STORYTELLING IDEAS

ECE: Art, Music & Language Arts

OVERHEAD PROJECTOR

• Use the overhead projector as a storytelling aid.

• Material Ideas:• doilies, colored

acetate, string, lace...

Clothesline Stories

• Suspend a clothesline near the circle time area. Hang pictures sequentially as the story is told.

Story in a Box

• Put various props in a box to tell the story or nursery rhyme.

Draw and Tell Stories

• Draw a story while you tell a story. It can be drawn on a chalkboard or a large sheet of paper.

Magnetic Stories

• Tell a story with a steel cookie sheet or magnetic chalkboard. Back the characters with magnetic tape.

Plastic Pocket Stories

• Make a pocket chart with pages out of a photograph album. Put the characters in the pages and pull out or put the characters in while you tell the story.

Make Your Own Book

• Write a book that includes all of the children in your classroom. Use real photographs of your children or their drawings.

Act out Stories

• Choose simple stories that can be acted out easily. Try to have quite a few characters so that a group of children can participate.

Peeker Stories

• Make an object that is central to the theme of the story. Make a hole so that just a portion of a character shows as you tell the story.

Flannel Board Story

• Tell a story with a flannel board and pieces of the story

• Have children participate by putting the pieces on the board

Props

• Use a prop that corresponds with the story

• Beanies• Hats• Masks• Noses• Etc.

Story With An Extension

• Some stories can be extended into other activities easily. You may be able to connect a cooking activity, nature walk, or an art activity.