If you're interested in incorporating story workshop into your writing
lessons, you'll be needing a stock of open-ended materials, or loose
parts, that students can manipulate as well as use to represent
different aspects of their stories in as many different ways as
possible. Here are 30 ideas of materials to get you started:
- Glass marbles, round and flat
- Playdoh
- Pine cones
- Small sticks
- Bark chips
- Various fabric squares
- Fake flowers (detached from wire stems)
- Small plastic animals or play figures
- Various types of blocks
- Toilet paper rolls
- Small stones
- Seashells
- Buckeyes and acorns
- Buttons
- Beads
- Various types of paints
- Small containers
- Lincoln Logs
- Straws
- Sand
- Plastic and wooden spools
- Corks
- Fabric place mats (great for representing landscapes as a story's setting)
- Round clothespins
- Popsicle sticks
- Pom-poms
- Pipe cleaners
- Foam shape cutouts
- Leaves
- Wikki Stix
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