What else could happen?
Creeping Toad on tour,
3 - 14th September 2012
what else could go wrong?
what other trick could we play?
what will happen next?
With stories to inspire,
enchant and engage, workshops to captivate, books to make and new adventures to
find, Creeping Toad stories involve participants in worlds of marvel and wonder
and leave people full of words and images and ready for action
“like dogs who need toys to have fun and be
happy, children need fun and to play to be happy. Then we learn well. With
Gordon we play and have fun and learn at the same time”
Year 5 pupil, Runcorn, 2011
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| effective story ideas are absorbing and invite concentration |
Gordon MacLellan –
Creeping Toad – is one of
Britain’s foremost environmental art and education workers…and he tells stories
too!
Between 3rd and 14th
September, 2012 (and again in
November), Gordon will be working
in the Highland area (at least) and is available for a few bookings….
A day’s visit to your school ( or nature reserve or private group or college...I'm versatile!) might include
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| storybuilding using found objects and a few treasures |
storytelling
performances: lasting up to 60 minutes for up to 90 children at a time
stories outside! using the school ground, we’ll take
storymaking out of the classroom and use the immediate environment, the day’s
weather and whatever we can find to shape a set of stories never told before (allow 60 minutes for a
class session)
story and book
workshops: taking a bit longer (allow 90 minutes for a class) as well
as discovering the stories that no-one has ever heard before, now we will build
those into the books that no-one has ever read before and leave the classroom
with a library no-one has ever visited before!
tales of old Scotland:
a collection of stories of Highland folklore and Scottish histories, of heroes
and sorrows, bravery and the magics of sea, mountain and moor
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| storymaking works across ages and continents |
your own themes and
ideas: or are you
exploring a particular theme that you would like to involve some stories in?
pirates….tropical islands….ancient cave people…..where in our school would
bears live?…castle adventures,
have all featured in recent Creeping Toad projects
Charges: £250 a day: includes storyteller’s fee, travel and
materials. Can be paid on the day or I can invoice you
For further information:
visit the Creeping
Toad website at www.creepingtoad.org.uk
creepingtoad@btinternet.com
or by telephone:
landline: 01298 77964
mobile: 07791 096857
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| storymaking invites you to pause and step out of busyness and into a sense of the place |
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