Name: Lights, Camera, Action Preschool Activity Pack
SKU: 6452b8761224f70019fe0278
Price: 39.99 USD
Availability: InStock

About this resource

What's inside this resource

Lights, Camera, Action Preschool Activity Pack

As a preschool teacher, you know just how important it is to provide your young learners with a rich learning experience. From hands-on learning to student-led activities, we know how critical it can be to prepare in advance. A day with a classroom full of preschool students can escape you quickly! Even though plans always change, beginning the day (and week) with explicit activity plans can keep you guided in the right direction. If you are searching for a plethora of themed activities to implement with your preschoolers, there are many for you to enjoy in my store.

What You Get

This is a Lights, Camera, Action Preschool Activity Pack. This packet is filled with a range of different themed activities. The type of activities you can expect to see are:

-- Arts and Crafts

-- Activities

-- Fun and Fitness/Games

-- Classroom Enhancements/Prop Box

-- Science Activity

-- Songs/Poems

-- Cooking Activity

-- Field Trip Ideas

How To Utilize the Lights, Camera, Action Preschool Activity Pack:

Use this Lights, Camera, Action Preschool Activity Pack as a concrete step stone to guide your instruction with your preschool students. You can expect each activity to provide you with explicit details from what you may need to how exactly to implement the activity. As you consider each potential activity included, think about the resources that you have readily available to implement them. You’ll also want to consider the temperament of your classroom and how well they may or may not respond to certain activities and instruction. Finally, you’ll think about the background knowledge they may already collectively have on the topic. With all of these things in mind, you can take away activities and replace them with new ones. You can find ways to extend activities that you know they will especially benefit from.

I hope you enjoy!

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In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Engage in simple pretend-play and movement prompts (e.g., imitating an animal or a hatching bird).
Perform a short scripted play with an assigned character role, reading or acting out full dialogue.
Identify theater-related vocabulary in English and, for a separate list, in Spanish.
For a directing teacher or camp leader, apply story-dramatization technique, stage blocking terminology, and rehearsal management to lead a youth theater production.

Teaching tips

Treat this as a curriculum idea bank to draw individual activities from rather than a single sequential lesson, since it spans very simple preschool pretend-play prompts through professional-level youth-theater-directing guidance in one file.
Reserve the 'Mixed-Up Fairy Tale' script, the drama-vocabulary list, and the blocking/rehearsal-management guidance for elementary-age or older students and their adult directors; preschoolers are better matched to the pretend-play prompts and simple craft/activity ideas.
Check external lesson-plan and script website links before class, since several were last verified when the resource was created and domains can change over time.

Skills covered

Imaginative pretend-play — younger children act out simple prompts (an animal, a hatching bird) using movement and imagination.
Scripted performance — students assigned a character in the fairy-tale mash-up script read or act out full dialogue with stage directions.
Theater vocabulary acquisition — students or teachers learn theater-specific terms in English, a parallel Spanish list, and stage-blocking terminology.
Production management — a teacher or leader applies rehearsal-management and story-dramatization guidance to run a youth theater production.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

Who are the characters in the included play script, and what fairy tales do they come from?

The 'Mixed-Up Fairy Tale' script combines characters from several different stories into one plot: Cinderella, her Wicked Stepmother, and the Magic Mirror from Cinderella; Rumpelstiltskin; the Frog Prince; Little Bo Peep; and a Horse, so the humor comes from characters who don't normally meet interacting with one another.

What does the directing guidance in the later pages cover?

It covers running a youth theater production end to end: selecting a suitable play, managing rehearsals, using stage-blocking terms (like downstage left or downstage center) to position actors for emotional effect, using story dramatization to adapt literature into performance, and handling the emotional wind-down after a show, explicitly noting drama therapy requires professional training.