Scottish Charity No. SCO37292

Fun First Fabletales

Fun First Fabletale sessions are FREE (donations welcome) language development groups for children aged 3-5yrs. The emphasis of each session is on using fun, traditional storytelling techniques, drama, books and songs to develop key language skills. Click here to find out more.

Where and When

Why not bring your child to a session at:

 Helensburgh Library

W. King St, Helensburgh (See our location at the Multimap website.)

Tuesdays at 2.00pm Jan 13th Feb 10th Mar 10th

 Cardross Library

 Main Road, Cardoss (see our location at the Multimap website.)

Thusdays at 2.00pm Jan 15th Feb 12th Mar 12th

Information

Each Fabletale session will see a story be brought to life before your very eyes. Our own magical storyteller will lead the children (aged 3-5yrs) in drama activities which will get them all moving and using their imagination. They may be out for a walk in the snow, tramping through a jungle or even exploring an old attic. Whatever they are doing, along the way they will have lots of different tasks to complete, like putting on their winter clothes, chopping back some trees or dusting off the treasures from the attic. Each adventure will have lots of opportunities for different actions and these in turn will lead the children to some of their old favourite rhymes and songs. Having gathered up lots of ideas for their story the children will then ask Onion, our very special Story Finder (who is actually a rather beautiful puppet, but please don't tell the children, they believe he is real!!!) to choose a story using all their ideas. Only then will a story be told (often without the aid of a book), as a finale to this epic adventure!

Fabletales was established to run along side The Story of The Month initiative. Story of the Month was established by FUSIONS Bute and Cowal in partnership with Dunoon Library and Information Services. The idea being that families would be able to access free activity sheets inspired by a different book every month of the year. Multiple copies of each book were available at the local library and 'Story of the Month' members had priority on borrowing these copies. It is now hoped that this project should be rolled out to the rest of Argyll and Bute. Fun First was able to see the huge benefit that this project would bring to children in our area. We are hoping to help develop this project by demonstrating to parents and carers how they can bring the stories to life.

The aim of Fabletales is to advance the education and development of young children with an emphasis on using drama, traditional storytelling, songs, movement and play.

In doing so we seek :

• To promote enjoyment of stories within families
• To improve parents' confidence in creative activities with their children
• To encourage the use of libraries
• To demonstrate how books can be brought to life
• To encourage and develop children's ability to use their imagination
• To promote Story of the Month books and activities

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