Hero Workshops

These two workshops took two days and involved making our own fairy tales stories, books, sculptures and films! Can you imagine the amount of art work we made? We spent all the time working in the playground as in the day time it is very sunny here. I wonder if the schools in England have found where the Life Vision Academy is. Try using the maps on the internet, here are some clues: Bhatapur, Gatthagar and Kaushaltar. Maybe you could email me a picture of what you find (andy@yetifairytales.com).
The children here had done lots of drawings while I was away writing on the website. Doing creative art at school is very new for them so they have started by coping pictures from their own story books. They books have stories from all over the world including England. There were stories like Red Riding Hood, Pooh Bear and Peter Pan. I hope you are enjoying the books on the book shelves and the books that Seven Stories have sent you to read in class. I look forward to seeing your articles about them on the website. I also look forward to reading more of your own creative stories; I will probably have to read them by candle light as there are lots of power cuts here (14 hours a day!). can you imagine what that would be like in England?

The children designed their stories around six main parts. A hero, villain, saviour, magic creature, a map and a mystery (the last one with their eyes closed). I wonder if the children back in England can remember similar pictures and sculptures they made. Ask your teachers or take a look in the galleries on the website if you have forgotten.

After making our own stories we divided into groups with the seniors deciding one story each and making a sculpture of the most important part of the story.

Most of the stories were in Nepalese so the groups spent a long time translating them into English. It would be great if the students back in England could translate their stories into Nepalese so I can read them to people here in their language. Don’t panic! The stories were very short, only one page long.

Some of the tales were very inventive and reminded me of fairy tales I have hunted for before. Can you remember a story with a face with no-body like the one below? I think it involved a magical cat up a tree.

Some of the stories were very scary, just like some of the fairy tales I have found before. There were great battles, lost princesses and giants who were sometimes said because no-one liked them anymore.

All of the stories finished with happy endings and we all learnt amazing things about how humans grow up.

The pictures below are of the groups presenting their stories to the rest of the school. Each story was supposed to last for one minute, so I could video them, but the stories were so full of adventure that they went on, and on and on! Some times for ten minutes. Look out for the videos on the website as the school practices them while I am away in the mountains. They children have given me a mission and a place to go to, so look out for future article sand blogs about my hunting adventures.