Fairy Tales Made From Drawings: Toddlers’ Creative Stories

Eleni Ilia

(University of Athens, Greece)

Abstract: The paper presents the narration of original tales by toddlers in the context of animating educational activities, which unfold in the school classroom. The process of producing toddlers’ fairy tales begins with questions asked by the teacher and develops according to the principle of declining guidance. Toddlers narratives are recorded and used in many ways. The children’s texts presented in the results, are collected by the techniques of random sampling in groups. These are four individual and four group children’s texts, stimulated to produce toddlers’ drawings. As toddlers enjoy the experience of manifesting their creativity, their inexhaustible imagination and familiarity with the features of the fairy tale emerges. The dominant magical element in the fairy tale is responsible for the fascinating plot in the toddlers’ narratives and for the happy ending of each adventure, expressing their optimistic nature and their desire for reward and justification of the heroes.