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Overview
Project title:
Unfinished Stories
Project Location:
Sandwell
Date of Project:
February 2007 - March 2008 (year 1)
Project Participants:
Children aged 3-5 from Early Years Settings across Sandwell including schools, private nurseries, playgroups and children’s centres.
Project Funders:
SMBC
Neighbourhood Renewal Fund
Working Neighbourhoods Fund
Project Overview:
These sessions created a resource for the children to take home and keep at the end - a beautifully printed book. Multistory artists enabled children to develop individual storytelling resources to increase their skills and abilities in telling stories through a versatile visual aid that would grow and change with the child and their interests.
The unfinished storybook provided an initial stimulus for the stories and gave both the storyteller and the reader the opportunity to inform what happens by introducing their own pictures and ideas into the book. The sessions enabled the children to think more imaginatively and provide a physical outlet for realising and validating their ideas
The outcomes for this project were:
- Each parent to have their own unfinished book to use as a tool for storytelling with their children.
- Practitioners / parents to develop increased confidence in telling stories to their children using the unfinished book.
- Increased frequency with which stories are shared between children and their peers, parents and practitioners.
Further info.
Sessions included a wide range of creative activities, including group storytelling, individual storytelling, model making, drawing and colouring and character creation. Children became familiar with the format and the process of making stories in this manner and the ambition was for the children to continue to make stories using their books once they took them home.
For more information about the rest of the Time to Talk creative activities click onto the project links below.
Gallery
Below are a selection of images from the Unfinished Stories sessions.
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Some of the children involved have since been using a wider range of descriptive vocabulary when we make up group stories orally.
April 22, 2009 at 1:30 pm
The presenters were ace!! The resources were excellent and the books given to the children at the end were fantastic – thank you.
April 22, 2009 at 1:30 pm