The World's Largest Collection of Drama Activities for Kids!

If you are looking for new drama activities, lesson plans, scripts, curriculum, and a huge collection of theatre games all in one place, you’ve found it!

Are you new to teaching drama? drama-activities-for-children

Drama Notebook can help you teach like an expert overnight
–with or without a theatre background.

  • Learn exactly how to structure your drama lessons.
  • Save planning time with finished drama lesson plans.
  • Watch videos of drama activities in action.
  • Feel confident by using classroom-tested proven material.
  • Stop worrying about what you are going to do…
  • Start focusing on how much fun you are going to have!

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Drama Notebook is overflowing with original, creative
drama activities that you won’t find anywhere else.

  • Feel excited about teaching drama again.
  • Bring more energy and creative ideas into your class than ever before.
  • Enjoy new drama lessons and activities every month.
  • Stop feeling so isolated…
  • And start feeling supported for all the amazing work you do!

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You can spend countless hours searching the internet for drama activities for children and teens, only to find broken links or sites that feature a handful of drama games. You can spend hundreds on books and thousands on workshops and training. But if you are looking for a vast amount of drama curriculum, and lesson plans that are easy to use right away, you’ve found it!

All of the classic drama games are here, but more importantly, the site is packed with original, meaningful drama activities that will have you excited about teaching your students. Check out the drama curriculum menu! One section of this site contains over 400 drama games alone! There are also fifty fun drama games on video that can help you teach drama like an expert overnight.

Register for a risk-free trial of Drama Notebook today. If, for any reason, the site does not exceed your expectations, simply send us a note and request a refund.

 Membership is only $9.95 a month, but will be soon be going up.

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Immediately gain access to over 2,500 pages of well-organized drama activities, lesson plans, scripts, videos for ages 5-18. With Drama Notebook, you can dramatically reduce your lesson planning time while delivering fresh, innovative lessons to your students.

Membership is only $9.95 a month, but will be going up soon!

Join for as long as you are teaching and suspend or cancel your membership when you are done. Start a risk-free trial and see for yourself how the materials and ideas in Drama Notebook can inspire you to look forward to teaching drama every day!

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Virtually eliminate your planning time with our themed drama lesson plans for elementary students.

• Perfect for classroom or after-school or camp use.
• Classroom tested in over 250 locations.
• 140-150 pages in each lesson plan.

Every lesson plan includes:

• 9-12 sessions completely planned for you
• Easy guide to adapting material to fit fewer or more sessions
• Enough material to fill even a week-long camp
• Custom themed activities your kids will love
• Shorter royalty-free scripts with flexible casts
• Stage diagrams and instructions
• Printable homework activities
• And much more!

Finished lesson plans for middle school and high school coming soon…

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  • If you teach theatre to children, Drama Notebook is a must have resource. Janea and her team have created the best online teaching tool for theatre I have found. Drama Notebook made me a better teacher and made lesson planning so much more creative than I could have done on my own. It achieves what the internet was meant to do because everyone contributes and shares ideas. It brings teachers from across the country together. Thanks to Janea an... Kenny Gannon

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  • Drama Notebook has really helped me become a more efficient and organized drama teacher! Before I became a member, it was always hard finding appropriate games and ideas for my classes, but this website gathers them all and categorizes them all in the one place! It really has been a great help and an inspiration for many of my lessons an... Mohamed El-Ashiry

  • I have been teaching a class called Musical Theatre for several years now. It is a performance class where we work on acting and singing (musical theatre repertoire). I have spent $100’s on books and materials, but still am always looking for more to improve what I do. This year as I was searching the web for lesson ideas and activities I found Dramanotebook.com. I did the trial membership and it was a “no brainer” to... Sincerely, Dianna Schmidt

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  • As I don’t have the chance to go peruse book shelves or talk to a colleague regarding my drama class, I have been very thankful to have the resources of Drama Notebook on line to see me through this semester of teaching drama. I live and teach in rural Alaska (no roads to where I live!) and teach all the English and history classes for 6-12th grades. In addition I teach whatever electives are needed, and this semester it was drama w... Annie Mackovjak

  • I can’t thank you enough for ALL the wonderful work you’ve done on behalf of Drama teachers and their lucky students. After retiring from teaching first grade, I found myself saying yes to teaching a Kindergarten through fifth grade drama program. I have always enjoyed doing “plays” with my classes so I decided to take a leap of faith and try it! During my first semester, I scoured the Internet and books trying to put together... Kelley Lannon

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Over 3,000 teachers in 28 countries have subscribed to Drama Notebook since 2010.
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