Happy Grinch Day!
Happy Grinch Day! Enjoy some Theatrical Grinching Fun this year! Before you eat those green Grinch cookies and after you color in that Grinch paper plate mask, why not embody the spirit of being a grinch by taking the course, GRINCHING 101? Okay, you don’t really have to take the class, but you can read the play, Grinching 101, in your class! Yes, Grinching 101 works not only as a play for production, but it’s actually fun Reader’s Theater too—lots of parts of various lengths (which you can swap around), 30-40 minutes, fun silliness, but also has a sweet message in the end. And come on, your students get to play characters with ridiculous names Merry Berry Cheery Cherry and Killjoy Cactus Snarl! The play is about a roomful of cheery elves who are trying to learn how to become a grumpy grinchy Christmas elves. And they’re failing. Miserably. But by the end, they’ll learn a thing or two, and their sour teachers just might learn a thing or two also (it is Christmas, after all!). Get the play below:
You can also check out these monologues from Grinching 101:
Tootsie Frosted Cookie Stockings’ monologue, Forbidden in the Elf Manual.
Fluffy McWaffles Tart’s monologue, Jingle Bell Hater.
AND if you’re looking for another Grinching piece of theater, here’s a stand-alone monologue called, Grinching Mom, written by Luke B. when he was 6 years old! (How cool is that to have a kid perform a monologue written by a kid?)
However you celebrate, enjoy the holiday fun, and the spirit of kindness, compassion and generosity!