Here’s what you’ll need:
- One brightly colored scarf
- The Black Snowman
Author: Phil Mendez
Illustrator: Carole Byard
Publisher: Scholastic
Here’s what you do:
- Invite your family to sit down on the floor in a circle. Put the scarf loosely around your neck and read The Black Snowman to them.
- Explain to your family that they are going to pretend that the scarf you are wearing is a magical kente.
- Tell your family that they are going to tell an oral story together. The only rules for this activity is that the person wearing the scarf is the only one allowed to talk, and nobody is allowed to make fun of anyone in the circle.
- Since you are wearing the scarf, you start the story.
- After telling a few sentences of a story, take the scarf off and hand it to the person next to you in the circle and ask her to put the scarf loosely around her neck.
- Ask that person to continue the story once the scarf is around her neck.
- Once that person has continued a few sentences in the story, ask her to take the scarf off and hand it to the next person and so on.
- The last person in the circle to wear the scarf has to come up with an ending to the story.
Skill: Oral story telling
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