Healing Fairytales: Continue the story

On the bookmark you can find the following elements, referring to:

• Location = brown: forest (1), mushroom (2), village (3), castle (4), mountains (5), cave (6), haunted house (7), palace (8), desert (9), tower (10), gravestone (11), ? (12).
• Hero = green: puss in boots (1), lumberjack (2), knight (3), pirate (4), farm girl and boy (5), Tom Thumb (6), frog (7), princess (8), sultan (9), mermaid (10), Little Red Riding Hood (11), ? (12).
• Friend = blue: gingerbread cookie (1), unicorn (2), fairy (3), grandmother (4), swan (5), hodja (6), lackey (7), camel (8), dwarfs (9), genie (10), dog (11), ? (12).
• Talent = red: running shoes (1), spinning wheel (2), swords (3), bricks and trowel (4), blow-dryer and comb (5), bow and arrow (6), axe (7), microphone (8), climbing gear (9), fishing rod (10), flute (11), ? (12).
• Obstacle/enemy = yellow: fire-breathing dragon (1), wizard (2), giant (3), goblin (4), vampire (5), tornado (6), wolf (7), angry stepsisters (8), lightening (9), witch (10), angry queen (11), ? (12).
• Magical tools = orange: cape (1), ring (2), magic spell book (3), wand (4), potion (5), flying carpet (6), magical lamp (7), kettle (8), rose (9), key (10), mirror (11), ? (12).
• Ending = purple: crown (1), party table (2), rainbow (3), magical transformation (4), hot air balloon (5), medal (6), gift (7), leaving for adventure (8), love (9), treasure chest (10), group hug (11), ? (12).

The following games can also be played with this educational poster:

• Healing Fairytales: My Secret Weapon
• Healing Fairytales: Create your own fairytale

This game is part of the toolkit ‘Facing trauma - A toolkit on trauma-informed support for children and youth’. This toolkit is a cooperation between StreetSmart, Minor-Ndako, Save the Children Romania & SolidarityNow, cofinanced by the European Union. It provides simple tools to explore important topics like trauma, stress, self-care and emotions in a way that’s easy to use with different target groups.

• After the group chose the elements, you could create a roleplay and perform your story.
• The players can draw the story, create a comic, or even create a little fairy book writing the story and drawing relatable pictures.
• If you play with a big group, you can play the game in pairs, so each pair can decide an element every time or you can add more than one element from some categories (ex. More than one friend, or/and villains, or/and talents, etc.).
• In a big group, you could also decide the elements together, without already narrating the story. Once the elements are picked, create smaller groups. Now each group must come up with a story based on the chosen elements. Afterwards, each group shares their story with the others.
• Give each player a number. Throw the die/dice and let this decide which player has to narrate which part/element of the story.

Looking for more ways to use this panel? Discover the alternative game variations here:

• Healing Fairytales: Create your own fairytale - StreetSmart Play
• Healing Fairytales: My Secret Weapon - StreetSmart Play

Healing through storytelling