ROSES ARE RED, drugs are bad
Staying off Drugs is the Best Experience I've Had
OR
COLOR ME A DRUG FREE RAINBOW
(By Caroline S. Mackay)
This program is in rhyme using the roses are red, violets are blue verse.
Students dress in the color and they learn the verse.
Find your own rainbow song and teach the whole school so that they can all participate.
It was written for a Red Ribbon Week Assembly and was real fun for the students participating.
Student 4 is the student that tries to get the audience involved.
Participants-------------32 or more
Time----------------------30-45 min
Costuming---------------provided by students
Ages----------------------8 - 13
Stage set up-------------Minimal
(Students 1,2,3 should be dressed in red and covered with red ribbons.)
(All the students that come out and say their lines and then go sit in a straight line to the right of the center of the stage.)
STUDENT 1: (comes to the mike on the right)
Drugs can make your world ugly not pretty
And that would be such a very bad pity.
STUDENT 2: (comes to the mike on the left)
The colors of the rainbow are here today.
To help you keep tobacco, alcohol and drugs away.
STUDENT 3: (comes to the mike on the right)
These colors are wiser than they tend to show
Let’s have them tell you what they all know.
(Student 4, dressed in blue, comes to the left mike)
STUDENT 4: Roses are red
Violets are blue
I won’t ever take drugs
How about you? (points to the audience)
(Student 5, dressed in black, comes to the right mike)
STUDENT 5: Roses are red
Night is black
I won’t take drugs
Cause I’m smarter than that. (Points to head)
(Student 6, dressed in dark green, comes to the left mike.)
STUDENT 6: Roses are red
Trees are forest green
Taking lots of drugs
Could make me real mean. (Makes a mean face)
(Student 7, dressed in white, comes to the right mike.)
STUDENT 7: Roses are red
Sheets are white
Someone offers me drugs
I’d say that is just not right. (Put hands on hips)
