Stage a Play

One of life's great thrills is a stage curtain lifting--even if the curtain is a bedspread and the stage a garage floor. If you're long on neighborhood talent but short on plot ideas, take your script from stories the kids know. They can stick to the original or--for a fun twist--modernize or adapt it (What if Cinderella lived in the nineties or Clifford was a big red cat?).

Here's a short list of easy tales to stage:

JACK AND THE BEANSTALK
GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
STONE SOUP
RUMPELSTILTSKIN
THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT