Role Play Script: The Naughty Elephant and the Brave Ant
Characters:
• Narrator (teacher or one student)
• Elephant
• 2–3 Ants (one is the Brave Ant)
• 2–3 Small Jungle Animals (optional: rabbit, bird, squirrel)
Script with Actions
Narrator:
(Standing at side)
“Once upon a time, there was a huge elephant in the forest.”
Stage direction: Elephant enters slowly, stomping feet.
Elephant (stomping loudly, waving trunk):
“Ha ha! I am big! I am strong!”
Narrator:
“He was very naughty and got angry quickly.”
Elephant (pretending angry):
“Move away, small animals!” (waves trunk)
Narrator:
“Inside a tree hole lived an ant family.”
Stage direction: Ants enter marching in a line, wave to audience.
Ant 1 (smiling, waving):
“Hello! We are tiny ants.”
Narrator:
“The elephant always troubled the ants and small animals.”
Elephant (pretends spraying water):
“Ha ha! Take this water!” (sprays imaginary water with trunk)
Ant (angry, hands on waist):
“Stop troubling us, Elephant!”
Elephant (laughing):
“I am big! You can’t hurt me!”
Narrator:
“The ants made a plan to teach him a lesson.”
Brave Ant (steps forward):
“I will go inside his trunk!”
Stage direction: Brave ant walks slowly to elephant, pretends crawling up trunk.
Narrator:
“The ant crept inside the elephant’s trunk and started biting.”
Elephant (jumping, crying):
“Ouch! Ouch! Help me!”
Brave Ant (pretends speaking from inside trunk):
“Say sorry and stop troubling us!”
Elephant (holding trunk, crying):
“Sorry, sorry! I will never trouble you again!”
Stage direction: Brave ant comes out, elephant smiles.
Elephant (folds hands):
“Thank you, tiny ant. You are brave.”
Narrator or all together (hands joined):
“Moral: Never underestimate anyone.”