@The Arts Unit Creative Classes
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Develop expressive skills through familiar characters and movement
Develop expressive skills through familiar characters and movement
Student drama resource developed by The Arts Unit
Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2 drama
What will I learn?
What will I learn?
You will:
explore elements of drama to create characters
develop expressive skills through movement and voice
perform familiar characters
respond imaginatively.
Welcome to the class
Duration: 00:28Before you begin
Before you begin
All aboard! I hope you have lots of energy today and are ready to discover more about drama and how to express yourself as a character!
You'll need:
space to move around safely
paper, pencils
camera or phone.
- Watch
Verbal instructions – Task 1
Duration: 00:32Task 1
Task 1
Watch the video 'Train Ride' by Greystanes Public School from the 2018 State Drama Festival.
State Drama Festival 2018 – Train Ride
Greystanes Public SchoolDuration: 04:502. Explore and create
2. Explore and create
Verbal instructions – Task 2
Duration: 00:37Task 2
Task 2
Explore the 5 characters by looking at the video and these images below.
Create each character using your body and face.
Remember to think about:
how they stand
what their face looks like
how they move
how they sound.
Tip: Looking in a mirror can help you to see how you change your body as each character.
Ask someone to take a photo of you as each character to share with your teacher.
Happy princess
Cranky train conductor
Strong pirate
Curious gorilla
Crazy clown
Photo credit: Anna Warr
Verbal instructions – Task 3
Duration: 00:37Task 3
Task 3
Now we are going to bring each of the characters to life!
Move around the room acting like each character and wave or say hello to someone as each character.
Think carefully about how the princess or pirate would wave hello!
Verbal instructions – Task 4
Duration: 00:36Task 4
Task 4
Choose your favourite character and act like they did in the play.
Remember what each character was doing in the video:
the princess was playing a tambourine
the pirate was singing
the gorilla was dancing
the clown was doing tricks
the train conductor was being cranky.
If you would like to pretend to be more than one, that's great!
3. Respond
3. Respond
Verbal instructions – Task 5
Duration: 00:35Task 5
Task 5
In the performance, the students on the train created an ending for the story.
Using your imagination come up with a different ending to the story for the characters.
Share your ending with someone else.
Verbal instructions – Task 6
Duration: 00:26Task 6
Task 6
Draw a picture of one of the characters and write a sentence about where they are going on their train.
For example: The clown was going on the train to the circus.
4. Extension activities
4. Extension activities
Verbal instructions – Extension task
Duration: 00:37Extension task
Extension task
Watch and listen to 'The Train Ride' story below, which the 2018 State Drama Festival performance was based on.
Find a friend and sit in front of a window, pretending you are on a train. Talk to each other about the different things you can see out of your train window.
Draw a picture of some of the things you saw out of the window on your pretend train ride.
The Train Ride
Duration: 03:18Congratulations
Duration: 00:22Well done!
Well done!
You were a fantastic train adventurer!
We hope you enjoyed your train ride.
You have completed this @The Arts Unit Creative Class.
Third-party content attributions
Third-party content attributions
State Drama Festival images, 2018, photographer: Anna Warr.
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