Our World Book Day workshops link literacy, physicality and creativity. We love turning books into fantastic dances, to inspire and excite your pupils. Dance offers a new and exciting way to make your favourtie books come alive!

Books are such a wonderful way to open up a new world of fantasy and learning. Reading books with your pupils, or family is a bonding and rewarding experience for everyone involved.

We will tailor our World Book Day dance workshops for KS1 and KS2. We also make it very appealing to both boys and girls.

Which book to choose?

Your whole school might be focusing on one particular book, so we can use that as our inspiration.

Or you might like us to choose a good book to base our dance workshops around. We have done many book inspired workshops, focusing on all the different characters in the book, or just the story it’s self.

Inspiration

Take a look at some of our blogs where we have taught some fun World Book Day dance workshops.

For some life size bunny adventures, we taught dances based on ‘Guess How Much I love You’ by Sam McBratney.

We took Shakespeare’s ‘Potion’ Scene from Romeo and Juliet and made it into a creative dance for KS2.

Roald Dahl themed dance workshops, using some of his different stories

The Jumanji book turned into a dance

Key Stage one Julia Donaldson book themed dance workshops

Workshop Content

• Intro from your Zest teacher on how to create dance using books as an inspiration
• Dance warm up with music linking to the chosen book
• Reading the students the book/a passage from the book/poem
• Teaching a creative dance based on the themes in the book
• Getting the students to extend our dance using their creative ideas
• Cool down and stretch

Music

We carefully choose the music we use for our Book themed dance workshops to inspire children and link to the story. Especially for boys who might be not as familiar with dance, we have found that using interesting music works really well for children.

Contact US

Drop us an email or give us a call to see how we can bring our World Book Day Workshops to you.