RIC-20939 Early years Fairytales - Riding Hood

Little Red Riding Hood – 3
Drama
• Assist children to make finger puppets of characters
in the fairytale. Refer to the blackline on page 94.
Photocopy onto white construction paper. Colour and
cut out sets of puppets for children to practise oral
language skills in small groups and develop a finger
puppet play of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’.
• Make characters and props (basket, woods, flowers,
house, bed) from felt for the children to use to retell the
fairytale on a felt board.
• Mime actions and events in the fairytale; e.g. Little
Red Riding Hood skipping through the woods with
her basket; Little Red Riding Hood picking flowers;
her mother making cupcakes for Grandma; the wolf
putting on Grandma’s glasses, nightcap and nightie,
then getting into bed. Practising movements from the
fairytale will help later if children dress up and perform
as characters in a play of the story.
• The wolf disguised himself as Grandma. Provide a box
of dress-up clothes, including wigs and glasses, for the
children to try to ‘disguise’ themselves and role-play
being someone or something else.
• The wolf tried to disguise his voice when pretending to
be Grandma. The children can practise trying to disguise
their voices in a game. One child stands out the front
with his or her back to the rest of the group, who are
sitting on the floor/mat. The child asks: ‘Grandma, what
big eyes/big ears/big nose/big teeth you have!’ Teacher
points to a sitting child who says in a disguised voice:
‘All the better to see you/hear you/smell you/eat you
with, my dear!’ The child standing has to guess which
child is speaking. Another suitable voice recognition
game is ‘Kangaroo, skippy roo’.
• The children could help to suggest lines to create a
simple playscript with which to practise and perform
the fairytale. The teacher can be the narrator while the
children act out the play. Ideas for simple costumes:
Red Riding Hood – red cloth material/blanket for cloak,
basket of food (scrunched paper with tea towel covering
contents); Wolf in woods – grey tracksuit pants and
top, tail cut from fur-looking material, mask (see page
95) or a simple headband with grey paper ears stuck
on; mother – dress or skirt and top, could have apron
on; Grandma – nightie, glasses frame without lenses,
cloth shower cap for nightcap, slippers; wolf dressed
as Grandma – same as Grandma but wearing mask
or headband under glasses or wearing fake costume
teeth; woodcutter – jeans, checked shirt, shoes, plastic
or cardboard axe.
• An often favourite part of the fairytale is the conversation
between Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf in
Grandma’s bed. One child can be the wolf dressed
up as Grandma (see above), laying in a beanbag
with a rug on. Another child is dressed as Little Red
Riding Hood. They can practise the conversation using
expression and emphasis.
Technology and design
• The children help to collect a variety of items such
as baskets, backpacks, plastic bags, paper bags,
handbags and laundry baskets that can carry things.
They can try to work out what each is made of. A
number of the same things can be placed in each
container to find out if the container is strong enough or
big enough. They could decide the most suitable things
each container could carry, according to its design.
• Play an interactive game on the following site, which
involves Little Red Riding Hood eating as many biscuits
as she can before the wolf catches her: .
• Play an interactive game on the following site, which
involves clearing a path in the woods to help Little Red
Riding Hood find her way to Grandma’s house: .
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