50 Projects for Creative Dramatics

by Roberta Nobleman

Handbook, 34 pages, paperbound.. $ 6.50

The teachers who tried out this handbook call it a "Recipe Book in Creative Drama," and that's exactly how you use it. Take the ingredients of a room full of children (from 5 to 12, roughly, in large or small groups), a space to work in, indoors or out, and your own enthusiastic leadership. This book tells you how to stir them into gleeful, engrossing, mind-expanding sessions in creative dramatics.

The projects are written in lesson-plan format, including Aim, Introductory Activity, Development, and suggested audio-visual aids where appropriate. Sections III ("Warm-Ups for Everyone") and VI (One-Line Beginnings for Advanced Groups") are open-ended, giving you a provocative starting point. From there, youngsters can go as far as their imaginations will carry them.

This is our all-time best-selling handbook, perhaps because it creates the structure and space for teachers to use their own creativity. Workshop leaders and education professors should stockpile it.