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Ideas for Celebrating Florida Storytelling Week

• Learn Stories From Your Own Family
   
  Visit an older relative and ask him or her questions. Stories will usually result! Some possible questions include:
   
  • What were holidays like when you were growing up? How was they different?
     
  • Who was your best childhood friend and what did you do together?
     
  • Is there a family event you wish you could do again in a different way?
     
  • What was your grandmother's house like?
     
  • Do you remember when I was little? What was I like?
     
• Storytelling Starters
   
  Share/tell about an experience with two or more people. This activity works well in a classroom or social gathering, even over lunch. Some suggested starters include:
   
  • your favorite cousin, uncle, etc.
     
  • your first kiss, day at school, solo trip, date, babysitting job, etc.
     
  • your most embarrassing moment
     
  • when you went away to camp the first time
     
  • the worst thing that ever happened to you
     
• Play Storytelling Games
   
  • Do a storytelling circle game where one person starts a made up story and each person down the line continues the story until it concludes.
     
  • Turn a favorite fairy tale into a "fractured fairy tale". Example - Make Goldilocks a beauty queen and the three bears farmers with speech impediments.
     
  • Find an interesting item or photo and invent a story about it.
     
• Make a Story Quilt of cloth or paper
   
  Each block can represent an individual story fragment. The complete story is told while showing the appropriate quilt block for each part.
   
• Present a Storytelling Event
   
  Learn to tell stories or help coach others, such as youth tellers, then plan an event to showcase these tellers. Events could include a storytelling performance by students for other students within their own school or community, a library program after school, or a special presentation at a public place.
   
• Invite a Storyteller to Your Organization for a Performance
   
  The Florida Storytelling Association's Directory of Storytellers provides listings of storytellers throughout the state according to regions. These talented tellers are adept at bringing stories alive! Contact local StoryGroups for further information.
   
• Attend a Tellabration! Event

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