Creative dramatics involves children structuring and enacting scenes, stories, or events, typically from literature. It differs from pretend play in being carefully planned and led by a teacher. Creative dramatics allows children to experience stories firsthand through assuming roles and improvising dialogue. By identifying with characters, books become more meaningful for children, while the process of dramatizing stories helps in their social and cognitive development. Teachers should guide creative dramatics activities and ensure not every story detail is enacted. Suggested activities include acting out story titles, reading dialogue, dressing as characters, and dramatizing familiar tales.

1. Creative Dramatics

2. Pretending at play is
natural activity of
childhood. Children spend
much of their own free
time pretending to be
certain characters and to
have imaginary
adventures.

3. Play activity of this nature is
preparatory education for adulthood.
Children, through their imaginative
play, will be able to cope better with
the realities and dreams of the adult
when they reach maturity.
The free play of kindergarten children in
school is dramatic play activity. Playing
with trucks or pretending to drive them
is a dramatic play activity.

4. Creative Dramatics
Is a structured play experience that is
carefully planned and executed.
Children can create or recreate a
scene, an episode, a problem, or
an event, usually from literature,
under a teacher’s guide.
Dialogue is extemporaneous.
Children may plan in advance
which scenes may be reenacted.

5. Creative Dramatics
Costumes are not necessary, but
simple costumes can add to the
enjoyment of children.
There are no stage properties
and scenery.
The only requirement of
creative dramatics is a group
of children with a qualified
leader and a space for them.
Teachers guides them to see that not
every detail of a story need not be
dramatized.

6. Creative Dramatics
Creative drama should not be
confused with dramatic play or with
other activities that make use of
drama.
It should not be confused with role-
playing or socio-drama.
Folktales, incidents from children’s
stories offer opportunities for this kind
of creative activity.

7. Creative Dramatics
Books become more real to children
as they identify with the character
through creative activity. The values
of creative drama lies in the process
of playing.

8. Creative Dramatics
Some ideas for creative
dramatization:
1. A children acts out the title of
a book or poem which has color
on it.
2. A child may read aloud the
dialogue from a story.

9. Creative Dramatics
Some ideas for creative
dramatization:
3. A child may dress as a
character from literature.
4. Children may dramatize a story
they have heard or read.

10. Creative Dramatics
Some ideas for creative
dramatization:
5. Writing original script is an
activity that can be done at the
higher grade levels.

11. The End
Prepared by:
HERSHE PEÑAS