The Drama Program Built For Early Learning
Forty themed weeks of play-based drama, developed by industry professionals and aligned to the Early Years Learning Framework. Your educators press play and the room comes alive. No specialist staff, no planning nights, and nothing to laminate!
✔︎ EYLF Aligned ✔︎ No Specialist Needed ✔︎ Australian-made
Aligned To The Early Years Learning Framework
Drama lessons shaped by the 5 C's - confidence, connection, consent, creativity, communication; our core values - and built to meet the EYLF requirements. Observable outcomes, delivered with a touch of drama.
Outcome names from the Early Years Learning Framework V2.0 (2022).
Everyone Agrees The Children Would Love More Drama. Then The Week Happens.
Your team already writes experiences in their own time. A drama program from scratch is the one that never makes it off the someday list.
And nobody’s hiring one.
“The children enjoyed it” isn’t a learning outcome. If an activity can’t speak framework, it’s hard to defend the hours it takes.
Confidence, communication and consent — on every centre’s list, in every family conversation, and the hardest things to teach on purpose.
Plug In A Complete Drama Program — Run It With The Educators You Already Have.
Forty weeks of drama, written and recorded by two teaching and working actors. Lesson plans, video demonstrations, guided voiceovers and prompt lists all live in the app, organised by week and ready to play.
An educator who’s never taught drama presses play, and a working actor walks them through it, with every week and every exercise written with the framework in view.
Get the Early Learning Program Guide ➜
What’s In The App (And The Box)
Lesson plans, voiceovers, video demonstrations. Organised by week, findable in seconds.
Emu eggs, memory boards, hats, coins, keys, wands. Nothing to source, nothing to laminate at 9pm.
Children practise asking, offering and saying no, inside the safety of a story.
Outcomes you can document, week after week.
Drama experience helps. It isn’t required, and the program doesn’t assume it.
Watch a working actor run it. Then press play and run it yourself.
Forty Weeks That Flow -
A Whole Year, Ready-To-Go
The Preschool Program follows the calendar year and celebrates the seasons, so the room and the curriculum are never out of step. Book Week lands in actual Book Week, NAIDOC Week honours First Nations stories and culture, and all the favourites fill the weeks in between.
On the calendar
The favourites, asked for by name
Pirates
Pets
Superheroes
Dinosaurs
Space
The Women Who Wrote
Every Week
Kristy Wright and Zoe Trilsbach co-created Act It Out after decades working across the Australian performing arts and education industries. Kristy founded Indigo Kids, her own acting school for children, and taught there for seven years before joining the faculty at Ettingshausens PRO. Zoe was the original voice of the ABC Kids albums and has worked professionally across acting, singing and voice — which is why the guided voiceovers hold a child's attention the way they do. Between them they understand how drama does the quiet developmental work an early learning service is already committed to: confidence, connection, consent, creativity and communication.
Alongside their performing careers, they've taught the classes, sat on the mat, and worked a room at the end of a long day when nobody wanted to sit still. Both are mothers who have raised their own children through the early years. Every lesson, every prop and every video walkthrough is created by people who understand what it takes to hold a room full of three year olds — and a room full of five year olds — week after week.
QUESTIONS? ANSWERS.
Everything You Want To Know Before You Enquire
If we've missed anything, get in touch! Book a free video chat or email us at [email protected]
Does an educator need drama experience?
✦No. Every lesson has a video demonstration, a guided voiceover and a written plan. If your educator can press play and join in, they can run a session.
How does it map to the EYLF?
✦The program is aligned to the Early Years Learning Framework V2.0. Our 5 C's sit one to one with the five learning outcomes — confidence with identity, connection with contributing to their world, consent with wellbeing, creativity with confident and involved learners, communication with effective communicators. A drama session gives you something to document against any of the five, in the language your service already uses.
How long is a session, and how often do we run it?
✦One new lesson per week, forty weeks of the year. A session runs 20 to 30 minutes, which is about as long as a group of this age will hold a single thread. Run it at the same time each week or fit it around your routine; lessons can be repeated throughout the week as your class enrollments shift. The week is ready whenever you are!
What's in the Resource Kit, and is it included?
✦Everything you need to make some magic; emu eggs, memory boards, hats, coins, keys, wands and more, delivered to your centre and ready-to-go. Additional prop boxes can be purchased as required.
What ages is it for?
✦Three to five year olds. Younger children in a mixed room can join in and take what they can from it — nothing in a session excludes them.
What group size does it work with?
✦Whatever group you already have. A handful of children on a mat, or a full room. Nothing in the program depends on a minimum number, and a larger group only needs the second educator your ratios already require.
Is this drama, or is it just games?
✦Drama. Story, character, voice and movement, written by working actors into something with a spine. The games are in there, and every one of them is going somewhere.
What does it cost?
✦The guide covers it, and we’ll happily talk it through on a free chat. No obligation.
Act It Out acknowledges the Dharawal speaking people, who are the Traditional Custodians and owners of the land on which we work and play today. We pay our deepest respects and highest gratitude to the Elders, past and present, who have protected the lands and waterways and all life within since the time of the Dreaming, and to all Indigenous People who honour and keep the community and culture alive today. Always has been, always will be, Aboriginal land.