THE FAIRY TALE FOREST
Create afternoons full of imagination, play, and storytelling magic.
Get kids off the screen &
into creativity!
A story & art making workshop for creative kids to do at home.
A done-for-you, imagination packed workshop that will bring out your kids' inner storyteller.
You want your kids to have afternoons full of active, creative, independent play.
Give your kids the joy of hearing folk & fairy tales from around the world that then inspire
HOURS OF ART MAKING AND DRAMATIC PLAY!
The Fairy Tale Forest is FIVE days FULL of fairytale creativity!
Hear ye, hear ye...
Minimal Prep & Simple Materials
Art & play prompts use materials commonly found at home. No crazy art supplies necessary. Printables are included.
Independent Creative Play
Designed to encourage independent imagination, art making, and story retelling, you can get your kids set up and then let them roam in The Fairy Tale Forest!... or you can join the fun :)
Develop Key Skills
Storytelling, art making, & story retelling prompts to grow literacy, social emotional skills, deep listening, and writing and communication.
How It Works
Kids participate in an interactive video telling of a folk tale and then create a fairy tale forest map.
Kids become artists with a creative, story-inspired art project prompt that uses
SIMPLE EVERYDAY MATERIALS
Kids become storytellers as they complete creative writing and story retelling prompts.
What Does A Day In
The Fairy Tale Forest Include?
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Storytelling Video 1 (Welcome Story)
The Welcome Story. The same story is included as the opener for each day, so that kids become an "expert" storyteller of this story by the end of the week.
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Storytelling Video 2 (The Day's Story)
The Day's Story. Each day there is a fresh new folk tale to experience. The videos encourage both deep listening and call-and-response participation from the viewers.
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Mapping The Fairy Tale Forest (Off Screen)
After watching The Day's Story, kids add the main character's house to a map of The Fairy Tale Forest, so that by the end of the 5 days, kids have built a visual representation of where all the characters from each Day's Story live in The Fairy Tale Forest.
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Architecture Prompt (Off Screen)
Each day after putting the main character's house on the map, kids get a new creative building prompt that will guide them to construct the structure in 3-D using SIMPLE everyday materials found at home!
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Art Project Prompt (Off Screen)
A creative, hands-on art project to do with common art materials, inspired by The Day's Story.
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Creative Writing & Retelling Prompt (Off Screen)
Kids become authors and storytellers as they use their imagination to make their own stories spun off from The Day's Stories. The prompts have been used by kindergarten and up, though preschoolers could do the pre-writing retelling.
Check out the ADVENTURES that other CREATIVE KIDS have taken!
Watch a Fairy Tale Forest adventurer retell one of the stories by using her art making creations as story objects!
READY TO LAUNCH THE ADVENTURE?
Get FIVE DAYS worth of creative, story-filled activities that your kids will love!
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Self-guided videos & activities that kids can do while at home USING SIMPLE everyday materials!
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Interactive storytelling builds literacy and narrative skills
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Art making invitations fire up imaginative thinking
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Creative writing prompts get kids happily picking up their pencils to build a world.