Theatre is a brilliant way to inspire children long after the curtain has come down. Besides providing a great source of entertainment, it unlocks their imagination and fuels their curiosity and creativity, which are great skills for the complex world we live in.
In these challenging times, we want to keep the magic alive for families by bringing you lots of theatre-based fun to keep you entertained. In the coming months, we will be adding games, quizzes, storytimes, colouring sheets, free educational resources and more, so please share with your friends and follow along. Please also check out our online calendar below to find out where you can enjoy family-friendly theatre online.
The theatres may be dark temporarily, but that won’t stop us from leaving the light on for our theatre fans.
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Competitions & Prize Draws
Watch family-friendly theatre online
Unicorn Theatre: Philip Pullman's Grimm Tales Online
Unicorn Theatre: Anansi The Spider Re-Spun
Stephen Joseph Theatre: The Snow Queen
World premiere: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Unicorn Theatre: Roald Dahl's Twits Online
Unicorn Theatre: Huddle
Stick Man
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show (Stream On Demand)
STEM sisters: A new online musical show for primary school children and their families
The Hunting Of The Snark The Musical
The Wind In The Willows
Sarah & Duck on stage
Little Angel Theatre: Family friendly-shows
Can't Sit Still: Play-along Plink & Boo(Sign Supported English available)
Activities
Colouring sheets
Come From Away crossword
#EveryHomeATheatre - Mousetrap Theatre Projects' at-home fun
Fun indoor drama games for kids
Make your own theatre set
How to create Puppet Theatre with Reimagine: Family Creatives
Tall Stories At Home: Play & Create
Little Angel Theatre: Make a puppet in a week
Theatre Fun
Our 8 Fave Matilda moments
A Day In The Life: The School Of Rock class
10 films that got turned into musicals
10 sing-alongs for kids from theatre
Our fave Olivier Awards performances for kids
5 creative virtual parties that kids will love
Tara Tales, a new series of online storytime, bringing to life famous Indian fables
Sing-a-long with Derby Theatre's Treasure Island
Musical Chairs with #CheerUpCharlie!
Faina And The Snow Beast interactive audio book
Audio re-telling of Peter Pan
Tall Stories: Singalong with Dog Song!
Tall Stories Storytime: Demon Teddy
Tall Stories Storytime: A Lamb Who Came For Dinner
National Theatre: Madame Kalamazoo's Magical Mail
Educational Fun
English Touring Theatre have created this animation aimed at families with young children to try and explain what is going on (captioned)
Free educational resources for kids
Quiz: Which theatrical job is right for you?
Storytime: The Tiger Who Came To Tea
Play: Find the theatre job
Where in the world? Guess the musical
The Lion King Experience: an immersive arts education program about theatre-making
National Theatre's Staging Children's Stories digital exhibition (auto generated captions)
Royal Court's BBC GCSE Bitesize Films (captioned)
RSC 15min activity toolkits for GCSE learning
Wonderland Challenges: 165 actors and voice artists read Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland
Derby Theatre's Theatre For Family
LEAP Remote Tutorials with Chichester Festival Theatre
West End Stage Summer School 2021
Birmingham Hippodrome: Live Digital Workshops for 7-25 year olds