Panto Season! They’re behind you!
January 2021
Sparks for thinking and talking
Discuss the typical stock characters in pantomimes. Which ones might we consider villains or heroes? Is it always that straightforward?
Sparks for drama
Ask each pair to sculpt a statue of a character for the rest of the group to guess.
There are many additional drama techniques you could use with this activity.
See Learnerama’s Drama Toolkit on the free resources page for support.
Some typical panto characters to help you!
Villains?
Captain Hook
the giant
Jafar
the Queen from ‘Snow White’
the Sheriff of Nottingham
Heroes?
Peter Pan
Jack
Aladdin
the good fairy
Robin Hood
February 2021
Good or bad?
Linking into our January Creative Spark, discuss the typical stock characters in traditional/fairy tales.
December 2020
Panto Season!
In the above story, Jack’s mum was furious and sent Jack to bed without any dinner. Let’s act it out!
