Lincolnshire Folk Tales Project

Storytelling Toolkit

The exercises in this pack can be applied to any traditional story and used to encourage creativity through oral storytelling.

They are drawn from young storytellers’ sessions led by storyteller Pyn Stockman for Adverse Camber as part of the AHRC ‘Lincolnshire Folk Tales: Origins, Legacies, Connections, Futures’ project. Stockman, and Adverse Camber, developed the pack in 2025 as part of this project.

The primary aim of the pack is to encourage the development of oral storytelling for children, and to help teachers and facilitators to do this with ease. It aims to support pupils to improve confidence, build their skills in storytelling techniques, literacy, communication and performance, and develop their social skills in working collaboratively. We hope it will also contribute to positive mental health and wellbeing, and pride in place, and will help to develop the next generation of storytellers!

Please use and share this resource as you see fit.

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● About the project

‘Lincolnshire Folk Tales: Origins, Legacies, Connections, Futures’ is a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (grant number AH/Y003225/1), and is led by Dr Rory Waterman and the Research Fellow Dr Anna Milon in the School of Arts and Humanities at Nottingham Trent University. The project explores the origins, legacies, intertextual and social connections and futures of Lincolnshire folk tales (LFTs), and is intended to facilitate wider engagement with this heritage from writers, the general public, and scholars.

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