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.