When you become characters from history you can re-live
history. Children can learn a lot from acting out historical
situations from the viewpoints of the people at the time.
Dressing up and role play are powerful aids to this experience.
Making symbolic costumes can be part of an historical enquiry.
Activity title: History comes alive
Project: Living History
Age Range:5-7 years
Activity Number:0031
Subject area: History/Drama
(Links with Art and Design)
Be a car, a lorry or a bus and paint a Tabard or a Top to show
people what you are. Show good road safety sense and drive carefully.
Use your horn and indicators to let people know what you are going
to do. Take a simple driving test. This involves role-play to stimulate language and extend children's knowledge and understanding
of road safety.
Activity title: Driving what? Driving how?
Project: Be safe on the road!
Age Range:5-7 years
Activity Number:0057
Subject area: Language, Art, number and
knowledge & understanding of the world
Paint big letters on your Tops or Tabards and see how many words the
class can make. Make a word with two other friends. Try to change the
word by changing the middle letter. Try another change. How many words
can you make by changing this letter? Now, can you make an even longer
word with some friends?
Activity title: Be a letter - be a word!
Project: Not connected
Age Range:5-7 years
Activity Number:0050
Subject area: Language and literacy
Let people know who you are. Wearing a Top that
shows your name and pictures of your favourite things
can help you to make new friends. It's great for new children
when they first arrive in school. This activity encompasses
speaking and listening and recognising letters and words.
Activity title: Getting to know people
Project: Myself and others
Age Range:5-7 years
Activity Number:0064
Subject area: PSE/Language and Literacy
Use Tabards and paint them with the clothes and colours
appropriate to the chosen character. Wear your Tabard
and let your character re-enact your story. What does your
character say and do? Talk about your favourite story.
What made you choose this character and story?
Activity title: Becoming your favourite story character
Project: All the world's a stage
Age Range:5-7 years
Activity Number:0045
Subject area: Language and Art
Dressing up allows children to act out different
situations and to role play different people.
It can be an individual or group activity. Everybody
can become the character of their choice. It is fun to
use a big box of remnants or offcuts that stick to
Velcro dots. Hang whatever you can find on to your
Playsuit - don't forget hats and other accessories
when stocking your box.
Activity title: Ragtime
Project: Not connected
Age Range:5-7 years
Activity Number:0073
Subject area: Language and Role-play
We all do! Make up a long train by painting
windows on tabards. Standing together, the children can become a train with
many carriages. It's fun, it's exciting and it is all about sequencing numbers.
What order will the carriages be in today?
Activity title: Playing Trains
Project: Number games
Age Range:5-7 years
Activity Number:0059
Subject area: Mathematics
Celebrate Diwali, the Festival of Light. Make Rangoli and
Mendhi patterns and paint a large exciting mural of Rama
and the demon Ravana. Design your own diva lamp to
welcome good fortune for the coming year.
Activity title: Festival of Light - Diwali
Project: Celebrations and Festivals
Age Range:5-7 years
Activity Number:0079
Subject area: Art and Design
(Links with Religious Education and PSE)
Be a road sign. What will you be? A traffic light? No entry?
No overtaking? Classmates on bikes can cycle around and
see what the signs say. These signs can speak of course.
What will they say? Stop? Go? No right turn? This role play
stimulates language and knowledge and understanding of
road safely. It involves painting a Tabard to become a sign.
Activity title: Road signs
Project: Be safe on the road
Age Range:5-7 years
Activity Number:0058
Subject area: Drama
Use Tabards and cover them all over in bright flowers.
Choose the right colours and paint.
Stand all in a line to be a hedgerow or a formal flower display.
What colours go best together?
Change around and try different colour combinations.
Exploring and matching the colour of flowers
Activity title: Field of Flowers
Project: Colour
Age Range:5-7 years
Activity Number:0044
Subject area: Art/Painting (links with Science)
Use Tops and paint numbers for each child to wear.
Sums become fun when you add up children and
ask who is wearing the equal sign today? Plus or minus,
it's easy when the children are the numbers. Put the
garments back in the box and pull out new
numbers each time.
Activity title: Adding up people
Project: Number games
Age Range:5-7 years
Activity Number:0048
Subject area: Mathematics
So whose birthday is it? Let's dress up and give them
a really big surprise. Decide what you want to say to
them and wear it at the party. Think what's really funny or maybe
just wear the date - after all it is a very special date. Dressing up
is a good way to give the Birthday person a really good day.
Activity title: Birthdays
Project: Celebrations and Festivals
Age Range:5-7 years
Activity Number:0072
Subject area: PSE
Be a robot with your friends. Design a robot suit and learn to
move mechanically like a robot. How do robots turn and how
do they sit down? Programme a friend to negotiate an obstacle
course! Exploring position, direction and movement through
developing sequences of instructions.
Activity title: Robots and mechanical people
Project: Not connected
Age Range:5-7 years
Activity Number:0046
Subject area: Math/ICT
Be a clown and make people laugh! Design your own
clown costume. Work with a friend to put on a performance
that will make your audience laugh and will be lots of fun
for you too!
Activity title: Clowns and comedy
Project: All the world's a stage
Age Range:5-7 years
Activity Number:0055
Subject area: Art and Design/Drama
(strong links with Language and P.E.)
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