Alice in Wonderland – Full length feature. The animation was created by Cork Institution of Technology, Early Years Education year 1 and Montessori year 3 students. The Play was performed by Early Years Education 1 students. The Art exhibition was done by Early Years Education Year 3 students.
Warm-ups Games
17 May
Warm-ups Games
Warm-ups games are very important and beneficial for any drama class – no matter what age:
*They are fun and enjoyable.
*They help the children get to know one another.
*They help children focus on the drama class that follows the warm-up.
*They help the children limber-up.
*They help shy children to get involved in the group.
*They help children to use their imagination and creativity.
*They promote trust among the children.
Game: Orders
- Difficulty rating: **
- Minimum number of participants: 6
- Resources needed: Clear space
- Instructions: This warm-up game helps children to learn how to work as a team. The leader tells everyone to get into a straight line and not to make a sound or move their mouths throughout the game; they can only communicate through the use of non-verbal body language.
- When the instructions have been given, the leader asks the group to get in a straight line in some order, e.g. the leader can ask them to line-up from the oldest to the youngest. If too many children were born in the same month, they can progress to finding out what day they were born and line-up in that order; or they can get in order according to height, alphabetically by first names, or if any have the same first names, they can get in line alphabetically by their surnames.
- They have to complete the task communicating through non-verbal language such as pointing, miming etc. When the line is completed the leader asks each child to tell him/her their name or age. Then they can see if they managed to communicate their message through non-verbal language. This can take some time and a lot of concentration. It is also a good way for the leader and the class to learn each other’s names.
Game: Crossing the circle
- Difficulty rating: *
- Minimum number of participants: 6
- Resources needed: Clear space
- Instructions: The children stand in a circle and the leader gives everyone a number from 1 to 3. Then the leader tells all the 1s to exchange places by crossing the circle; and then all the 2s to cross the circle and so on. When the children understand what to do, the leader calls out different ways for them to walk across the circle:
- Like a toddler
- Like a frail old man
- Like a lion
- Like a mouse
- Like a roller blade
- Like a ballerina
- Like Justin Timberlake/Justin Bieber
- Like a rock star
- Like a princess
- Like Superman
- Like a rally car
Game: Prisoner
- Difficulty rating: *
- Minimum number of participants: 4
- Resources needed: A large space, chairs
- Instructions: Divide the group into pairs. One is the prisoner and the other is the jailer. All the prisoners sit in chairs in a circle while all the jailers stand behind their prisoner with their backs to the chairs. The leader sits in the circle with the prisoners, but does not have a jailer. When the leader shouts a prisoner’s name, they must change places with another prisoner as quickly as possible. However, if the jailer turns around fast enough and taps the prisoner on the shoulder, the prisoner is caught and can’t move. The leader then calls out someone else’s name. This is an excellent warm-up game, but it also helps with reflexes and listening skills.
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Alice in Wonderland – A script.
13 May
On the 7th May 2013 in the Rory Gallagher theatre at the Cork Institute of Technology, Early Years Education students performed Alice in Wonderland. The following is the script they used which is adapted from the book by Lewis Carroll.
Alice in Wonderland
Characters: Alice, Lorina, White Rabbit, Key, Caterpillar, The Pigeon, Fish Footman, Frog Footman, Duchess, Cook, Cheshire Cat, March Hare, Mad Hatter, Dormouse, Two, Seven, Five. King, Queen, Knave, Jury.
Scene 1: Under the tree in her garden.
(Curtain closed, Alice and her sister Lorina are sitting on the steps in front of the stage. Lorina is reading a book)
Alice Lorina, I am bored, there is nothing to do.
Lorina: It is such a lovely day why don’t you sit with me under the tree and read your book.
Alice My book is silly. It all about a rabbit that talks. I mean you have heard of a talking rabbit.
Lorina: (Yawns and stretches) I think I will go for a snooze. (She falls asleep and Alice tries to read her book).
(Suddenly from the back of the theatre comes a White Rabbit, he is in a panic and looking at his watch)
White Rabbit I’m late, I’m late, I’m late for a very important date.
(He runs passed Alice, through the curtains and on to the stage out of sight.)
Alice Boys and girls, did I just see a talking White Rabbit? He has just run down a rabbit hole.
Alice Do you think I should follow him down them the rabbit hole?
Alice Mr White Rabbit, please wait for me. (She runs after the White Rabbit.)
Scene 2: The rabbit hole/the curious hallway
(She stands on the stage and it is dark, and she starts to fall into the rabbit hole)
Alice Oh my goodness. I’m falling, I’m falling. If I don’t stop I will end up near the centre of earth. I might even end up in Australia where everything is upside down and the wrong way around. Somebody help me.
(She falls and then stops suddenly and she is in a curious hall with a door with a small locked door.)
Alice What a curious place this is. I see a really beautiful garden through the key hole. The door is too small how will I get in?
Key: Here use me to open the door.
Alice I can’t because the door is too small for me to fit in.
Key: Drink this. (The key gives Alice a bottle that says drink me.)
Alice I’m shrinking. (Alice is too small to get through the door.) I will never get through the door now. I’m too small.
Key: Never fear. Eat this piece of cake and you will grow bigger.
Alice (She takes a bite out of the cake.) Curiouser and curiouser! Now I’m opening out like the largest telescope that ever was. Goodbye, feet! Oh, my poor little feet, I wonder who will put on your shoes and stockings for you now, dears? I’m sure I shan’t be able! I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble myself about you: you must manage the best way you can… Oh dear, what nonsense I’m talking!
White Rabbit: (entering on the run, carrying a fan and some gloves) Oh! The Duchess, the Duchess! Oh! Won’t she be savage if I’ve kept her waiting!
Alice If you please, sir –
White Rabbit: Ahhhh! (He drops the fan and gloves and hightails it offstage.)
Alice: (calling to White Rabbit) Wait!! (Picks up the gloves and fan)
Alice Curiouser and curiouser, I’m growing smaller again and now I can get through the garden door.
Scene 3 – The Magical Garden
Caterpillar: Who are YOU?
Alice: I – I hardly know, sir, just at present – at least I know who I was when I got up this morning but I think I must have been changed several times since then.
Caterpillar: What do you mean? Explain yourself!
Alice: I can’t explain MYSELF, I’m afraid, sir because I’m not myself, you see.
Caterpillar: I don’t see.
Alice: I’m afraid I can’t put it more clearly, for I don’t understand it myself.
Caterpillar: Who are you?
Alice: I think you ought to tell me who YOU are, first.
Caterpillar: Why? (Alice stamps the ground and walks away) Come back! I’ve something important to say! (Alice returns) Keep your temper.
Alice: Is that all?
Caterpillar: No. So you think you’re changed, do you?
Alice: I’m afraid I am, sir, I can’t remember things as I used to. I can’t keep the same size.
Caterpillar: What size do you want to be?
Alice: Oh, I’m not particular as to size; only one doesn’t like changing so often, you know.
Caterpillar: Are you content now?
Alice: Well, I should like to be a LITTLE larger, sir, if you wouldn’t mind. Three inches is such an awful height to be.
Caterpillar: It is a very good height indeed!
Alice: But I’m not used to it!
Caterpillar: One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.
Alice: One side of WHAT? The other side of WHAT?
Caterpillar: Of the mushroom.
(The Caterpillar gives Alice the mushroom and exits.)
Alice: And now which is which? (She takes a bite) Whoa!!!!!
The Pigeon enters.
Pigeon: (he pecks ALICE in the head) Serpent!
Alice: I’m not a Serpent! Let me alone!
Pigeon: (he pecks her again) Serpent I say again!
Alice: I haven’t the least idea what you’re talking about.
Pigeon: As if it wasn’t trouble enough hatching the eggs but I must be on the lookout for serpents night and day. I haven’t had a wink of sleep.
Alice: I’m sorry you’ve been annoyed.
Pigeon: And just as I’d taken to the highest tree in the wood and just as I was thinking I should be free of them at last, they must needs come wriggling down from the sky! SERPENT! (attacks Alice)
Alice: I am not a Serpent, I tell you! I’m a… I’m a…
Pigeon: Well! What are you? I can see you’re trying to invent something.
Alice: I’m a little girl.
Pigeon: A likely story. I’ve seen a good many little girls in my time, but never one with such a neck as yours. No, no, you’re a serpent; and there’s no use denying it. I suppose you’ll be telling me next that you’ve never tasted an egg.
Alice: I have, but little girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents you know.
Pigeon: I don’t believe it. You’re looking for eggs and what does it matter to me whether you’re a little girl or a serpent?
Alice: It matters a good deal to me! But I’m not looking for eggs and if I was I shouldn’t want yours.
Pigeon: Well, be off with you then. Pigeon pushes Alice and she falls.
Alice (picks up the mushroom) The mushroom, I almost forgot and grows back to her normal size.
Scene 4: Outside the Duchess’s palace
ALICE I’ve got back to my right size: I wonder? (sees the door) Whoever lives there?
Frog Footman: (holding an invitation out the Fish Footman) For the Duchess. An invitation from the Queen to play croquet.
Fish Footman: Thank you. There’s no sort of use in knocking, and that is for two reasons. First, because I’m on the same side of the door as you are. Secondly, because they’re making such a noise inside, no one could possibly hear you.
Alice: How am I to get in?
Frog Footman: There might be some sense in your knocking, if we had the door between us. For instance, if you were INSIDE, you might knock, and I could let you out, you know.
Alice: How am I to get in?
Fish Footman: I shall sit here till tomorrow or next day maybe… I shall sit here, on and off, for days and days.
Alice: But what am I to do?
Frog Footman: Anything you like? (the door opens and Alice grabs the invitation runs through)
Inside the Duchess’s Place.
Cook is throwing plates and cups around.
Alice: Where is the Duchess?
Cook: She is over there.
Duchess: Cook, what are you doing?
Cook: I making soup for lunch.
Duchess; Who are you? And who let you in
Alice: I’m Alice. The fish and frog footman. Well they didn’t stop me.
Duchess: I have to get rid of them. Cook remind me to get of rid of the fish and frog footman.
Cook: I was planning on making fish/frog stew tomorrow so we needed to get new footman anyway.
Alice: I have an invitation from the queen.
Duchess: (Looks at invitation) she wants me to go to the croquet game.
Alice: Are you going?
Duchess: I don’t know she usually sends me to the prison tower when I beat her.
Alice: She is a sore loser, then?
Duchess: I must get ready. Cook come and help me. (Both leave the stage.)
(Alice sees a Cheshire cat)
Alice: Why are you grinning?
Cheshire cat: Cheshire cats always smile.
Alice: Can you please tell me where I go from here?
Cheshire Cat: Well that depends where you want to go.
Alice: I don’t mind.
Cheshire Cat: Then, it doesn’t matter where you go?
Alice: Well, what sorts of people live in this direction? (points to left)
Cheshire cat: In the that direction lives the hatter and in that direction lives the March Hare. Both of them are mad.
Alice: I don’t want to meet mad people.
Cat: Oh dear! Don’t you know? We are all mad here. You must be mad.
Alice: How do you know?
Cat: You must be or else you wouldn’t have come here. Are you going to play croquet with the queen?
Alice: I would like to but I haven’t been invited.
Cat: Well, I’ll see you there.
Alice: I’ve seen hatters before. The March Hare will be much the most interesting, and perhaps as this is May it won’t be raving mad – at least not as mad as it was in March.
Scene 6: The Tea party
Hare, Hatter, Dormouse: Twinkle, twinkle little bat, How I wonder what you are at. (sings twice.)
(Alice tries to join them but they start yelling at her.)
Hare, Hatter, Dormouse: No room, No room.
Alice: There is plenty of room.
March Hare: Have some wine?
Alice: I don’t see any wine.
March Hare: That is because there isn’t any. (All laugh).
Alice: Well it wasn’t very nice of you to offer.
March Hare: Well it wasn’t very nice of you to sit down without being invited.
Alice: It isn’t your table it is laid for a great deal more than three.
Hatter: Your hair wants cutting.
Alice: Keep your personal remarks to yourself.
Hatter: The butter has crumbs in it.
March Hare: Well you shouldn’t have put your bread knife in it.
Alice: What a funny watch! It tells the day of the month, and doesn’t tell what o’clock it is!
Hatter: Why should it? Does YOUR watch tell you what year it is?
Alice: Of course not, but that’s because it stays the same year for such a long time together.
Hatter: Which is just the case with MINE.
Alice: I don’t quite understand you.
Hatter: The Dormouse is asleep again.
Alice: Oh what a waste of time. Wake up Dormouse!
Hatter: If you knew Time as well as I do, you wouldn’t talk about wasting IT. It’s a HIM.
Alice: I don’t know what you mean.
Hatter: Of course you don’t! I dare say you never even spoke to Time!
Alice: Perhaps not, but I know I have to beat time when I learn music.
Alice: Ah! That accounts for it, he won’t stand beating. Now, if you only kept on good terms with him, he’d do almost anything you liked with the clock. For instance, suppose it were nine o’clock in the morning, just time to begin lessons: you’d only have to whisper a hint to Time, and round goes the clock in a twinkling! Half-past one, time for Lunch!
March Hare: I only wish it was.
Alice: That would be grand, certainly, but then – I wouldn’t be hungry for it, you know.
Alice: Is that the way YOU manage?
Hatter: Not I! We quarreled last March – just before HE went mad, you know – it was at the great concert given by the Queen of Hearts, and I had to sing, “Twinkle, twinkle, little bat! How I wonder what you’re at!” You know the song, perhaps?
ALICE: I’ve heard something like it.
Hatter: It goes on, you know, in this way: – “Up above the world you fly, like a tea-tray in the sky. Twinkle, twinkle –”
Dormouse: (sleepily) Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky. Twinkle, twinkle –”
Hatter: Well I hardly finished when the queen jumped up and said “he is murdering time, off with his head.
Alice The queen doesn’t sound very nice.
Hatter: Since then he won’t do a thing I ask. It is always six o’clock.
Alice is that why all the tea things are out?
Hatter: We never get a chance to wash up.
March Hare: I think Alice should tell us a story.
Alice I don’t have a story to tell.
March Hare: Dormouse, tell us a story.
Dormouse: Ok, Once upon a time there were three sisters who lived in the bottom of a well.
Alice: What did they live on?
Dormouse: Treacle.
Alice They must have been very ill.
Dormouse: Yes, they were very ill.
March Hare: Have some more tea, Alice.
Alice: How can I have more when I hadn’t any to begin with?
March Hare: Well, how can you have less, then?
Alice: Why did they live in the bottom of the well?
Dormouse: Because it was treacle well.
Alice: there is no such thing.
Dormouse: Stop interrupting.
Mad Hatter: I need a new cup, lets all move down a place.
Alice: This is the stupidest tea party I was ever at in my life.
Hatter, hare, dormouse: Shrug their shoulders and run off singing twinkle twinkle little bat.
(suddenly a rose tree appears)
3 playing cards of hearts are painting it.
Two of hearts: Be careful five you are splashing paint all over me.
Five: I can’t help it, seven pushed me.
Seven: No I didn’t, why do I always get the blame.
Alice: What is going on here?
Seven: Oh my! You scared us. I nearly lost a year of my life. I nearly became six again.
Two: Well you see, we planted a white rose bush and the queen wanted a red one. So we are trying to change before she turns up.
Five: Red Alert! Red Alert! The queen is coming.
They all bow as the queen inspects the rose bush. She notices Alice.
Queen: Who is this?
Cards: We have no idea.
Queen: Well off with her head.
King: But she is only a child.
Queen: Well do you play croquet.
Alice: Why, yes.
Queen: Well come on then.
(King gives Alice a Flamingo.)
Alice: But this is a flamingo and the balls are hedgehogs.
King: Well how else will we play?
The croquet game
Alice hits the ball and misses the White Rabbit.
White Rabbit: It is a fine day for a game of croquet.
Alice: Where is the Duchess?
White Rabbit She has been sent to the high tower. She is to be executed.
Alice Why?
White Rabbit: because she boxed the queen’s ears.
Alice starts to laugh
White Rabbit: Hush, she will hear you.
Queen: Get to your places, off with their heads. Off with their heads.
Cheshire Cat: How are you getting on?
Alice: Not very well, they are not playing fairly.
Cat: How do you like the queen?
Alice She is not very nice. Is she?
There is a fanfare.
White Rabbit Quick the trial is about to start.
The trial
The king and queen sit on their throne. The knave kneels before them.
Knave: I am not guilty. I didn’t do it.
King: Ace read the charges.
Ace: The Queen of Hearts
She made some tarts,
All on a summer’s day;
The Knave of Hearts
He stole those tarts.
King: Call the first witness.
Hatter: I haven’t finished my tea.
King: Next witness. Give your evidence.
Cook: The tarts are made of treacle.
King: Call the next witness.
Ace: The next witness is Alice.
King: What do you know of this business?
Alice:Nothing.
King: Well all the evidence points to knave being guilty.
Alice: No it doesn’t. It proves nothing of the sort.
Queen: Hold your tongue.
Alice No I won’t. You are all nothing but a pack of cards.
Jury: Off with her head.
(Everyone rushes for Alice and the lights go off. Curtains close and Alice comes outside and sits in the steps. She is sleeping)
Lorina: Alice, Wake up, wake up it is time to go home for tea. We are having treacle tart tonight.
Alice :(confused) it must have been a dream after all.
Movement Games
1 AprMovement Games
Movement is about expressing yourself physically. The movement games below improve a child’s flexibility, co-ordination, balance and control. The games are also an excellent way for children to explore body language, by practising and observing, and also to learn how to walk like a specific character.
Mime is an integral part of Drama and the activities in this section enable the children to improve their mime skills. Children often find mine easier because they don’t have to speak.
Game: Movement sequences
Difficulty rating: *
Minimum number of participants: 2
Resources needed: Large space
Instructions: The leader talks to the children about different ways of moving. Ask them to call out different ways people move.
Examples to get you started include:
o walking
o running
o crawling
o rolling
o hopping
o skipping
o jumping
o leaping
o tiptoeing
o tumbling
o turning
o galloping
o twirling
o spinning
o walking sideways
o walking backwards
The children will come up with many more. When they have moved in all the different ways, the leader calls out movement sequences such as:
o walk – jump – twirl – tumble
o spin – hop – skip – gallop
Give the children a chance to be the leader and to call out their own movement sequences.
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The Three Billy Goats Gruff- a play for children
15 Feb
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Characters: Three storyteller, the Smallest Billy Goat, the Middle- Sized Billy Goat and the Biggest Billy Goat and the Troll.
(Stage directions: The three billy goats are happily playing with each other and the three storytellers are on the left side of the stage.)
Storyteller 1: Once upon a time there lived three billy goats gruff.
Storyteller 2: They spent every winter in a barn that kept them nice and warm.
Storyteller 3: But when the summer came they like to trippety trip over the bridge to the beautiful green meadow on the other side of the river.
Smallest Billy Goat: I’m really hungry. I think I will cross the bridge to eat some lovely green grass in the meadow.
Storyteller 1: What the billy goats didn’t know was that under the bridge there lived a really ugly troll.
Storyteller 2: The troll was nasty and horrible.
Storyteller 3: Nobody crossed the Bridge without the troll’s permission and he never gave permission.
Smallest Billy Goat: I can’t wait to get to the meadow. (He goes trippety trip on the bridge but half way over out pops the troll.)
Troll: Who is that trippety tripping over my bridge?
Smallest Billy Goat: Oh, it’s only me. Please let me pass. I only want to go to the meadow to eat some sweet grass.
Troll: Oh no you are not. I’m going to eat you.
Smallest Billy Goat: Oh, no, please, Mr. Troll, I m only the smallest Billy Goat Gruff. I’m much too tiny for you to eat, and I wouldn’t taste very good. Why don t you wait for my brother, the middle-sized Billy Goat? He is much bigger than I am and would be much more tasty.
Troll: Well, I suppose I could wait.
Middle-Sized Billy Goat: I think I will join my brother on the meadow and eat some lovely lush grass. (He goes trippety trip on the bridge but half way over out pops the troll.)
Troll: Who is that trippety tripping over my bridge?
Smallest Billy Goat: Oh it’s only me. Please let me pass. I only want to go to the meadow to eat some sweet grass.
Troll: Oh no, you are not. I’m going to eat you.
Middle-Sized Billy Goat: Oh, no, please, Mr. Troll, I m only the middle-sized Billy Goat Gruff. I’m much too tiny for you to eat, and I wouldn’t taste very good. Why don t you wait for my brother, the third Billy Goat? He is much bigger than I am and would be much more tasty.
Troll: Well, I suppose I could wait.
Biggest Billy Goat: I am all alone here I think I will join my brothers in the meadow and get some nice sweet grass to eat.
(He goes trippety trip on the bridge but half way over out pops the troll.)
Troll: Who is that trippety tripping over my bridge?
Biggest Billy Goat: Oh it only me. Please let me pass. I only want to go to the meadow to eat some sweet grass.
Troll: Oh no you are not. I’m going to eat you.
Biggest Billy Goat: That’s what you think!
Storyteller 1: He lowered his horns, galloped along the bridge and butted the ugly troll. Up, up, up, went the troll into the air…
Storyteller 2: then down, down, down into the rushing river below. He disappeared below the swirling waters.
Biggest Billy Goat: That taught him a lesson.
Storyteller 3: He continued across the bridge and met with his brothers and they ate grass and played for the rest of summer. (The three Billy Goats are playing with each other.)
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The Lion and the Mouse – five minute play
7 Jan
The Lion and the Mouse
Characters: Three Storytellers, Lion, Mouse, Elephants, Giraffes, Snake/s, Owls. You can have as many elephants, giraffes, snakes and owls as you want.
(Stage Directions: all the animals are in a semi-circle on the stage; they are grouped according to their animal type. Storytellers can be placed on the right or the left of the stage.)
Storyteller 1: One hot day a lion was asleep in a cave. (Lion is sleeping in the centre of the stage.)
Storyteller 2: Suddenly a little mouse ran over his paw. (Mouse comes scampering out quickly and touches the Lion’s paw.)
Storyteller 3: The lion woke up with a loud roar. He grabbed the mouse with his paw and said … (Lion wakes up and grabs the mouse.)
Lion: I’m going to kill you and eat you up. (Lion roars loudly.)
Mouse: Squeak, Squeak! Please, Mr. Lion, Please don’t eat me. Some day I will help you.
Lion: Ha, Ha, Ha! You, help me! Don’t make me laugh, but I’m not that hungry so I will let you go. (Lion pushes the mouse away.)
Storyteller 1: The lion laughed and laughed and the mouse ran home.
Storyteller 2: A few days later the lion was out in the jungle.
Lion: I think I will scare my friends. I am very scary because I’m King of the Jungle. (He goes to each group of animals and roars at them. All the animals are scared and move away from him.)
Storyteller 3: Suddenly the lion got caught in a trap and said… (He is in the centre of stage when he falls to his knees.)
Lion: Oh dear, how will I get out of here? (Lion looks around the stage desperately.)
Storyteller 1: After a while he heard some elephants. (Elephants move from the semi-circle and they circle the lion. They must make sure the audience can see their faces.)
Lion: Elephants, elephants, please help me.
Elephants: Oh No! We will not help you. (Elephants trundle off back to the other animals.)
Storyteller 2: Then a few giraffes passed by. He cried … (Giraffes leave the semi-circle and move behind the lion.)
Lion: Giraffes, Giraffes, please help me. (Lion looks up at the giraffes.)
Giraffes: Oh no, we will not help you. (Giraffes go back to their place in the semi-circle.)
Storyteller 3: The lion grew cold and hungry (the lion shivers and rubs his stomach) and began to think he would never get home to his nice, warm cave. Then he heard the hissing of snakes. (Snake(s) moves towards the centre of the stage near the lion.)
Lion: Snakes, snakes, please help me. (The lion looks up at the snakes.)
Snakes: Ssssssssss, oh no we will not help you, sssssssssssssssss. (Snakes go back to the semi-circle.)
Storyteller 1: As night came the lion began to cry.
Lion: Boo hoo, I am stuck in this trap and none of my friends will help me.
Storyteller 2: Then he heard some owls hooting in the trees. (Owls move centre stage, towards the lion.)
Lion: Owls, Owls, please help me. (Lion looks up at the owls.)
Owls: Tu Whit, Tu Whoo, owls, owls, we will not help youuuuuuuuuuu. (Owls go back to the semi-circle.)
Storyteller 3: The lion was very sad. (Lion starts crying.) He didn’t know what to do. Then he heard the squeaking of a mouse.
Mouse: Squeak, squeak! Why are you crying Mr. Lion? (Mouse comes from behind the other animals.)
Lion: I’m stuck in this trap and nobody will help me.
Mouse: I will help you.
Storyteller 1: The mouse began to bite through the rope and at last the lion was free.
Lion: I’m free, I’m free! I never thought you could help me because you are too small.
Storyteller 2: From then on the lion and the mouse were very good friends.
Storyteller 3: The lesson of the story is…
Storyteller 1: …bigger is not always better!
(Mouse hugs the Lion)
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