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You can 'right click' on each image, copy and paste, adjust to the size wanted and print. 

Then colour them in like the character pictures on the website or using your own ideas. They can be made into standable characters for bible story scenes and storytelling.

A great story to tell using Storystack characters - minimal props needed (maybe just a scenery backdrop)

Jesus visits Matthew and then has a meal with him causing a stir among the Pharisees.

3 minute video storytelling of Matthew 9:9-13

A storytelling for Palm Sunday using Storystack characters 

Teaching the life of Jesus - bible stories suitable for KS1 age - can be read or made interactive using character figures (available at www.storystack.co.uk). Free downloadable craft activities and stories on the website Blog.

An idea for your nativity - a different scene each week in the build-up to Christmas:

The angel bringing the message to Mary and/or Joseph

Mary and Joseph on their way to Bethlehem

The innkeeper showing Mary and Joseph to the stable

The shepherds going from the fields to visit the baby Jesus

The wise men travelling from the East towards Bethlehem, following the star

These scenes provide opportunities for the children to make donkeys, sheep and camels (templates provided) or stars.

To use the templates - right click on picture wanted and then click on 'Open image in new tab'.

Each child can make a Storystack of themself after the reading of this passage to place around the Storystacks of Jesus and the apostles. The template provided can be opened in a new tab and prints 2 per A4 sheet of card to save resources. It can be designed and coloured in as the child choses. There is also a link on the website along with an adult-sized version.

Click on the heading 'Pentecost' and you will find some downloadable pages.

An idea for Easter in school - just a set of Storystack charcters needed, very little preparation.

Telling the story of Philip and the Ethiopian and explaining some facts about Christian baptism.

Using Storystack characters.

A great add-on craft would be to make the chariot!

RE ‘syllabuses’ vary enormously from one education authority to the next but there are some shared key areas and attainment targets.

What is special to me, my family, my community and others (stories, celebrations, values, places) are themes that have meaning for most children.

Bible storytelling with Storystack characters can be used to start a discussion about old and new testament characters (e.g. Moses, Abraham, Esther) as well as Jesus and his disciples, about festivals, celebrations and rites of passage (e.g. Passover, Christmas, Easter, baptism) and about values (e.g. the good Samaritan, Zaccheus).

Interactive storytelling – the stories can be varied, with the children taking responsibility for a character’s movements or speech or with whole group involvement in response to certain planned cues.

Storytelling can be followed by re-telling by the children in their own play time to encourage skills of listening, memory, sequencing, group play and communication.

Questioning can be encouraged after the telling of a story - suggesting that the children think of a question that they would like to ask one of the characters.

Craft can be based on a story – either making some scenery to enhance the storytelling or making a ‘Storystack’ figure of themselves from card and being in the crowd, involved in the story that way.

I have received these lovely photos. Look at the wonderful craft ideas. The painted stones are such a great idea.

Thank you, Sarah.

An amateur video where the children are the stars

Luke 14

I am grateful to this customer for some helpful and encouraging feedback. She bought a set of Storystack characters for the toddler group and this was the feedback from one of the group leaders after their first use.....

A new printable story - The Rich Young Man (Matthew 19:16-26 and Luke 18:18-27)

Thank you to Godventure.co.uk for a helpful review

View our example story.

Make our crown to add a sparkle to your stories!

A video: The Good Samaritan story, told with Storystack characters.

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