Displaying items by tag: myths and legends

These image-only ‘Storytelling prompts’ for The terrible tale of the Lambton Worm are the perfect accompaniment to your storytelling lessons. 

The excitement and adventure you feel while immersing yourself in myths and legends just doesn’t happen in this day and age – or does it?

There are many ways to retell stories, but there’s something about taking it outside that adds an extra dimension of excitement for both the audience and the performers.

Poet and performer Joshua Seigal shows how poetry can be used to explore myths and legends in a dynamic and creative way.

Maths teacher, Antonia Peters sets out to solve the growing problem of the Lambton Worm and shares some fun ideas linked to 2D and 3D shapes.

Collect your single socks, get your glue gun at the ready and create your very own Lambton Worm hand puppet.

Creating a book trailer is a great way to pique interest in books and here you'll find all the tools you need to make one for our Myths and Legends story.

Poet and writer Heather Harrison started to write stories early in life and continued throughout her career as a teacher. She talks to us about her inspiration for the retelling of the Lambton Worm.

With just a few geographical and historical investigations you could soon be creating your own myths, legends and folktales.

Tony Wilson puts the record straight about myths and legends, and shows us some practical approaches for using them to develop creative writing in class.