Storytelling Satchel

• Collect your own satchel of objects/artifacts that illustrate a topic or subject you are studying.  These can be natural world items like shells and colourful stones or knick knack items from home.
• Lay out a blanket or table cloth in the centre of a circle of students and introduce each object in a mime, requesting silence form the students.
• Ask students to select an object for you to tell short story about.  You can tell the real story or a made-up one.  Later on students can vote whether the story is true or false. Emphasize the imaginative aspects of the exercise not just the content.
• Students can eventually volunteer to choose an object and tell a story about it.
• Kids love to bring their own objects in too, which can be stored in a box for regular use.
• Write a short story about one of the objects and draw a picture.
• Post the pictures on a bulletin board.  Or take the students on a "viewing party" of the stories and pictures on student desks.

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