Adventure Story telling is a new name for a favorite activity I
grew up with and use all the time. In my recent interview with
Bruce, author of Kids homeschool RPG, he recalled how his kids’
first introduction to Role Playing games was through Adventure
stories he used to tell them. I have never heard the term
“Adventure Stories” before but the concept is a familiar friend.
An “Adventure Story” is an interactive story where a storyteller
sets the stage and weaves listeners’ feedback into the story,
and often the listeners become characters in the story
themselves. When my sister and I were little, my parents used to
weave stories with us based on the wood faeries and water
sprites that lived in the forest around our cabin. As a result,
walks and hikes in the forest were like our very own real-life
Adventure Story, making them much more interesting and exciting.
I frequently use adventure story when teaching, it really helps
involve students, even the shy ones. They are also very useful
to distract children wh