Art Activity: imagining, planning and drawing complex imaginary worlds
This art activity by Olivia Joyce is built around 8-year-old Li Lingfei's Artist's Portfolio, published in Stone Soup’s March 2018 ...
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Writing Activity: Stories about trust, truth and lying
This writing activity is based on two stories published in the May/June 1994 issue of Stone Soup: "The Mother's Day ...
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Writing Activity: plot a story on a graph with the brilliant, funny “Shapes of Stories” talk by Kurt Vonnegut
This writing activity is based on a very funny Kurt Vonnegut lecture on the shape of stories. In this project, ...
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Writing Activity: developing character and perspective with character sketches
This writing activity is built around 11-year-old Ella Staats' story, "My Mother's Little Girl'" published in Stone Soup in September/October ...
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Writing Activity: novels in the form of letters, inspired by Jane Austen’s childhood writing
Jane Austen (1775-1817) is one of the the greatest novelists to have written in English. Her novels are still widely ...
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Writing Activity: working with stream of consciousness
Stream of consciousness can be an effective writing style to use when you have a character who sees and thinks ...
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