Art in Schools & Communities
Family Learning Art & Storytelling activity at Hevingham Primary School, Norfolk

Memory Sticks - a storytelling textile sculpture.

Memory Sticks at Hevingham Primary
08/12/2010
Working with the whole school, one class at a time and with parents, this activity used the story of Three Billy Goats Gruff to devise a visual 'memory-jogger'
Each child had a stick and used scraps of coloured fabric, wool and plastic to remind them of significant stages in the story.
Each child's wrapped 'memory stick' was then made into a 'rope ladder' to become a bright collaborative sculpture.
The rope ladder was then also used as a prop and device to describe the bridge in the story, whereby the children held onto the ladder across the floor of the school hall, and could take part in stepping over 'the Troll Bridge: trip, trap, trip, trap'. This physical, interactive play really engaged the whole class as was evidenced as a method that encouraged reluctant readers to engage with a book.