tutti frutti productions and York Theatre Royal - Rapunzel Resource Sheet – Key Stage 1 activity

Learning Resources

tutti frutti celebrates its 21st birthday by commissioning leading children's playwright

Mike Kenny to write a fabulous new playful production of Rapunzel; a story about a

girl who is taken away from what she knows and protected from all the things that

she loves.

Placed high-up in a tower above the world and faced with the challenge of growing-up, she is found alone, dreaming….

The sun goes up The moon goes down The world keeps turning Round and round.

The moon comes up The sun goes down Can things that are lost Ever be found?

1 year, 2 years, the girl gets older The summers hot, the winters colder

3 years, 4 years, her tower stands straight The girl is dreaming, and still she waits…..

5 years, 6 years, the years go by She's still alone, she wonders why?……

Rapunzel is a delightful new production for children about the curiosity and joys of growing up, risk taking and discovering who you are.

Illustrations by Jacky Flemming

tutti frutti productions and York Theatre Royal - Rapunzel Resource Sheet – Key Stage 1 activity

Welcome to the Rapunzel learning resource!

We hope that you and your children enjoyed our interpretation of Rapunzel. To enhance the

experience of the show we have developed some activities that relate to the performance

and can be enjoyed in the classroom or at home. Many of the activities included in this

resource are for groups to carry out in a school environment, but many of them will also work

well for families to do at home individually with their children.

These activities aim to:

Encourage creativity and imaginative play

Develop emotional literacy & empathy

Enable children to develop their storytelling skills & literacy

Develop children’s imagination and expressive skills through drama & art

Develop children’s verbal and communications skills

Develop children’s ability to recall and analyse what they have seen

Develop the children’s sense of self and identify

Rapunzel reference materials

There are a range of resources on our website that can be used to remind children about the

characters and the story including images and videos. www.tutti-frutti.org.uk

Share your creative work with us

We’d really like to see and share all of the creative work that you and your children produce

and have included this camera icon with some of the activities.

When you see this icon it means that we would love you to take a picture of the

work created by your child or group and email it to us at hello@tutti-frutti.org.uk.

We will then share it on our website and through our social media sites for all to

see.

Please note that by sending us your images you are giving us permission to share them on

our website and social media sites. www.tutti-frutti.org.uk

tutti trutti productions Shine Harehills Road Harehills Leeds LS8 5HS Tel: +44 (0)113 388 0027

tutti frutti productions and York Theatre Royal - Rapunzel Resource Sheet – Key Stage 1 activity

tutti frutti productions and York Theatre Royal - Rapunzel Resource Sheet – Key Stage 1 activity

Key stage 1 activities

Create a poem

Write an acrostic poem about the story of Rapunzel using the template provided.

Think about the story and what happened in the play as Rapunzel grew up, what

she thought, who she met, where she went, how she felt, where she lived.

How many words can the children think of that begin with Z?

Use the table below to find words beginning with Z to include in the poem.

Zoom Zonk Zone Zing Zigs Zest

Zaps Zany Zags Zero Zzz Zip

Zoo Zig Zap Zag Zebra Zizzling

Zippiest Zippered Zingiest Zillions Zigzaggy

tutti frutti productions and York Theatre Royal - Rapunzel Resource Sheet – Key Stage 1 activity

tutti frutti productions and York Theatre Royal - Rapunzel Resource Sheet – Key Stage 1 activity

Create a bookmark

Ask the children to design a bookmark based on things they can remember from

the story using the cut-out template below.

One side could include a visual design with a word at the top that relates to the image. On

the other side they could create an acrostic poem based on their descriptive word on the

front. Glue the two sides of the bookmark together when finished. To finish the bookmark

off get the children to plait some thread, make a hole with a hole punch at the top of the

bookmark and thread the plait through to make a tassel.

tutti frutti productions and York Theatre Royal - Rapunzel Resource Sheet – Key Stage 1 activity

What did you do today?

Ask the children to draw a picture diary about what they imagine one of the

characters from the story would do during the day. Ask them to think about:

where the character might go, who they might see, what they might eat, what

their home is like, what the people they live with are like, their neighbours, their clothes, the

weather etc.

Use the diary templates provided below.

Ask the children to draw a picture for each part of the day and describe what is happening.

tutti frutti productions and York Theatre Royal - Rapunzel Resource Sheet – Key Stage 1 activity

Ask the children to do a diary of their own day.

tutti frutti productions and York Theatre Royal - Rapunzel Resource Sheet – Key Stage 1 activity

Wish you were here!

Using the postcard template on the following page ask the children to create a

picture of a place that Rapunzel would like to visit. Draw or make a collage using

pictures from a magazine. At the top of the picture write a caption to describe

what is happening.

On the back of the postcard describe this location to Rapunzel. Ask the children to think

about smells, colours, seasons, people, animals, clothing. Is the place real or imaginary

location, or a place from their favorite book? What would they do together with Rapunzel in

this place?

tutti frutti productions and York Theatre Royal - Rapunzel Resource Sheet – Key Stage 1 activity

tutti frutti productions and York Theatre Royal - Rapunzel Resource Sheet – Key Stage 1 activity

Fantastic journey

Using a large piece of wrapping/brown paper draw a path that can be used as a

basis for the children to create a journey, see the example below. Cut the

paper into sections so that each group of 5/6 children have a piece of the path.

Ask the children to create a journey that they would take Rapunzel on to show her the world.

Ask them where they think she would like to go. Their house? Another country? Space? The

seaside? Jungle? Moon? etc.

Once all of the journeys are complete join them together and make a wall display. Ask each

child to describe their part of the journey and what they would like Rapunzel to see and what

they would do together when they were there.

Example of how a section of a journey might appear.

tutti frutti productions and York Theatre Royal - Rapunzel Resource Sheet – Key Stage 1 activity

3 questions

Using the resources at the end of this learning resource and the images and videos on the

tutti frutti website (www.tutt-frutti.org.uk) talk with the children about the characters in the

story.

Ask them to list 3 questions that they would ask if they could meet a character from the play.

As a class, each person shares one of the questions they would ask and tells the group why

they would ask the character the question.

Email the questions to the character (Rapunzel, Rafi, Nan) at hello@tutti-frutti.org.uk and we

will ask the actors to answer them and put them on our website.

What’s in Rapunzel’s box?

Working in groups of 5/6 ask each child to write/draw on a post it note a special object that

they think Rapunzel would keep in her box. In turn, each child puts a post it note in a

container in the middle of table. Children can also mime the object and put it in an imaginary

box and ask the group to guess what it is. Each child in turn has to remember the objects

already in the box and the object they have added. They say these out loud to the group.

Rapunzel had a yoyo in her box

Rapunzel has a yoyo and a pencil in her box

Rapunzel had a yoyo, a pencil and a magnifying glass in her box

A present for Rapunzel When the children have finished the game ask them to draw a picture of the object that they

would most like to give to Rapunzel to keep in her box.

Ask the children to write 3 sentences about why they chose the present for her and why they

think she will like it.

Drama

As a group ask each child to imagine that they are in the tower and have a fantastic

pair of binoculars that can see far, far away. Ask each child to describe what they can you

see through the binoculars and get the class to mime what they can see e.g., a tree, the sea,

children playing ball etc as a tableaux/freeze frame.

tutti frutti productions and York Theatre Royal - Rapunzel Resource Sheet – Key Stage 1 activity

Our house

Get the children to draw a picture of their house and each member of their family

that cares for them. Ask them to write the name of each person they have drawn on

the picture and say how old they are and the country where they were born.

Put all of the images together on the wall to create a street where the class lives. Ask

children to volunteer to tell the class about their family, their home and where they come

from. Don’t forget to send us a picture at hello@tutti-frutti.org.uk

Wordsearch

Circle the Rapunzel words in the grid below.

h t l l o n g

a o f v i e w

i w r a t x e

r e i i n m o

p r e b z o n

t o n y c o a

s a d s u n n

g r o w i n g

In Sun Nan Hair Sad View Long Moon Horizon Tower Growing Friend