The Elves and the Shoemakers Learning Resource - Theatre ...

Objective
Foundation Stage: Lesson 3
Links to Curriculum Framework:
Communication and Language;
Expressive and Aesthetic Development;
Emotional, Personal and Social
Learning activity: Drawing
Duration: 30 minutes
The children will respond to the characters in the story by choosing one to represent pictorially.
Method
Children use their imagination to create an image of a character from the story.
• Re-tell the story of The Elves and the Shoemakers.
• Ask the children to list the characters who take part in the story. Write the list on the whiteboard.
We don’t know their names, but we could make some up.
• Ask the children which is their favourite character. Encourage the children to share their ideas and
listen to others’ ideas.
• Ask the children what they think their favourite character looks like, what clothes does s/he wear?
Encourage the children to share their ideas and listen to others’ ideas.
• Ask the children to draw a picture of their favourite character from the story, and then to write a
sentence underneath saying who their character is and what they like about the character.
Use additional adults to note children’s ideas where writing is pre-emergent or needs mediating.
Rogues gallery: Children volunteer to talk about the character in their picture.
Follow up
Resources required - shoe templates, sticky back paper, metallic papers, glitter. Ask the children to
decorate a pair of Christmas shoes for their character. They could be hung on the class Christmas tree.
Success criteria
Children used their imaginations to visualise and create images of characters from the story
using media for drawing.
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