Mattimeo's First Play: The Very Hungry Caterpillar

One cool thing about the Children's Museum is that they have a theater where they put on regular plays and occasionally offer acting classes. This summer when Music class and Martial Arts classes were over, and I saw that they were offering acting classes for preschoolers at the museum, I jumped on the opportunity. Mattimeo is very good at memorizing long stories and poems, and has a natural flare for acting. He recites stories and poems very eloquently with a lot of emotion and pizzazz. I thought it would be fun to see how he did in an acting class with other kids.

The play was "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and over the course of three days (one morning once a week), they learned their parts and made the scenery. I would drop him off in the morning then have some one-on-one time in the museum with Link, which was excellent. After the third day, they put on their play in front of us parents. This time it was just Meo and two little girls, but I think it was good that it was a small group so Meo didn't feel overwhelmed with lots of new people in addition to being dropped off with a stranger (for the first time). They were all very brave when they preformed in front of their families and did a great job. We thought it was super cute and we are very proud of our little Mattimeo. He even prepared his own little "very hungry caterpillar" themed snack to share with his family after the play.

Here is the play:

And some photos: