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Inspiration for creating Spellbound magic at home, including downloadable PDFs and audio tracks of original music and guided play.
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Week 9: I Love Me
What do you think of when you hear your favorite rhyme? Does it make you feel good inside? In Spellbound Theatre’s Pop-Up show, A Book of Hours, the family ends a fun-filled day by being tucked into bed with a nursery rhyme. This week we want to nourish the youngest generation of Black people in our community with these bedtime activities. The creators of these experiences are people of color and the art they were inspired by was also created by people of color. We hope this inspires you and your little one to Love You.
June 26
June 26
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Listen to our sleep affirmation track designed exclusively
for your little one 
Photo by Hyphen Photography
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Download our
Parent Activity Guide "I Love Myself" 
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Read this bedtime story
by Lupita Nyong'o Illustrated by Vashti Harrison 
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Week 8: Letters to Little Ones
This week’s activity is designed only for the grown-ups! Take a moment to write a letter to the children in your life. This is an opportunity to explain what is going on in the world right now, convey the power and resilience of those who are fighting for a better one, and share your own dreams for the future. To support your writing experience, we have provided two peaceful tracks from one of our shows.
June 19
June 19
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Listen to music from
"Under the Tree" while you write 
Photo by Melissa Costidis
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Download our
Parent Activity Guide "Letters to Little Ones" 
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Week 7: Black Music Month
This week we’re celebrating Black Music Month! Inspired by our show Shakespeare’s Stars, a sensory installation for 0-2s, families can design their own tambourines. Then use your creation to jam along with our playlist of tunes by Black artists.
June 13
June 13
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Jam to our
"#BlackMusicMonth" playlist |
Download our
Parent Activity Guide "Get Up and Make Noise" 
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Watch an activity demo
to make your own tambourine |
Week 6: Black Lives Matter
As protests carry on globally calling for a more just world for Black and Indigenous people of color, your family can find ways to participate at home. Here are some resources available online for discussions, books, and activities to share with your children.
June 6
June 6
Download our
Parent Activity Guide
"#BLM with Early Years"
Parent Activity Guide
"#BLM with Early Years"
Week 5: What Can Your Body Do?
The World Inside Me takes you on a journey exploring and celebrating the inner life of our growing bodies. How can your body move? What sounds does it make? How does it feel? In this weeks’ activities you get to mirror a loved one and listen to the music inside you.
May 28
May 28
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Play the
"Peek-A-Boo" song from "The World Inside Me" 
Photo by Hyphen Photography
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Download our
Parent Activity Guide "The Mirror Effect" 
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Listen to
the music inside you! |
Week 4: Seeds, Sprouts, and Sunshine |
How does your garden grow?
Grow! explores the life cycle of an apple tree. From seed, to flower, to fruit, we see our tree change throughout the seasons.
Did you know you can grow a tiny garden on your windowsill?
May 21
Grow! explores the life cycle of an apple tree. From seed, to flower, to fruit, we see our tree change throughout the seasons.
Did you know you can grow a tiny garden on your windowsill?
May 21
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Play music from
"Grow!" to inspire your playtime 
Photo by Melissa Costidis
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Download our
Parent Activity Guide "Create a Kitchen Scrap Garden" 
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Watch an activity demo
about growing like a seed |
Week 3: Exploring the Ocean
Inspired by Oceansong, we start offshore and journey into the ocean. What are some objects or creatures we see? Feel? Smell? Taste? Or hear while taking an adventure to your open ocean?
May 14
May 14
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Play our "ocean"
playlist to inspire your playtime |
Download our
Parent Activity Guide "Creating an Ocean Adventure" |
Watch an activity demo
about turning your bed into an ocean |
Photo by Melissa Costidis
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Week 2: Make a Nest
In Under the Tree, Pea escapes her noisy city home to find a quiet spot under a tree where she meets the bugs, birds, and other creatures that call the tree home. Today we will make our own nest at home!
May 6
May 6
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Play our "Nesting"
playlist to inspire your playtime 
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Download our
Parent Activity Guide "Make a Nest" 
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Watch an activity demo
to make an Egg/Bird puppet for your nest |
Week 1: Bring a Stuffy to Life
What happens when you go to sleep?
In Spellbound’s performance Wink, a bedroom transforms into an imaginative world full of surprises.
Today, we’ll use a bit of Spellbound magic to bring our stuffies, lovies and stuffed animals to life!
April 29
In Spellbound’s performance Wink, a bedroom transforms into an imaginative world full of surprises.
Today, we’ll use a bit of Spellbound magic to bring our stuffies, lovies and stuffed animals to life!
April 29
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Play music from
"Wink" to inspire your playtime 
Photo by Melissa Costidis
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We are offering these resources for free, but they are not free to produce. We are prioritizing a portion of our reserve funds to pay artists who are working on these projects from home. You can support our artists by making a tax-deductible donation to Spellbound, 100% of which will go directly to the people working behind the scenes (and on Zoom screens) to create these new resources for our new world.