'We have to use our imaginations'
Joben Robb from Canyon Elementary School sprints around the theater as the gingerbread man at the Sixth Street Melodrama and Theater.
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Fourth-grader Scarlett Bonner laughs as she finishes organizing tickets for performances with Ken Bartle in the lobby of the Sixth Street Melodrama and Theater.
Wearing masks, third-graders Gunnar Visintainer, Emily Hammeren and Piper Usher act out "The House that Jack Built."
Asher Cramer and Austin Wesche act out a scene from a short play based on "The Poppy Seed Cakes." Wesche's gloves portray a bird's beak snapping up food in the story.
Paul and Carol Roberts of Grow Me A Story help Canyon Elementary students put on plays based on folk and fairy tales. In "The House That Jack Built" Emily Hammeren, Piper Usher, Morgan Johnson and Reese Robb recite the long list of people and creatures who wind up living in Jack's house together.
Frank Robinson and fifth-grader Rhett Sager tackle the lights as the elementary students run through their short plays based on folk and fairy tales.
Oakley Dumont plays the lion in a play as Paul Roberts directs Westin Mann, Asher Cramer and Sam Wendel on how to "hunt" the lion.
WALLACE — With 25 short plays based on fairy tales and folk stories, there were only so many props the students at Canyon Elementary could incorporate.
Carol and Paul Roberts of Grow Me A Story urged the second graders putting on “The Lion and the Mouse,” “The Gingerbread Man” and “The Poppy Seed Cakes” to push beyond the silliness of make-believe to bring the plays to life.
“We have to use our imaginations, that’s what theater’s all about," Carol Roberts said.
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