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Sunday: Entertainment Review—Storytelling
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One of my fondest memories growing up was something special my Grandparents who lived on the other side of the country would take the time to do with me.
My Grandmother and I would take turns writing a story together. We would send the book back and forth for months finishing a new page of the story. She would draw beautiful pictures of rainbows, unicorns and princesses. It helped me develop a love of writing and storytelling.
My Grandfather would record himself reading stories to us and send the tape along with the new books in the mail. My girls listen to them now, their favorite being Annie and the Mud Monster!
I am forever grateful that they took the time to show me how writing, storytelling and reading can be fun.
(Picture of Abby writing her comic strip)
Now with my two girls we love to tell each other stories. We write stories to cousins, make up our own stories with picture books and finish each other’s stories all of the time.
Do you have any good tips or fun stories to tell to do with storytelling? With your children now or while growing up? We would love to hear!
Tags: entertainment review, storytelling, sunday
I LOVE this idea. Thank you so much for the inspiration
We don’t live very close to grandparents so I absolutely LOVE this idea!! Thank you so much for sharing!
When my youngest was probably about 14 years old I would try to encourage him to use his imagination and write. (Anything to get him away from the x-box) On Sunday afternoons I would pick a person, a few objects. and maybe a place.(example, Mad Mabel, a row boat, a cup of sugar and a dark forest.) Then we would go to our own computers and begin to write. We had so much fun when we were done sharing our stories with each other. I still have those stories and treasure them and treasure the memories of writing, reading and laughing with my son.
My comment didn’t make much sense I am afraid. To claify, we had to use the objects I had picked in a story as we wrote our stories. It was fun.
I love this idea. I also love storytelling, though I am not great at it. Grayson is really getting into telling stories now and I love listening to his imagination go to town!