A Summer Shakespeare Club: Adventure Box

We’ve been making summer adventure boxes for years.  They are so useful for building anticipation as the children gleefully watch them fill up with goodies over the preceding weeks.

We already had most of the book resources (I often buy resources a year or two in advance) and we always keep a well stocked dressing up box.  The majority of the expense has been for the film productions of the plays.  We used YouTube whenever possible and the rest we found on Amazon for a good price.  We are re-purposing their dressing up box as this summer’s Shakespeare adventure box, simply because it was the only box big enough for everything to fit into!

Here’s what we filled it with:

• Home Made Club T-Shirts

• Advertising Banners

• Fiction books set in Shakespearean times, featuring (to a lesser or greater extent) Shakespeare:

• Books about Shakespeare:

• Books about the Globe Theater:

• A variety of children’s versions of the plays we are covering:

• A copy each of the original play A Midsummer Night’s Dream:

• DVDs including Globe theater productions, BBC productions, modern interpretations, musicals…

• A folder for each child with all the worksheets and information sheets as well as planning sheets:

• My own planning folder with the following week worth of planning in:

• Polaroid camera with lots of film, ribbon with mini pegs to put up our human slide show:

• Lots of Dressing up and material to make dressing up….

• …..including wings, fairy masks and a paper mache ass mask for Bottom to use!

• Lots of huge card, boxes, paint and other things which might look great for scenery in a forest:

• A scrap book/ journal to write thoughts, stick pictures and capture the whole summer, with scrap book supplies:

 

And everything fits nicely into our huge dressing up box:

I’m thinking it won’t stay that neat for very long!