From: "Fouche" <fouche@zfree.co.nz>
To: <jan.lissens@atek.be>
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 18:20:32 +1200
Subject: Storytelling

Jan wrote

"In order not to break the pace of the story, if you need
more elaborate props, make them beforehand and keep them in an opaque bag or
in a chest. Take them out as they are needed."

I WISH someone had told me that before I tried to tell the story of creation with
balloons in a fifteen minute time slot, and ended up knocking the minister out of
time as I took closer to 40 minutes!  (I know this was not very professional, but
I was very new and WAY too eager to show EVERY figure I knew!)  They were mostly
friends and every kid got a balloon (I didn't know they had such a large kid population
- boy were my fingers sore at the end).  I got mostly positive comments and I appologised
to everyone for the time factor - all very forgiving.  

Getting someone to blow up a giant yellow weather balloon for the sun was a great
idea - waiting for them to finish wasn't!  Then twisting trees, fish, birds, clouds,
stars, animals, etc, and three or four of each... Get the picture???  I preinflated
everything and pretwisted a few (should have been all) so I hate to think what would
have happened if I hadn't even done that!

I'm mentor-less down here (Australia originally, and now New Zealand) so I'm really
appreciating hearing all your helpful stories on this list.  I really wish "TJAM
DOWN UNDER" would happen one day :o)

As it is, I've managed to find one twister from Wellington to come down here to Christchurch
and have a little NZjam all of our own tomorrow.  (Nervous as it's my first one!)


Narelle
aka
Bubbles of Joy


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