Snow White Education Pack 2016 - Reading Arts...... but by far the most popular is Snow White and...

© Imagine Theatre Ltd 2016 Snow White Steve Boden BEd (Hons)

Education Pack


Welcome Welcome to the world of Snow White! We are delighted that you have chosen to visit our pantomime and we look forward to welcoming you and your pupils to the theatre and the show. This pack has been designed for the use of teachers and pupils who are due to visit, or have visited, our production. The pack contains ideas for classes and activities based on the pantomime to suit a variety of ages so please select those you feel most suited to your students. The pages have been produced in black and white for easy photocopying (apart from some photographs of costumes and sets). You have permission to reproduce as many copies as you need for your classroom work, but only for this purpose. We hope you both enjoy the show, and find this pack useful, informative and supportive to learning. We would be delighted to receive any feedback on this pack. We are keen to develop, grow and where necessary change the format and content, so future classes of children can use it, use their imagination, and grow to love the unique experience of pantomime.

Pack written and prepared by

Steve Boden B.Ed. (Hons), Imagine Theatre Ltd 2016. The photographs, designs and logos within this pack remain the copyright of Imagine Theatre Ltd


Contents

• All About…….Snow White. A brief synopsis of the story of Snow White – both the pantomime

and its background.

• The World of Theatre. A glossary of theatrical terms to help the children understand more about how the theatre works.

• Comprehension Exercise. An opportunity to understand how much the children learned from

reading the previous two sections.

• Why is Snow White? Simple Science About Snow.

• Story Telling Words. Using describing words.

• Other ideas for Written Activities. A range of ideas to allow the children to express themselves through writing.

• Putting on a Show. Activities relating to aspects of putting on a show such as set and costume

designing and scriptwriting.

• Questions and Points for Discussion in Class. Some things to discuss as a class about the pantomime and theatre in general.

• Ideas for Drama. Some activities that allow the pupils to have a go at expressing themselves through drama.

• Create a Storyboard. A template for the children to use traditional methods from the Disney

studios to create their own story.

• The Wicked Queen’s Noughts and Crosses. A fun classroom based maths game.

• Facts About Apples. Some interesting facts about this healthy snack.

• Some Simple Games. Apple bobbing and mirrors.

• Dame Dolly’s Word Search. 16 hidden words to find.

• Competition. Turn the theatre foyer into an apple orchard!

• Make a Paper Snowflake

• Colouring in.

• Wordsearch Answers.


All About……Snow White.

Where does the story come from? The story of Snow White is one of the most popular and well-known fairy stories. Although it is one of the most popular, no-one really knows where the story came from, who first told it, or how old it is. We know that the story was written down by the Brothers Grimm in their collection of folk stories and legends more than 180 years ago. The Brothers Grimm traveled around Germany picking up stories and legends and writing them down. They finally produced a book in 1815 called Children’s and Household Tales. As there were very few children’s books at the time, it became very popular. The first English version of the book appeared in 1823, with drawings by George Cruikshank, who went on to illustrate many of the Charles Dickens novels. The story has changed The story we now know as Snow White is very different to the story the Brothers Grimm told. Over the years the story has changed a lot, especially since the Disney film. Did you know

• In the original story, the dwarfs don’t have names or personalities. They are just 7 friendly little men who look after Snow White. They don’t even really feature in the story. It’s only Disney that gave them names and characters.

• In the Grimm version, Snow White was a princess who hated her mother, the Queen. The Queen tried to kill Snow White but her father, the King, found out and had the Queen executed (gruesome, eh?)

• There is no kiss in the original Snow White. In the original, the prince takes her away on a cart. The cart hits a pothole, and the jolt dislodges the apple in her throat.

The Disney Film Many fairy tales have been turned into films… but by far the most popular is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The first ever Hollywood feature length cartoon, it was a massive achievement for the team who created it. It was released in 1937, just in time for Christmas. Some people thought that Walt Disney must have been mad to consider making a cartoon film! They thought he would lose all the money he had invested in making the film… but they were wrong. Snow White was one of the biggest box office successes of its time. Without it, we wouldn’t have any of the well known Disney cartoon films today, such as Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast and Peter Pan. When Walt Disney collected his Oscar for the film, he wasn’t given one – he was given eight. One big one for him, and seven small ones for each of the dwarfs! The Story of Snow White (based upon the Disney version) Please note, the version of the story you see at the pantomime may vary from this. Once upon a time there lived a beautiful princess called Snow White. She lived happily in her parents' castle until the day her mother died. Her father, the King married again. But the new Queen hated Snow White. She was jealous of the young princess's beauty and feared that one day it would even surpass her own. That is why every day she would ask her magic mirror: "Mirror, mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest one of all?" And as long as the mirror would reply: "You are." the Queen was happy. But one day, a handsome Prince professed his love for Snow White. The Queen was furious. And her worst fear was confirmed. When she questioned her mirror, it replied: "Snow White is fairer than thee."


In her rage, the Queen ordered her huntsman to kill the princess and bring her heart back in a small box. But when the huntsman was about to fulfill his duties, he fell to his knees and begged Snow White to forgive him. "It is the Queen who told me to kill you." he cried "Run away! And never return!" Terrified, Snow White ran into the woods. She started seeing shadows and was so frightened and exasperated she lost consciousness. A little while later, she was awakened by animals who led her to a small cottage for shelter. When she entered, it was very small and very dirty so she decided she would clean up. After cleaning up she was tired and decided to go to bed. Meanwhile the seven dwarfs had finished working hard at a diamond mine and were on their way home. When they arrived, they were very surprised to see a light on in their cottage! They gathered their courage and entered, ready to defend their property against a potential thief or maybe even a ghost! When they entered the bedroom they saw a very pretty girl lying in one of the beds and gently woke her up. They all introduced themselves. After Snow White told them her horrible story about her step-mother, they let her stay. In the meantime, at the castle, a satisfied Queen interrogated her mirror again. "Who is the fairest now?' But the mirror still replied "Snow White" "Impossible!" she shouted. "My huntsman has brought me her heart." "The huntsman has deceived you. Snow White is alive and well in the cottage of the seven dwarfs." said the mirror. Enraged, the Queen took matters into her own hands and disguised herself as an ugly old woman and concocted an evil spell. When Snow White took a bite into one of her poisoned apples, she would fall into a deep sleep never to be awakened. The next day, the dwarfs were on their way to work leaving Snow White all alone. Suddenly an old woman appeared at one of the cottage's windows. She offered the princess an apple and told her it would make her dreams come true. Snow white took one bite of the apple and fell to the floor. But the birds and other animals had witnessed it and hurried off to warn the dwarfs. All seven of them rushed to save their beloved Snow White but it was too late. They spotted the Queen and ran after her. As she was trying to escape, she slipped off a cliff and plummeted to her doom. But the death of the Queen did not bring Snow White back. Beautiful even in death, the dwarfs decided to lay her in a glass coffin and keep eternal vigil by her side until the day the Prince returned The Prince had been looking for her. When he saw her laying in the coffin, he opened the lid, bent over and kissed her. She slowly opened her eyes and the Prince took her in his arms. Only true love's kiss could awaken the princess. The Prince carried her to his white horse and they rode off into the sunset toward his castle to live happily ever after.


The World of Theatre To help you understand more about theatre below are a list of theatrical terms and job titles alongside a brief description of what each is/does.

Assistant Stage Manager (ASM)- generally deals with props and will do certain cues during the show that are specifically to do with props, onstage effects etc.

Auditorium - the area in which you will be sitting to watch the performance. Choreographer - creates and rehearses the dance routines. Cloth - a backdrop scene painted on fabric. Costume Designer – designs the spectacular costumes for the actors to wear on stage. Director - In control of all aspects of the production. They develop the concept of the production, brief the designer and lighting designer, plot the actors moves, rehearse the actors, etc Fly - scenery which is raised into the roof (flown out) or lowered on the stage (flown in). The apparatus consists of a series of ropes and pulleys in the fly tower (a very high roof space) and they raise or lower the scenery by means of a counterweight system or by directly pulling on hemp lines. The men who operate the flies are called flymen and the area in which they work is called the fly floor or, quite simply, the flies. Follow Spot - a type of spotlight with an iris and a handle so that it can be used to follow a performer around the stage in a beam of light of exactly the right size. Traditionally called a "lime": hence the term "being in the limelight”! Footlights - a series of lights placed on the stage floor along the front of the stage. Lighting Designer - responsible for designing, focusing and plotting the lighting for a production. Musical Director - in control of the music in the production, under the control of the director. Rehearses singers and musicians, conducts the orchestra/band, and usually arranges the music too. Proscenium - the traditional picture frame type of stage, usually with a curtain. Proscenium Arch - the actual opening of a proscenium stage. Reprise - musical term: to repeat, in whole or part, a song which has already been sung in the show. Safety Curtain - a curtain of fireproofed material usually with a metal frame, which is covers the entire proscenium opening and acts as a firebreak between the stage and the auditorium. Set - the scenery for a particular show or individual scene. Set Designer - the person who designs the set for the production. Stage Manager - in charge of what happens on stage when the production is performed. Understudy – either an actor playing a small part, or an ASM, who has learned and rehearsed the part of one of the leading actors to take over from them in the event of illness etc. Wardrobe Mistress/Master - responsible for the making, repair and washing of all costumes. Wings - the sides of the stage, out of sight of the audience, where actors stand before making their entrance, and where props are kept, ready to be brought onto the stage.


Comprehension Exercise

Based on what you have just read in the All About Snow White and The World of Theatre sections answer the following questions. 1. Who originally wrote down the story of Snow White?

2. In the original version of the story how is the apple dislodged from Snow White’s throat?

3. In what year was the Disney film released?

4. How many Oscars did Walt Disney receive for the film of Snow White?

5. Where do the Seven Dwarfs work?

6. Who was supposed to kill Snow White?

7. What were the names of the dwarfs in the original story?

8. What is the job title of the person who creates the dances for a show?

9. What is the light called that follows performers around the stage?

10. What is the job of an understudy?

11. What is the term for repeating a song that has already been performed?

12. What are the wings?


Why is Snow White? One of the reasons that so many people love snow is that it coats everything in a clean, ‘pure’ white blanket. We even talk about snow in these terms - weathermen say that we'll be getting "some of the white stuff" and every December you're likely to hear the song ‘White Christmas’ over and over again. Snow wouldn't be snow if it wasn't white. But if you think about it, it seems weird that snow is white at all, since it's just a bunch of ice crystals stuck together. So where does it get its distinctive color? To understand where the whiteness comes from, we need to back up and look at why different things have different colors in the first place. Visible light is made up of many different frequencies of light. Our eyes detect different frequencies as different colors. Different objects have different colors because the particular particles (atoms and molecules) that make up the object have different vibration frequencies. Basically, the electrons of the particle will vibrate a certain amount in response to energy, depending on the frequency of the energy. In the case of light energy, the molecules and atoms absorb a certain amount of light energy depending on the frequency of the light, and then emit this absorbed energy as heat. This means that objects absorb certain frequencies of light more than others. A couple of different things can happen to the light frequencies that are not absorbed. In some material, when a particle re-emits the photons, they continue to pass through to the next particle. In this case, light travels all the way through the material, so the material is clear. In most solid material, the particles re-emit most of the unabsorbed photons out of the material, so no light, or very little light, passes through and the object is opaque. The color of an opaque object is just the combination of the light energy that the object's particles did not absorb. So, since snow is frozen water, and we all know that frozen water is clear, why does snow have a distinctive color? To understand this, we need to back up and look at an individual piece of ice. Ice is not transparent; it's actually translucent. This means that the light photons don't pass right through the material in a direct path -- the material's particles change the light's direction. This happens because the distances between some atoms in the ice's molecular structure are close to the height of light wavelengths, which means the light photons will interact with the structures. The result is that the light photon's path is altered and it exits the ice in a different direction than it entered the ice. Snow is a whole bunch of individual ice crystals arranged together. When a light photon enters a layer of snow, it goes through an ice crystal on the top, which changes its direction slightly and sends it on to a new ice crystal, which does the same thing. Basically, all the crystals bounce the light all around so that it comes right back out of the snow pile. It does the same thing to all the different light frequencies, so all colors of light are bounced back out. The ‘color’ of all the frequencies in the visible spectrum combined in equal measure is white, so this is the color we see in snow, while it is not the color we see in the individual ice crystals that form snow.


Story Telling Words

All story tellers, writers and authors use ‘describing words’ to make their writing more interesting, exciting and fun to read. What did you think of Snow White? Write 3 words here to describe her

1. ___________________________________________ 2. ___________________________________________ 3. ___________________________________________ What did you think of the Jester? Write 2 short sentences to describe him

1. _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ 2. _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ If were the Wicked Queen, use some words to describe how you would behave

_________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ If you were the Prince use some words to describe how you would behave

_________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________


Other Ideas for Written Activities

• Imagine you are one of the characters from the pantomime and write a diary from the point of view

of that character.

• Imagine how your favourite character will be spending Christmas.

• Write a short story about your own talking magic mirror.

• Reviews are very important to the producers, cast and creative team of a show as well as to the theatre where the show is playing. Try writing your own review of the pantomime. Some things you may wish to think about when writing your review: How much you enjoyed the show? Which characters you liked and why? Who your favourite actor was and why? Would you tell your friends to go a see the show?

• Write a poem based on a scenario from the show.

• Hangman – a great fun class activity. Using words relating to the show play a game of hangman on the blackboard.

• Ask 20 other people who saw the pantomime who their favourite character was and create a graph or bar chart showing the result.

• Make a postcard from a key part of the show. Design the front, and choose characters from the pantomime to write it from and to.

• Create Your Own Dwarf - All of the dwarfs in Snow White have their own unique name. Their name describes their character. For example, in the Disney version of Snow White there is a dwarf called Grumpy, because he is always grumpy. Another is called Sneezy because he is always sneezing. Think of what name you would like to give a dwarf. If you would like to you can then draw a picture of him/her.


Putting on a Show When thinking about putting on a show there are many things that we at Imagine need to take into account. Firstly we need a script – what is the show about? Who are our characters? What do they say and do? Then we need to think about how our characters will look and also what the stage will look like. On the subsequent pages you will find pictures of some of our fantastic costumes, and images of the amazing sets. You can use these for any of the following activities: Be a Costume Designer Split into small discussion groups and take a look at our costumes.

• What can you tell about the character from looking at their costume?

• How do you think the audience is meant to feel about each character? Give reasons for your answer, related to the costume.

• Now draw a costume for your favourite character from the pantomime. Be a Set Designer Take a look at our set models on the following page.

• Now produce a drawing of your own set.

• What materials would you use if you were to make this set for real? Create Your Own Pantomime The stories that our pantomimes are based on have been around for a long time. Why don’t you have a go and creating a new one?

• Think about what your pantomime would be about? Where is it set? Who are your main characters? (Usually pantomimes contain, amongst others, a heroine, a hero, a dame, a comedy sidekick and, the most important of all, a baddie!).

• Once you have thought about all these write a synopsis of your pantomime and then also write down a scene from it which contains three of your characters. Once this is done get into groups of three, cast your pantomimes and act them out! If you have a video camera then you could ask someone to film it and then watch yourself in performance!

• If you would like to why don’t you create a model theatre (perhaps use an old shoe box) and make finger puppets for your characters and act out your play in your new model theatre.


This is Cinderella’s kitchen This is Cinderella’s ballroom

This is a pantomime Outside the Village cloth This is outside the gates to the Beast’s Castle in Beauty and the Beast

This is Widow Twankey’s Laundry from The streets of London from Dick Whittington Aladdin

The Giant’s Castle from Jack and the Beanstalk The cave interior from Aladdin


This is a scene from Cinderella where the Ugly Sisters and Buttons Prince Charming–Traditionally are in the bathroom getting ready for the ball. Note the material is principal boys are played by

PVC that can be wiped clean, as this scene involves custard pies! women in male clothing

This is the dress Cinderella’s This is the ball gown the Fairy This is a dame costume from Mother left her magically creates for Cinderella Aladdin

This is a comic jester costume This is a Demon King costume This is the King Rat costume from Sleeping Beauty from Mother Goose from Dick Whittington


Questions and Points for Discussion in Class About the Pantomime

• What did you like best about the pantomime?

• What do you think the funniest part of the pantomime was?

• Who was your favorite character or person in the pantomime?

• What was the most exciting part of the pantomime?

• Have you read the fairy tale/seen the Disney film of Snow White? How different did you think the pantomime was? Which did you like best and why?

• Which bit of the pantomime didn’t you like? Why?

• What words would you use to describe the pantomime?

• What words would you use to describe the songs and music? About the Theatre

• What do you like about visiting the theatre?

• What don’t you like about visiting the theatre?

• What other things can you go and see at the theatre? What have you seen?

• Why is going to the theatre different from watching television? Issues That Arose From the Pantomime Referring to the pantomime discuss issues such as:

• Bullying

• Friendship

• Fear

• Bravery

• Love Get the children to think about examples of each of these from the panto and then ask them to also give examples of them from their own lives.


Ideas for Drama

Scenario 1 – Improvisation (pretending to be a Jester)

• Imagine you are in the court of the Wicked Queen, and your job is to make people laugh. Think about all the ways you can do this. Pantomime originally featured no words, and a clown called Grimaldi who ‘clowned’ around. Think of ways of making people laugh without saying anything.

• Below is a selection of jokes. The success of telling a good joke lies in the delivery. Make sure you know your joke and have practiced it a few times before you tell it! Try writing your own jokes or telling ones that you have heard or have told before. See how many people you can make laugh!

What did the elf use to make him taller? Elf raising flour. What did the traffic light say to the car? Don't look, I'm changing. How do you catch a squirrel? Climb up a tree and act like a

nut. Which soldiers smell of salt and pepper? Seasoned troopers. What do you call a nervous witch? A twitch. What do you call a girl with the Titanic on her head? Mandy lifeboats. Who was the first underwater spy? James Pond. What has webbed feet and fangs? Count Quackula. What dog smells of onions? A hot dog.

Scenario 2 – Mime (please note, the mining scene is not in the pantomime, but is well known from the Disney version) Mime is the second part of the word pantomime. A long time ago pantomimes were performed without any words. The actors told the story using their bodies and gestures.

• Get yourselves into groups of 3 or 4. Imagine that you are dwarfs, and you have had a busy day down the mine. One of you will need to carry the really heavy tools to the surface. Another will need to carry the precious diamonds that you have collected. Another will carry the lamp so that everyone can see their way out of the mine and the final person will carry all the lunch boxes and drinks cartons, as well as all the coats and mining helmets - But dwarfs are really messy and they have left everything all over the place!

• Work together as a team to pick up different items from around the room. Then pass the items you have picked up to the relevant person! Once you have picked everything up, carry all the items to the surface, being careful not to drop any on the way out! If you do drop anything, remember the noise it makes when it lands will echo around the mine.

• Once you are at the surface, swap roles or items and prepare yourselves for a day at work. Check you have all your tools, your lunch and plenty of oil for your lamps. Once you are ready to go, head back down into the mine, watching your step as you go, as it is very wobbly under foot. The diamond carrier will now need to make sure there are empty baskets to put the new diamonds in.

• Repeat until everyone has had a go at carrying each of the different items.


Create a Storyboard When Disney created the animated film of Snow White they started off by creating a storyboard, a series of pictures and text that tell the story. Using the template below either make a storyboard based on the pantomime of Snow White or create your own story. Use the boxes to draw a picture and then write your story in the space underneath the box.


The Wicked Queen’s Noughts and Crosses This is a fun game that can be adapted to whatever area of maths, or indeed any other subject, you are currently studying with your students.

• Begin by dividing the students into 2 teams – Team Dolly and Team Jester. Team Dolly are the X’s and Team Jester are the O’s.

• Draw a noughts and crosses grid on the board as a reference. Also arrange 9 chairs in the front of the room 3x3.

• Player 1 on Team Dolly is given a question of your choosing. They may ask for assistance from their team but the final answer comes from Player 1. If it is correct they may sit in any seat in the grid and write the X on the board to help students visualize it.

• Player 1 in Team Jester then has a question to answer and so on.

• The team may help their team mate choose the best seat to get 3 in a row.


Facts About Apples

• Apples come in all shades of reds, greens, yellows.

• 7500 varieties of apples are grown throughout the world.

• A medium apple is about 80 calories.

• Apples are a great source of the fibre pectin. One apple has five grams of fibre.

• Apple trees take four to five years to produce their first fruit.

• Apple varieties range in size from a little larger than a cherry to as large as a grapefruit.

• In Europe, France, Italy and Germany are the leading apple producing countries.

• Apples harvested from an average tree can fill 20 boxes that weigh 42 pounds each.

• Americans eat 19.6 pounds or about 65 fresh apples every year.

• 25 percent of an apple's volume is air. That is why they float.

• The largest apple picked weighed three pounds.

• Charred apples have been found in prehistoric dwellings in Switzerland.

• Some apple trees will grown over forty feet high and live over a hundred years.

• It takes the energy from 50 leaves to produce one apple.

• Apples are the second most valuable fruit grown in the United States. Oranges are first.

• Apples have five seed pockets or carpels. Each pocket contains seeds. The number of seeds per carpel is determined by the vigor and health of the plant. Different varieties of apples will have different number of seeds.

• World's top apple producers are China, United States, Turkey, Poland and Italy.

• America's longest-lived apple tree was reportedly planted in 1647 by Peter Stuyvesant in his Manhattan orchard and was still bearing fruit when a derailed train struck it in 1866.

• Archeologists have found evidence that humans have been enjoying apples since at least 6500 B.C.

• The world's largest apple peel was created by Kathy Wafler Madison on October 16, 1976, in Rochester, NY. It was 172 feet, 4 inches long. (She was 16 years old at the time and grew up to be a sales manager for an apple tree nursery.)

• It takes about 36 apples to create one gallon of apple cider.

• The old saying, “an apple a day, keeps the doctor away”. This saying comes from an old English adage, “To eat an apple before going to bed, will make the doctor beg his bread.”

• Don't peel your apple. Two-thirds of the fibre and lots of antioxidants are found in the peel. Antioxidants help to reduce damage to cells, which can trigger some diseases.


Some Simple Games

Apple Bobbing Take a large bowl of water (a washing up bowl is good) and in it place a number of apples. Players now have to try to catch one of the apples using only their teeth. The hands must remain behind the back at all times. A variation is to hang the apples from strings so that they swing about and refuse to be caught. The person who catches an apple in the quickest time is the winner. Reflections A key part of the story of Snow White is a mirror. When you look in a mirror, things look ‘backwards’. By this we mean that they reflect in reverse. Why don’t you try writing the word ‘HELLO’ in capital letters. Then hold it in front of the mirror. What has happened to it? Can you read it in reverse? Here are some other words to try writing down and then holding up to the mirror (write them in capital letters!):

• YOUR NAME

• NOON

• SNOW Can you think of any words that you can read backwards and forwards? Are there any words that sound really silly when you read them backwards? A question to try and answer – why is ‘AMBULANCE’ written in reverse on the front of an

Ambulance? Answer – because drivers see it through their rear view mirror. Through a

mirror it comes out in reverse, and therefore is the right way round! Mirrors Mirrors are something we use every day. Can you think of a list of things mirrors are used for? Here’s a couple to get you started

• To see traffic behind when driving a car

• For looking into


Making Toffee Apples A Simple Recipe

Make sure you get a grown up to help, as hot caramel can burn your skin if you are not careful. Preparation time: 30 minutes Serves: 5 Ingredients

• 5 medium-sized dessert apples

• 50g soft caramel sweets

• 2 tbsp water

• 5 wooden skewers

• Some greaseproof paper

• A saucepan with a little water in the bottom (about ¼ full)

• A glass bowl that fits into the saucepan Preparation

1 Wash and thoroughly dry the apples, and stick a wooden skewer through the stem end.

2 Slowly heat the caramel sweets in a glass bowl, placed in a saucepan with some water in until melted and smooth. Dip the apples in the toffee and swirl until completely coated.

3 Lay on greaseproof paper or stand upright in a flower holder then place in the fridge to harden.


Dame Dolly’s Word Search Can you find the 12 hidden words?

B E A U T I F U L N B C V C

A S P F G H J U Y R E H W X

W D P F Y E K O I O I A P O

D F L Y U L R R R D E R B N

F G E G A T T O C W Q M N K

H F D S A S I U Y T R I W Q

Z X C D W A R F P L M N T M

D P O I U C Y P T R E G W U

E L K J H G F R D S A I U D

K A S D F G H I Y G V D O D

C A S Q U E E N M M C F S L

I D F T H A F C N X M K H E

W H I T E I U E O I W O N S

• Apple

• Beautiful

• Castle

• Charming

• Cottage

• Dwarf

• Muddles

• Prince

• Queen

• Snow

• White

• Wicked


Decorate an Apple for the Foyer Orchard!

This year the theatre wants to decorate the foyer with apples. We are asking for children to cut out an apple (template overleaf). Then stick your apple onto some nice stiff card Then decorate away – as bright, creative and imaginative as possible please and if you wish, you can decorate both sides! We hope to receive enough ‘entries’ to allow us turn the theatre foyer into an apple orchard! So get creating and have fun! The more fun you have, the brighter the foyer will look. The best one chosen by the pantomime team will win a prize for his or her school. Entries received by 14th November 2016 will be displayed in the theatre foyer during the pantomime run. Please bring entries to the theatre box office.

Don’t forget to put each child’s name, age and school somewhere really clearly on the apple so we know who decorated it (then make sure they don’t decorate over it!) Here’s the information we need for each entry. THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR ENTRIES

Name: ________________________________

Age: ________________________________

School: ________________________________


Make a Paper Snowflake

You will need:

A square piece of paper

Scissors

Colouring pencils, felt tips, glitter etc to decorate

1. To make a square piece of paper, if you don't already have one, take a piece of printer paper and diagonally fold one of the short edges to line up with one of the long edges. Trim the extra strip of paper that doesn't make up one of the two layers of the folded portion.

2. Fold the square piece of paper in half diagonally to form a triangle. Fold the paper in half diagonally again. Fold the paper in half diagonally one last time.

3. Round the open end of the folded piece of paper so it looks like an eighth of a circle using your scissors. You are rounding the edge of the paper opposite the point.

4. Cut different shapes out of the two long edges of the piece without cutting all the way across the paper. Cut shapes such as half hearts, triangles, half circles and squares from the edges.

5. Unfold the piece of paper to reveal the snowflake.

6. Decorate your snowflake

If you wish to hang your snowflake then use a hole punch to make a whole in the top of the snowflake and thread some string through it.


Answers

Comprehension Exercise 1, Brothers Grimm; 2, she is on a cart which hits a pothole and dislodges the apple from her throat; 3, 1937; 8, 1 for Walt and 1 for each of the dwarfs!; 5 a diamond mine; 6, the huntsman; 7, they didn’t have any; 8, choreographer; 9, follow spot; 10, to learn the role of another actor in case he/she is off sick; 11, reprise; 12, the area at the side of the stage where actors wait to come on and where props are kept ready.

Dame Dolly’s Word Search

B E A U T I F U L C

P H

P E A

L L R

E G A T T O C M

S I

D W A R F N M

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