through High School and College, but I never taught it. I was asked to teach a class of young kids for drama class, and I was nervous to start. I purchased this, and it gave me the confidence I needed to dip my feet back in to the drama world. I love the warm up games and how each lesson is simple. Great if you are just starting out, or a little rusty

This book is wonderful for streamlining your plans for theatre to younger students. It allowed me, a novice, to plan an entire theatre semester for a homeschool co-op. There is much crossover and overlapping of games in whatever theatre resource you use. However, this book spared me from reading all 100+ games in another resource, when I needed to see which games would work with a younger class. It's an added bonus that the writer has organized the games into doable lesson plans, grouping games together that build on one another for that lesson's specific goal.

I teach music and drama to first and second graders and this book has been fantastic. I don't have time to do a lot of planning and searching for activities, and I love that I can pick up this book and teach without a lot of prep. I don't use all of the activities, but I use most of them and the kids love it. In fact, I have a hard time getting them excited about music because they only want to do the activities in this book.

This has been a necessary addition to my curriculum as a performing arts teacher. The kids love the movement activities especially.

Very clear and easy to read. Lots of great ideas to incorporate when working with very young actors.

Some games and activities are quite sophisticated for young children, and there isn't much to this book. With my young students receiving 2 hours of theatre time per week, this book barely guides us through 6 weeks. What then?

I used this to teach my 56 year old husband how to act because it has always been his dream. He is a slow learner so I figured this book would match his learning speed pretty well. Almost immediately he started singing around the house and imitating his favorite cartoon characters. Unfortunately he has developed some interesting tendencies such as asking me to take him to the playground but I’m happy that he is happy. He has an audition for the Broadway showing of Looney Toones this weekend and I have this book to thank for it!

Very useful well organised book that has helped me with ideas when planning and meets the need of a subject that eats ideas as fast as they can be tried and delivered. A useful point of reference for lesson planning across a range of skills and activities. As a volume looks a little sleight but delivers some handy ideas. Job done.

The lessons plans are well set out but there are only something like 12. It would be great to extend the series and expand the lessons over a year. I would also like to see a progression over different year groups. You could use the lessons with one year group but what do you do the following year? A series could help build a drama curriculum over a year and across year groups. I love the book other than that.

Excellent for KS2 and novices to teaching Drama. Highly recommended

Excellent reference book

just a few quite common drama lessons... I was expecting something more original and interesting...