Roll the dice and create something amazing!
This is a roll the dice board game for Creative Writing. It consists of a vibrant grid full of images, words and phrases to provoke outside-the-box thinking and writing!
Students roll the dice to choose a genre, then roll again moving across the board to land on weird and wonderful prompts, including a frog, thunderstorm, chain-link fence, digger and orca.
This has produced some really outstanding writing from my students and can be used to aid writers' block in even the most reluctant of budding authors.
NOTE: This product requires you to supply your own dice.
Elf tells the story of ‘Buddy the Elf’ who was accidentally taken to the North Pole in Santa’s sack one Christmas Eve. He stayed in the North Pole until adulthood and grew up thinking he was an elf himself. One day he found out he was a human, and decided to go and visit his biological father in New York.
On arrival he wasn’t welcomed by his father until a DNA test reassured him that he was actually his son. The family grew to like Buddy, and he also found a girlfriend – but then everything changed when he fell out with his father one day and decided to leave.
But as he was walking alone he heard a crash in Central Park, when he went to investigate he noticed it was his good friend, Santa. The family caught up with him and realised he had been telling the truth all along, he was in fact an elf from the North Pole. The friends and family all worked together to lift Christmas spirit and thus power Santa’s sleigh to ensure he could finish his deliveries.
There are song recommendations throughout the script, with a mixture of traditional Christmas songs and modern songs. There are 20-22 speaking parts, with additional non-speaking roles too.
I hope you have fun with it, my class had a ball! The play is around 40-50 minutes long.
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SPACE ROCKET
ROLE PLAY and DISPLAY RESOURCES
Resources included are as follows:
62 PDF files for you to print.
Role play resources include astronaut face masks and badges, astronaut of the day poster, alien hand puppet and large story props, extra large rocket for display, long banner to head display, characters and space item flashcards, buntings, rocket task checklist, mind map, log book to fill in, rocket photo posters, noun/verb/adjectives posters, dials and buttons for rocket dashboard, stars for display, compass, warning and caution signs, signs to display around the rocket for different items and areas, count down from 10 to blast off presentation, display borders and backing paper, alien colouring pages, card matching game, certificates, shapes worksheets, writing sheets, addition worksheets, diary writing, draw a rocket, draw an alien, invitation to complete, handwriting sheets, all about rockets booklet to write, message to write from and to aliens, size order telescopes to put in order, number flashcards with rockets, planet posters with numbers, window view images, word mat, number pyramids to complete, acrostic poem, cut and stick task, word search, ck words, work booklet cover, story board, table top number line, space words flashcards with name and description, times tables cards etc.
A bumper pack to help you create a stimulating and exciting art and design area in your classroom
The pack has been used in the Early Years and throughout key stage 1 and 2.
The pack includes:
Colour paint tins for the everyday colours plus the more unusual colours such as beige, navy, cream, turquoise etc,
Colour ‘splats’ to make a number line up to 50,
‘Challenge’ cards featuring a wizard with challenges such as ‘make a hat’, ‘make a car’ and a blank challenge sheet for you to write your own challenges for your class,
Topic words for display and labelling (small and larger) with words such as scissors, paint, crayons, stapler etc,
Paint mixing pallets to show which colours can be mixed together to make new colours,
Art words such as ‘symmetry’, ‘sketch’, ‘bright’, ‘spiral’ etc
Posters to motivate the children such as ‘can you paint with your fingers, string etc’, ‘can you paint your favourite part of a story?’ etc
The resource will be sent to you on CD in pdf format.
A great time saving pack for the busy teacher!
A bumper pack with lots of posters, banners and pictures to set up a role play area of a Cafe
The pack is great for use in the EYFS and also within KS1 and KS2
The pack includes:
A large banner with ‘Cafe’, decorated with food pictures
A large banner with ‘Restaurant’, decorated with food pictures
Large coloured pictures of different food to buy and the crockery to use
A colourful drinks poster
A large colourful food poster
Hats to make for the staff to wear
Name badges to make for the staff to wear
A colourful poster with space for you to add the price of the food- this enables you to price it according to the ability of the children
Sandwich filling labels, drinks labels and food labels
A large colourful sandwich filling poster
An open and closed sign for you cafe with pictures of food on
Opening times posters for you cafe
A sandwich filling order form with pictures of the different sandwich types and fillings available
A colour and black and white menu for your cafe
Order forms in colour and black and white for the cafe
Decorated notes and messages paper to encourage writing in the role play area
Do you have students who shrug at inspiration and puff their cheeks at imagination? Use this great tool for slow writing to get them thinking about not just what to write, but how to write it.
Currently with 54 different sentence types, print these back-to-back (flipping the page on the short edge), then guillotine the cards, eh voila!
Shuffle the cards and get writing.
Each card comes with an explanation and at least one example to help guide your students in their writing:
Example: the chiasmus sentence
A repetition (in reverse order) or words, phrases or ideas already expressed (balanced clauses reverse each other).
Readers don’t need to write but writers do need to read.
Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
This is a script that has been performed successfully by primary school aged children with adults, but can be performed by high school age and above. It’s 1 hour without an interval but has been written as two 30 minute Acts. Including the music adds about 10 minutes on each Act.
The lines are suitable for children to learn (in our performance Oliver and Dodger were 8 years old) and has a suitable ending for a children’s production.
The cover picture gives you an idea of costume and staging. I have had media consents to use this picture.
Everything you need to set up a Christmas Role Play Area/Santa’s Workshop in your classroom.
This resource includes colourful signs and activities.
Promote independent writing with templates for:
Letters to Santa
List writing
Santa’s present list
Christmas themed paper lined and unlined
Christmas cards
To use in Santa’s workshop -
Labels for presents
Design a toy
Decorations to cut out and decorate
Plot Santa’s route on a map of the world
Decorate a Christmas tree and a gingerbread
Word mat
This is a 30 page creative expression book which is great for children to express what they want, need and give them a safe place to express themselves with freedom or safety. Each page contains a question/idea for a drawing allowing the child to explore feelings, emotions and dreams. The book can support the child to express themselves in a safe way instead of relying on talking which can be a lot more difficult and confronting, especially for children who have had difficult childhood experiences.
This book is about giving a voice and giving the child a choice as to what creative medium they would like – finger paint, draw, sketch, colour, write, anyway they want to express themselves.
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All Therapy Resources pride ourselves on creating therapeutic, behavioural and educational resources that we use in-house within our own practice. This means that our resources are tried and tested by a team of Allied Health professionals - Counsellors, Occupational and Speech Therapists, Behaviour Practitioners, Play Therapists and Psychologists - so we know they work!
Because we are fortunate to have such a wonderful and diverse range of clients, our resources cover a broad spectrum of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) topics. These include resources on Impulse Control, Anger Management, Anxiety, Mental Health and psychotherapy treatment, DBT and CBT interventions, Social and Friendship Skills , Conflict Management, SPED, Individual and Group Curriculums, Executive Functioning, Classroom Management, Career Exploration, Counselling Documentation and even Professional Development. We want to see everyone thrive, and our resources can help ensure that you can too.
This is a 30 page creative expression book which is great for children to express what they want, need and give them a safe place to express themselves with freedom or safety. Each page contains a question/idea for a drawing allowing the child to explore feelings, emotions and dreams. The book can support the child to express themselves in a safe way instead of relying on talking which can be a lot more difficult and confronting, especially for children who have had difficult childhood experiences.
This book is about giving a voice and giving the child a choice as to what creative medium they would like – finger paint, draw, sketch, colour, write, anyway they want to express themselves.
ABOUT US
All Therapy Resources pride ourselves on creating therapeutic, behavioural and educational resources that we use in-house within our own practice. This means that our resources are tried and tested by a team of Allied Health professionals - Counsellors, Occupational and Speech Therapists, Behaviour Practitioners, Play Therapists and Psychologists - so we know they work!
Because we are fortunate to have such a wonderful and diverse range of clients, our resources cover a broad spectrum of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) topics. These include resources on Impulse Control, Anger Management, Anxiety, Mental Health and psychotherapy treatment, DBT and CBT interventions, Social and Friendship Skills , Conflict Management, SPED, Individual and Group Curriculums, Executive Functioning, Classroom Management, Career Exploration, Counselling Documentation and even Professional Development. We want to see everyone thrive, and our resources can help ensure that you can too.
Get your acting pants on for this fun, dreaming-inspired play!
Use the Performing the Dreaming Resource Bundle to engage your students in a study of the dreaming and its significance to Indigenous Australians!
Australian Curriculum Links: ACHASSK083
This resource is delivered as a 13 page PDF in A4 size.
So, what's included?
✓ Dozens of ideas to introduce the topic, dig a little deeper and get creative with it!
✓ Playscript for dreaming-inspired play: Why the Bat has No Friends, containing 10 speaking roles
✓ 'Why the Bat has No Friends' extension worksheet
✓ 'Dust Echoes' story evaluation worksheet
✓ Unique Aussie Animals worksheet
✓ Performance Invitation template
Purchase Issue 29 of HistoriCool Magazine in print or digital format to use this resource alongside the coinciding mag.
The pack includes:
A Garden Centre sign
A 'Welcome' poster
A decorated clock to make with moveable clock hands
Open and closed signs
Opening times posters
A 'Pay here' poster
Display words with photos and words of different gardening tools and equipment
Large grass themed lettering spelling 'Garden Centre'
Colourful number flowers
A set of colour posters with flowers in pots of different colours and the colour names- these also look great in your gardening area
Price labels to add to the price signs
Phonemes from the Letters and Sounds scheme on leaves
Posters to show step by step how to plant a seed
Posters advertising sheds and greenhouses for sale to display in the Garden Centre
Vegetable seeds packets
Flower seed packets
Flower bulb packets
A colourful garden gnome alphabet line
A 'Grow your own vegetables' poster
Banners to display in different areas of your Garden Centre- 'Vegetable Seeds', 'Flower Seeds', 'Gardening Tools' and 'Plants'
Hats to make for the Garden Centre staff to wear
Large photo pictures of different garden tools and equipment
A poster to advertise Gift vouchers
Gift vouchers
A Sunflower number line
Book labels- 'Order Book', 'Messages' and 'Stock Book'
Posters for a Children's Gardening Club
Writing resources:
A blank poster for children to write special offers, messages etc
Blank 'Special Offer' posters
A Garden Design sheet with space to write a shopping list of things they need for their garden
A Gift Voucher card with space to write a message
A Garden Centre loyalty card
Badges to write their names on
Make a seed packet and write the growing instructions on the back
Decorated note paper
Decorated telephone messages pages
A Garden Centre order form
A decorated shopping list
Blank price signs to write the prices of different items in the Garden Centre
The posters, signs and pictures will create a motivating and colourful role play area either inside your classroom or in your outside area which will encourage the children to further their vocabulary and language and encourage writing for different purposes.
Five Christmas play scripts for just £15, each is usually priced at £4.75.
For individual previews check out the links below.
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The first play script is a funny play based on the Will Ferrell movie - Elf. The script follows the story line of the movie with Buddy the Elf being a human who is raised as an elf in the North Pole. Buddy finds out the truth and goes looking for his family who are not too receptive about his appearance or general behavior! But Buddy turns them all around before finally saving Christmas with his festive cheer! There are song recommendations throughout the script, with a mixture of traditional Christmas songs and modern songs. There are 20-22 speaking parts, with additional non-speaking roles too. The play is around 40-50 minutes long.
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Secondly, we have The Grinch which is a funny play loosely based on the Grinch by Dr. Seuss, and the well known movie. The story revolves around the town of Whoville, where all the Whos love Christmas. In fact they love Christmas so much it is all they talk about! However, a mysterious outcast lives to the North of the town; this outcast hates Christmas and anything to do with the festive time of year. The Grinch has a plan to ruin Christmas for the town, and steals all the presents on Christmas eve. He has a change of heart however when he hears the town enjoying Christmas even though he had stolen all of the presents. His heart grows and he quickly returns the gifts and takes part in all the festivities. There are song recommendations throughout the script, with a mixture of traditional Christmas songs and modern songs. There are 28 speaking parts, with additional non-speaking roles too for up to 30 students. The play is around 40-50 minutes long.
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Thirdly, we have a play script for A Christmas Carol, however it is a modern remake that is based in a school - with the head teacher being Ebenezer Scrooge - you can change the names of the characters to teachers in your school, or to rhyme with teachers in your school as I did (if they have a sense of humour)! There are song recommendations throughout the script, with a mixture of traditional Christmas songs and modern songs. There are 20-22 speaking parts, with additional non-speaking roles too.
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Then, we have a funny play based on the Tim Allen movie - The Santa Clause. The script follows the movies story line of a man who accidently disrupts Santa’s deliveries and has to take over his route before finding his way to Santa’s work shop. He then slowly starts turning into Santa, which everybody else finds hard to believe! There are song recommendations throughout the script, with a mixture of traditional Christmas songs and modern songs. There are 20-22 speaking parts, with additional non-speaking roles too. The play is around 40-50 minutes long.
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And finally a play script for A Christmas Carol; it is a traditional version that follows Ebenezer Scrooge’s hauntings through the night of Christmas Eve. There are song recommendations throughout the script and roles for 20-22 speaking parts.
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This pack includes a selection of worksheets and display resources related to The Polar Express that can be used in EYFS and KS1:
Storyboard worksheet
Character adjectives worksheet
Character descriptions worksheet
Hot seating worksheet
Writing frame starter page and two different continuing sheets
Letter to Santa worksheet
Word mat
Word cards
Bar chart activity
Wordsearch
Santa’s sack worksheet
Polar Express tickets (Colour labelled, colour not labelled and black and white)
Christmas tree black and white colouring sheet
Polar Express train black and white colouring sheet
Presents black and white colouring sheet (4 different styles)
Elf black and white colouring sheet
Santa black and white colouring sheet
Example worksheets are images purely for the purpose of the listing viewing display.
Clipart by TeacherKarma.com
Borders by S’amore Teaching and Learning and Creative Clips
Short tasks module taken created from the expressive arts short course on creative and visual journaling . Contains research tasks, drawing tasks and an independent project. Suitable for in class teaching or home work based projects. Suitable for ages 10-15 and SEN classes.
This resource encourages learners to think about how masks became a commodity associated with fashion throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Masks therefore became a means of self-expression, creativity and entrepreneurship.
This is the third activity in a series of resources designed around masks. See the others below:
Examining masks using slow looking
Masks within performance
Masks as a symbol of protest
Masks as a means of protection
SHAPE is a collective name for social sciences, humanities and the arts. SHAPE subjects play a vital role within our communities and in shaping our lives – past, present and future. SHAPE skills give us the tools to enact change and allow us to better understand the world by providing a myriad of ways to express, analyse and interpret our global world and human experiences.
For more information about the underpinning principles of the resources, visit our website.
