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10 Tips for Beginning to Tell Stories to Children
Ewan McVicar provides some helpful hints and tips to get you started telling stories to children.
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Early Years Starter Pack
Some rhymes, stories and ideas to get you started with early years children and some hints and tips for using them, from Bea Ferguson.
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Scots Rhymes, Riddles & Games
A favourite selection of rhymes, riddles and games for children (and big kids!) from Senga Munro.
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Western Stories of Birds
An entertaining selection of humorous and insightful bird stories gathered from the West by Ewan McVicar as part of the Bird Exchange project with Scottish and Ugandan schools.
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African Stories of Birds
An entertaining selection of humorous and insightful bird stories gathered by Ewan McVicar from Africa as part of the Bird Exchange project with Scottish and Ugandan schools.
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Environmental Story Games
John Hamilton offers some creative ideas for exploring your local environment with children.
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Nature Story Walk
John Hamilton provides step-by-step guidance on how to help children create stories as a group, focusing on our native creatures.
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Storymaking/Creative Writing Using Puppets
Ewan McVicar outlines a group approach to creative writing by primary school children, particularly useful for children with additional support needs.
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Children Are Storytellers – Hints and Tips
Guidance on creating meaningful opportunities for children to engage with storytelling and take part in storymaking activities.
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Finding Stories – Story Starters
A few ideas from Bob Pegg on where you can look, close to home, for story starters.
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Puzzle Stories
A selection of puzzling story starters from Bob Pegg to get children and adults alike
creating their own tales.
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Storymaking with Children
Bob Pegg offers tips on telling stories to young children and includes an example to get you started.
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Identikit
What makes us who we are? Questions and ideas to encourage older children and teenagers to explore their identities.
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What is Storytelling?
A helpful explanation of storytelling from Ewan McVicar, with examples of different story types.
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Hairy Monsters
Bob Pegg shares a song and some ideas to get you creating simple songs for children.
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The Old Woman
A spooky song from Bob Pegg that can be sung or told in a group.
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A Winter Verse
Bob Pegg provides an atmospheric poem that sets the scene for listeners to make up an ending.
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The Charm of the Chain
A Norse story from Bob Pegg provides the starting point for a simple storymaking activity.
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Two Winter Riddles
A couple of short riddles to stretch the mind, shared by Bob Pegg.
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King of the Cats
Bob Pegg provides a short spooky tale with ideas for children’s storytelling and storymaking activities.
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The Shortest Spooky Tale
Bob Pegg shares his shortest spooky tale and gives you a challenge!
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