Story number 36. Finger paint is one of the most engaging and immediate mediums for storytelling. It is sensory, tangible, participatory and seems to appeal to all ages.
Category: Using stories to teach
Rata arrives at the totara tree and promptly collapses.
Whenever I am in a centre and want to tell a story with table top puppets, there is invariably a problem that all the two legged characters behave as though they are permanently inebriated, There are the cute family dolls with bendy bodies and large wooden feet and, with a chair or a wall, they can cope relatively well. But there they must stay.
Then there are the Lego characters who have large heads and smallish feet and cannot maintain their balance without a vehicle to prop themselves up in. Steiner dolls are great at standing for the most part but they don’t survive very well with children reared on indestructible plastic toys. Also they usually tend to be girls because their flared bodies lend themselves well to a skirt shape. And of course they have no feet. But this is surmountable with some imagination. Which children usually have ten fold or more. Read More