[gentle playful music] - Hello, everyone!

My name is Ms. Caitlyn and I'm a teaching artist with New York City Children's Theater.

Today we're going to use our voices, bodies, and imaginations to do a theater activity together.

Are you ready?

Let's go.

Today, we're going to explore our five senses.

Do you remember what your five senses are?

Let's do them together.

Ready?

We see, we hear, we smell, we touch, and we taste.

Those are our five senses.

Today, we're going to go on an adventure that uses our five senses.

Are you ready to explore with me?

Let's get started.

The first thing we need to do is turn on our imaginations.

Our imaginations are going to help us imagine or pretend when we go on our adventure.

There are three steps to turning on our imagination.

Will you do these steps with me?

Awesome.

Step one, we need to wake up our imaginations.

So can you do raindrop fingers on your body?

Starting at your head?

Wake up that imagination.

Very nice.

Step two, we need to energize our imagination.

So can you shake that body to energize the imagination?

Nice job.

And step three, time to turn it on.

Ready?

Turn on your imagination!

Can you make your body into a starfish pose?

Ready?

Turn on your imagination.

Nice work.

Now that our imaginations are turned on, we are ready to go on our adventure.

Today we're going on a, drum roll, please.

[imitates drumroll beating] [cymbals crash] An ocean swimming adventure.

Now this is a magical ocean, which means the waters are changing all the time.

So we will have to practice our super swimmer skills.

Can you show me how you swim?

Awesome.

So we can move our arms like this when we're swimming.

Before we go on this magical ocean swimming adventure, we need to put on our swimming gear.

So first, bathing suits.

Woo, woo, woo.

Nice.

And floaties.

Joop, joop.

Just in case.

Flippers on your feet.

Woop, woop.

And last but not least, goggles.

It's time to dive in.

Follow me.

Arms up, hands together, and dive in.

Splash!

Whoa, we are in the ocean.

Look down.

This is the clearest and cleanest ocean I have ever seen.

I can see all the way to the bottom of this ocean.

What do you see?

I see bright coral and shiny fish and bright green seaweed.

Alright, let's keep swimming.

Whoa, I think the ocean is changing.

Do you hear that?

I, oh.

I think the fish are singing.

What song do you hear in this singing ocean.

Oh.

Can you sing the song that you're hearing for me?

Oh, nice.

I hear.

[hums softly] Oh, wow.

All right, let's keep swimming.

Another change is happening.

Look, the water is turning into flowers!

Oh my goodness.

They smell amazing.

Can you take a deep breath with me and fill your nose with the smell of flowers?

Oh, I love this ocean.

Wow!

All right, let's keep swimming.

Oh look, the water's changing again.

Oh my gosh.

The ocean is filling up with teddy bears.

Ooh.

They're so soft and fuzzy!

Do you feel them?

How do the teddy bears feel on your skin?

Wow.

This is the softest teddy bear ocean ever!

[laughs] Oh, let's keep swimming.

I think the ocean is changing one more time.

Oh, it's getting really hard to swim.

I think it's a jello ocean now.

Oh no.

Can you try to swim through the jello with me?

It's not working.

I know what we have to do.

We are going to have to eat our way through this jello ocean.

Can you take a big bite with me?

Ready?

Ooh.

What flavor is your jello ocean?

Delicious.

Okay, keep eating so we can swim our way out.

Oh, keep eating.

Oh good.

We made it!

That was one wild magic ocean.

Good thing we had our five senses to help get us through.

Wow.

Our imaginations helped us go on a really big adventure.

What was your favorite part of our adventure?

I liked that part too.

My favorite part was hearing all of the songs and the magical musical ocean.

Our swimming adventure has come to an end, but you can use your imagination and your five senses everywhere you go, and create your own adventures.

What adventure will you go on next?

I had a wonderful time exploring our five senses with you today.

And on behalf of everyone at New York City Children's Theater, thank you so much for playing and imagining with me today.