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zac
Unregistered User
(10/4/01 2:32:31 am)
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Repacking fairy tales
It is no easy task I must say, to re-package a fairy tale yet keeping its original themes alive. How can we re-create these works creatively such that our children can perhaps more pro-actively participate during the process of listening to or reading these tales? I am in the midst of designing a game to which not only can the story be read, the game acts as an alternative source of encouraging imagination. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Jess
Unregistered User
(10/4/01 8:41:12 am)
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Magic Box
A couple of years ago I created a game for my children and the neighborhood children called "Magic Box" stories. The crux of these stories was that a child would climb into the magic box with any object and turn into that object until he/she returned to the magic box. Often the children would begin to dictate what would happen, and eventually they created their own magic box stories. It was wonderful to see how kids from the ages of 2 to 11 could enjoy this creative device.
I think you could do something similar with chidren "climbing into" their favorite fairy tales, assuming the role of the main character (or subordinate character), but doing things in their own ways. You might be surprised at how they would "re-tell" a story. It could be fun for adults too. You might tell them they have to include certain elements of the original story in their version, but leave the rest up to them.
Just a thought. Good luck.
Jess
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Jess
Unregistered User
(10/4/01 9:19:07 am)
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Another thought
Keeping with the idea above, except have the child tell the story from another character's perspective. I stole this idea from Kate's book. One of the author's discussed a story from the stepmother's perspective.
I'll let you know if I come up with anything else.
Jess
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Lotti
Unregistered User
(10/4/01 1:17:37 pm)
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Put it "on stage"
I always found that children love play-acting. Let them enact the tale! I remember those "plays" fondly from my own childhood, and I also recollect a nursery song wich tells the story of Snowwhite and to each stanza a "dumbshow" had to be enacted. Maybe there are similar nursery rhymes in English??
Regards, Lotti
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