Have fun studying Shakespeare in your homeschool!
It can be easy to study Shakespeare with children of all age levels.
There are a number of children’s books that retell some of his plays so even your youngest children can become familiar with his characters and stories.
You can listen to those or the original plays online with free audios as well.
Shakespeare’s plays are performed worldwide by schools and local community theater groups in shorter children versions or in the original form.
You can have fun retelling the stories with puppets as the characters or act them out yourselves!
Write summaries and draw pictures of your favorite scenes.
Learn about Shakespeare and the Globe Theater with books written for children or look online for fun websites about his life, his works, and the theater.
Have a party and invite different characters from his plays or different historical figures from his time period to attend.
Serve food from the Renaissance time.
Play guessing games where you try to guess if a word was invented or a phrase coined by William Shakespeare or not.
Or, if a quote comes from one of his plays or from the King James Bible. It can be tricky!
Suggested Resources to Study Shakespeare in your Homeschool
Online Books to Read (Summaries of his plays in story form for children)
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare for Children retold by E. Nesbit
Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb
Resources for high schoolers reading Romeo and Juliet
Information for Children about Shakespeare
Shakespeare for Kids by the Folger Shakespeare Library (a variety of things)
Shakespeare’s Globe Theater for Children (very cool site with virtual tour of the Globe Theater)
Globe Theater printable to construct your own
Puppets for Midsummer Night’s Dream (very cool)
Printable Twelfth Night puppets – near the bottom of this homeschooler’s post.
Have a party for Shakespeare on around April 23rd with this printable party pack – it’s an instant party to print out!
To celebrate the Bard’s Birthday, I am offering a coupon code for 20% off our Having Fun with Shakespeare for Kids and Teens ebook! Use Shakespeare20 when checking out!
Stuck on how to teach Shakespeare?
Need some ready to print off copywork pages with Shakespeare quotes, some with pictures or spaces for your own original drawing?
Need some notebooking pages to have your children retell their favorite scene from a story or play?
Need some book and activity suggestions in addition to the ones above?
This ebook is the perfect answer and ready to print off and use at a moment’s notice!
Visit my page and listen to my Podcast “Why Study Shakespeare?” at the Ultimate Homeschool Radio Network for lots more ideas and resources about studying Shakespeare in your homeschool!
