The following play was made up by the children in Room Five after reading the story "A Lion in the Meadow" We had more than one reader. You will need to add in Reader One, Reader Two etc if you use this as a print out.

Characters.

Lion

Boy

Mother

Reader

Setting. A kitchen. Mother is busy peeling potatoes. There is a large broom cupboard in the corner of the room.

(Boy comes running in.)

Boy. Mother, there is a Lion in the meadow.

Mother. Nonsense little boy.

Boy. There is a big, roaring, whiskery lion in the meadow.

Mother. Nonsense little boy. You are making up stories again. Go in to the meadow and look for yourself.

Boy. I am too scared to go because of the Lion.

Mother. Nonsense little boy. Take this match box in to the meadow and open it up. A little dragon will come out and it will grow. The dragon will scare the lion away.

Reader. So the little boy took the match box and went away.

The Mother went on peeling potatoes.

Suddenly the door opened.

In rushed a big roaring, yellow, whiskery lion.

Lion. Hide me. A dragon is after me.

Reader. The lion hid in the broom cupboard.

(Little boy runs in)

Little Boy. Mother, that dragon grew too big. There is no lion in the meadow now. There's a dragon in the meadow.I am going to hide in the broom cupboard.

(Boy hides in broom cupboard with the Lion)

Lion. Hello little boy.

Boy. Hello lion.

Lion. You should have left me alone. I only eat apples.

(Mother opens the cupboard.)

Mother. There wasn't a real dragon. It was just a story I made up.

Boy.It turned out to be true after all. You should have looked in the match box first.

Lion. That's how it is. Some stories are true and some aren't. Let's go and play in the meadow on the other side of the house. There is no dragon there.

Little Boy. I am glad we are friends now.