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Twenty optional everyday bridgesFoundation Drama · T1 W3–4 · Example Bank

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These are playful Drama contexts, not outcomes or curriculum claims for other subjects. No real shop, transport service, family member, job identity, current event or local cultural work is represented. At home a caregiver may use plain paper and a safe broad card; no purchasing, recording, audio or performance for others is required. A child can replace any context or pass.

Day Optional bridge 1 Optional bridge 2
11 At home, draw a pretend borrowing desk empty then with a paper box; ask what changed. Tell a fictional “missing parcel” opening with box absent, then decide if a prop should appear.
12 Use a folded paper flap to hide then show an invented round token; keep it fixed beneath flap. Draw a pretend tool shelf with a broad screen slid aside in the second picture.
13 Draw a dot clue on a card for a fictional item, then show a full neutral box; name what remains unknown. Ask a caregiver to direct the clue/full cards as the child chooses; do not promise suspense.
14 Make two small paper scores: slow silent card before a reveal, then after it. In an imaginary garden shed, choose when a visible hand-held card tells a puppet to look.
15 After check, use a new blank paper envelope as prop and choose when a silent shape card appears. Reverse a new two-event paper score and say which event happens first.
16 Sketch a pretend water point with a figure near versus far from a fixed paper container. Move a broad paper figure on a stage rectangle; no real personal-space rule is taught.
17 Draw an outside/inside border for a fictional book return; a figure enters after a visible cue. Direct a caregiver's paper puppet from outside to inside a repair-bay rectangle.
18 Make a three-card fictional “find a book” scene with cue, entry and reveal. Try the same three scene moments in another order; explain what new question that creates.
19 With a permitted real drama source, ask who made it and name one observed detail. If willing, show or narrate your own invented scene to one person; record the mode, not their assumed feeling.
20 After check, make a new stage border where a paper figure enters and a broad prop becomes visible. Try a different prop shape in a fresh two-frame scene; keep the cue and hidden-to-shown rule.