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| Small Miracles by Maureen Speller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 54. Chorus. Three short plays, one cast can perform all three or they can have separate casts. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Choral music to be played at various points in play, at discretion of director. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Collection of three short plays with Biblical themes. Suitable for performance by children. |
| Synopsis | A trio of short plays following the story of Mary, Joseph and Jesus from the end of most Nativity stories to the early days of Christianity in Rome. |
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| The Snowflake Mistake by Lou Treleaven |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. Amongst other roles, members of the cast play the machine that makes snowflakes. |
| Run Time | Around 9 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play for young children based on the illustrated children's book The Snowflake Mistake by Lou Treleavan. No set required, just simple props (which could be made by children as part of the preparation for the show). |
| Synopsis | When Princess Flurry is left in charge of the snowflake machine, she gets distracted and the machine breaks down. She gets her friends to help her make snowflakes manually, and her mother the Queen is delighted with the results. |
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| Sparkles by Michal Y Noah |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Additional non-speaking dancers could be added in. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short rhyming script for young children, with a minimal leafy scene set. |
| Synopsis | The stages of Sparkles' transformation - leaving her egg, spinning a cocoon, and emerging from the cocoon as a butterfly, are described in this simple rhyming script. There could be opportunities for non-speaking cast members to perform a dance or mime to make the transformation appear more spectacular. |
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Squirrel Plays His Part by Stuart Ardern
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. The characters are three narrators and lots of jungle animals. The numbers are intended to be flexible, with options to combine or redistribute lines. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for two original songs is included with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Musical play for young children. No set requirements. A few simple props. A moral story about prioritisation and co-operation! |
| Synopsis | The jungle animals are supposed to be growing crops, but they keep getting distracted by ants! |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| Sticky Snail and the Fire Dragons by Richard Morris |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. All characters are animals. Numbers could be increased by multiplying the numbers of each sort of animal! |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Rhyming script aimed at an audience of young children (UK years 1-3, US K-2). |
| Synopsis | The animals are cold, damp and miserable - they need fire to warm them up, but for that, they must persuade the fire dragons to help. Unfortunately, the fire dragons only want to fight! |
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V For Valentine by Olivia Arieti
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Five songs with new lyrics to traditional tunes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A musical sketch perfect for teaching children about Valentine's Day. |
| Synopsis | It's Valentine's Day party time and Miss Daisy and her class are preparing for the event. Unusual guests arrive and help the teacher to introduce the festivity's traditions, nursery rhymes and songs. |
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| The Very Busy Stable by Juliet Devon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Narrator role could be split amongst several narrators. There are optional choruses of stars, angels and animals. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] The timing assumes the use of four songs. |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for four songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Short rhyming nativity play (with options for including songs). Principally told by the narrator, with lines for the other participants. |
| Synopsis | The nativity story told very simply as just the stable scene with visitors. |
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| We Have Character by Sherrill S. Cannon & Kerry E. Gallagher |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. A narrator and (up to) 25 children. Since all the children's roles could be doubled, in theory it could be done by a cast of two, but in practice it is intended as a full-class piece. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] With songs, which may vary the length of performance. |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for up to eight songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act performance piece for young children. |
| Synopsis | A rhyming exploration of well-known children's books, with simple parables drawn from the characters. |
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| When You Wish Upon a Star... Fish by Sherrill S. Cannon & Kerry E. Gallagher |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 26. No chorus. Most of the characters are sea creatures. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with suggestions for 10 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Simple play for young children. Partly in verse, and with song suggestions. |
| Synopsis | A little girl finds a starfish and is transported to the sea bed, where she meets many wondrous creatures who speak to her in rhyme about their life underwater. |
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| The Wonderful World of the Weather by Sherrill S. Cannon & Kerry E. Gallagher |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 40. No chorus. Lots of characters, but with just a few lines each, so lots of doubling possible. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script contains suggestions for 7 songs and three musical interludes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Rhyming play for young children. No set or props needed.
The text displayed on-line is in British English, but there is also an edition in US English (US spellings and 'Fall' instead of 'Autumn'). |
| Synopsis | A whirlwind tour of the weather and seasons. |
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