To celebrate National Storytelling Week (UK) 29th Jan – 2nd Feb 2019 we are giving away a Free “Let’s Go Outside with Forest Fairies” – Storytelling Set.
Enter to win the Forest Fairies Storytelling Set by leaving a message below sharing with us what you love about fairies or storytelling.
What is the “Let’s Go Outside with Forest Fairies” – Storytelling Set? We provide a small handmade canvas bag containing Lucy the Bird Keeper Forest Fairy
and Flint the Dragonfly Boy Fairy plus a small blank journal and pencil.
Storytelling with the Forest Fairies
A magical and enchanting way for young children to explore imaginative play outdoors in nature. This simple, fun activity encourages storytelling both orally and through simple pencil drawings.
Let’s Go Outside with Lucy and Flint
Each child in the class gets the opportunity to take the forest fairies home for 2 days. They have to look after Flint and Nika and are encouraged to take them outdoors to play (this can be as long or as short a time as they wish): in their own backyard, a local park, a walk around the neighbourhood, a visit to a relative or friend’s backyard, walking home from school etc, etc..
Build a fairy home; play fairy tag; hide and seek; if you have snow maybe the fairies would appreciate an igloo?
After spending time outdoors the child is invited to record his/her adventures with the forest fairies through simple pencil drawings in the blank journal provided. Returning the bag with the dolls and journal to the preschool, library or school the following day. The student is then invited to share orally their adventures with the class or teacher if she/he so wishes.
Good Luck! Winner will be announced on 25th January 2019
The Let’s Go Outside with Forest Fairies Storytelling Sets are available to preschools, kindergartens, grades 1 and 2 and Libraries or parents/grandparents. You can also purchase the individual fairies here too : SHOP
“I have the whole collection of Humbug Fairy Dolls including Dragon Boy and find this an amazing resource in my nature studies with children. I would highly recommend these dolls to both parents with young children and teachers.” – Nancy O’Neil – Kindergarten Teacher, BC
Remember to leave a message below for your chance to win the Free Storytelling Set. Wishing you all a magical and enchanting week ahead, with love and gratitude Marghanita x
Stories brings children’s imagination and creativity to life. Reading stories provides the most wonderful thoughts and feelings and removes the ceiling of restrictions that too often are placed on all of us. Nothing is wrong and nothing is right, it’s individual to each and every child.
I love how fairies and stories take us to another world and our imagination takes off 🙂 my daughter would adore one of these dolls 🙂
Love love love Marghanita”s storytelling skills with nature and the fairy dolls. I have taken her nature course and it is amazing!
Fairies take us into a magical world of imaginary places and creatures. Places where anything is possible and anything can happen. Places where little people can have adventures and meet mystical characters. There is no limit to our imagination when fairies join us on our journeys.
Storytelling has always been an important aspect to humanity, sharing from generation to generation but I have always loved fairies, hence my first tattoo. Fairies remind me of the magical connection we humans have with nature and animals. I am an avid tree-hugger. Fairies help inspire us to see and appreciate the beauty all around us (which they call home). They encourage light-hearted playfulness as they flit and flutter from flower to flower. Who better than fairies to spark the imagination? Toadstools as homes, flowers as hats, leaves as skirts, birds as friends or even transportation, need I go on? Fairies with their wings remind us that we are never stuck and that we can always rise (or fly!) above a situation to see it from a different perspective. As an educator working with children, the possibilities are as endless as a fairies imagination ♡
The expressions on my children’s faces when weaving tales of fairy magic and woodland elves is so precious and will stay in my heart forever. Beyond thrilled to be a link in this age old tradition that is so present and connected. Thank you for keeping the magic alive in such an authentic, beautiful and wonderfilled way. Love and light xxx
I love both fairies and storytelling because they are magical and allow the children’s imaginations to soar!
I love fairies ♀️♂️ especially mischievous Tink (my nickname) & books are my go to escape. To combine the both is storytelling magic! This giveaway would be amazing in my work with the groups of children who need a little more nurturing because they struggle with the day to day, for various reasons
Storytelling is becoming a lost art. The Fairies would be such s lovely addition to the child and family forest program I run. Together families and fairies can create stories togethe whiler connecting them with nature.
These are wonderful! I haven’t done anything with fairies with my kids yet, so this would be an amazing start.
Fairies just bring magic to the forest and help make children’s imagations go wild. Fairies and make believe are what makes special childhood memories.
Stories provide opportunities to share history and imagination. When combined with fairies a child creates their own story as they create a pretend world in nature with their fairy. If I should win, the fairy will be given to a child in need in Baltimore City.
Storytelling is great for little imaginations! Children can create their own worlds and creatures and just be themselves! These fairies would be a great tool to use to spark creativity to get a storytelling session started! Thanks for the opportunity to win them!
To have the capacity to store a story in your heart that can grow and bend and be woven from a combination of life experiences and imaginings is one of the most quintessential aspects of being human. Creating through words and symbols helps us to make sense of the world and keeps the joy alive for us all no matter if we are the creator or the audience!
I love the open end ness of storytelling with prompted text or pictures. The magic places you can go, the language, questions, imagination and possibilities. So many possiblities with beautiful props and an active imagination.
The thing I love about stories in the woodlands is that no matter what age the children are their imagination takes over. Older children given an opportunity to create a fairy house and play for hours is lovely.
I would love this for the children i look after. They have special needs but all of them love exploring the garden and they love stories even more so and what better way to bring the story to life than with these magical fairies. I have always believed in fairies since i was little and love any opportunity to be out in nature in the hope to spot one. Desperately hoping I’m lucky enough to win, thankyou for the chance
My Grandmother introduced me to story telling; and to fairies. Now I have the privilege to do the same to my grand children. This story telling set would be the “ultimate” in props for enhancing storytelling in the out doors (and snug inside in inclement weather or at night.
Thank you all for your wonderful comments- it makes my heart sing to know there are so many fairy lovers out there – sharing the wonders of the natural world and all its enchanting magic! I wish you could all take away some fairies for the children in your lives…
The winner is: Sheri-Anne Harrison – you will be notified by email.
To all others: If you run a preschool or kindergarten or a teacher for a grade one class and would like to receive one of the “Let’s Go Outside with Flint and Nika” sets – and are prepared to pay for the postage and packaging I will be happy to send on a set in return for some documented experiences.