Drama and Nativity Plays

Nativity Plays

Find out more about Our Christmas PlayOur Christmas Play
An easy-to-perform nursery rhyme play for Christmas
Brian Ogden

Published September 2010

Our Christmas Play is an easy-to-perform play for use with Foundation/Reception and Key Stage One pupils. The performance is ideal as part of a whole school presentation, as a class or year group assembly, as a school production with parents and visitors present, or as a celebration in church.

Nursery Rhyme Nativities 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 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!

Find out more about Easy Ways to Christmas Plays Volume 2

Easy Ways to Christmas Plays Volume 2
Three easy-to-perform plays for 3-7s
Vicki Howie

Topsy Turvy Music Downloads

The book Topsy Turvy Christmas is no longer available, but the music is still available if you have a copy of the book. Thirteen original songs and backing tracks for the Topsy Turvy Christmas play, available to download as an mp3. Pick and choose the tracks you want. Each track is only £0.79!

Drama

Find out more about Emmanuel... assemblies for ChristmasEmmanuel... assemblies for Christmas
A musical and dramatic retelling of the Christmas story
Mark Baxter

Published September 2010

This resource provides all you need for an easy-to-use musical and dramatic interpretation of the Christmas story. It offers the flexibility to run a series of five assemblies in the busy lead-up to Christmas, a stand-alone act of worship with presentation readings, or an end-of-term presentation in school or service in the local church. The material is ideal for Key Stage 2 assemblies.

Our Easter Play

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.

Sing a Song of Seasons Sing a Song of Seasons (PDF Download)
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.

All Age Sketches All-age Sketches for the Christian Year
20 easy-to-perform sketches for major festivals and popular celebrations
Peter Shaw

Each of these short sketches requires a handful of actors, simple costumes and everyday props. Entertaining and thought-provoking, the sketches will appeal to all ages and cover a number of special occasions through the year, including Christmas, Mother's Day and Harvest. The book also contains a short practical guide to performing each drama. Ideal for injecting fun into church services, the sketches are also suitable for outreach events, youth work, children's camps and church weekends away.

The Gospels Unplugged 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.
Age range 7-11

See also The Lord's Prayer Unplugged by Lucy Moore

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