Nature Inspired Storytelling & Story Making Workshop 3 Part Series (may be booked as individual sessions at $75 each).

Learn more about nurturing children's connection to nature. Discover practical tools and ideas to integrate nature play into your program. Join Tania Moloney from Nurture in Nature Australia as she shares her top tips and tools for nature-inspired storytelling.
Nature Inspired Storytelling: Top Tips & Tools for Telling Terrific Tales.
This session will explore the power of using books and storytelling as springboards to enrich and engage nature play and outdoor learning opportunities.  
We’ll look at what and “who” is on your bookshelf and why that’s important, and Tania will share her Top 5 Storytelling Tools to help participants to grow their skills and confidence as natural storytellers.  
Participants will take home ideas and inspiration for storytelling strategies that they can implement into their programs right away. 
 
Stonework Play
Stonework Play connects participants with nature, creative expression, art and storytelling, using stones as the medium.  This hands-on, interactive session inspires creative and meaningful engagement with nature. It encourages self-directed learning, teaches critical thinking skills, and provides opportunity for sustained and purposeful effort. It is also an innovative and engaging tool in supporting and developing social and emotional and language and literacy skills.
Participants will be guided through a 5 Step process of: 
 
1. GATHERING their chosen stones 
2. CONSTRUCTING their stone creation 
3. RENDERING (drawing) their work on paper 
4. NARRATING (writing) what they have done in story form  
5. SHARING their stories and experience with the group. 
 This workshop includes an interactive discussion on ideas and application in Early Years settings.
 
Clay Characters & Storylines
In this fun, hands on and very interactive session, participants switch on their imaginations to create clay creatures and gather ideas and inspiration from the natural world to become ‘Story Makers’. 
Clay
  • Participants will play and work with clay to create their own unique creature from clay and natural loose parts.  
  • During this session we’ll discuss the benefits of clay play for little fingers and minds and messaging is included about conscious and sustainable gathering of natural materials or utilising natural resources that educators already have in their settings. 
 Storylines
  • Participants will be introduced to a
  •  number of story-making ideas and strategies that they can use and further develop with children in their settings. 
  • They will then work in small groups (breakout rooms) as story-makers, taking their Clay Creatures on a nature story journey. 
  • Groups will document their stories through writing, oral storytelling (and will be guided in how to do so in a digital format also).  
  • Small groups will share their stories and experiences with the wider group 
  • No future dates available.