Choosing Topics for Scripts

Each month at Kids Club we have a different theme.  So, I match our readers theater topic to the theme of our Kids Club.  What is really fun to do if it is an animal theme, is to recreate one of the popular fairy tales.  For example the theme is tortoises then I go with the story of the Tortoise and the Hare.  I make the story have things in it that are found in the kids' lives today.  The hare might have a cell phone and so he would stop here and there to text his friends during the race.  The hare would go work out at his health club to get ready for the race.