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Childrens Plays

By: Linda Aronoff and Darby Wills Chism
Cast: 9 flexible, extras
Performance Time: Approximately 10-20 minutes, 26 pgs.

YOUNG CHILDREN’S COMEDY WITH SONG. (Ages 4-6 years.) This play offers a fun way to introduce drama to young children. Parents can read the script aloud as children act out their parts, and children can learn their lines visually by coloring in the included coloring book. A bug, a slug, a fly, an ant, and a bee find a piece of discarded gum on the side of a road. One by one, the insects get stuck in the sticky gum. Can they free themselves before the toad wakes up from his nap? For large school productions, children can wear corresponding bug costumes and sing in a bug chorus. The length of the play depends upon the number and length of songs included in the show.

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Linda Aronoff is a theater producer and director. She coaches acting students in the classroom and on an individual basis. Ms. Aronoff studied acting and dramatic arts at Penn State Erie and studied directing at Kennesaw University. She has two children and lives in Marietta, GA.




Darby Wills Chism teaches art and drama classes at the Kennesaw Community Center and has worked as a preschool teacher, an art-enrichment instructor, and an art specialist for Cobb County’s Cultural Affairs Department. Ms. Chism lives in her hometown of Marietta, Georgia, with her husband, David, and their children, Rebecca and Wyatt.