"The Blue Coat" a Jewish folktale as told for preschoolers
Channel: Jenni Cargill-Strong
Date: 2013-10-23

"The Blue Coat" is a Jewish folktale, also called 'The Tailor', which can be told for any age group. Here I am telling it the way I tell it for preschoolers, using a felt board.
It is a beautiful, simple, circle story, which makes it easy to retell and so perfect for beginners. You can simplify it far more and it can still work well. It has many themes which can be explored: growing up, family love, valuing possessions, recycling, dealing with loss, as well as the story of storytelling. 

My telling is closely based on Hugh Lupton's beautiful version. It is included on my award-winning new CD for kids 'Reaching for the Moon'. 

You can find the script the script of my retelling of Blue Coat, at my blog if you scroll down http://storytreeaustralia.blogspot.com.au/2010/10/valentinos-pink-coat-and-folk-tale-blue.html. 
If you would like to learn more about storytelling, you can enrol via the Australian Southern Cross University for the online storytelling Storylines Unit, which I teach through the School of Education. It is open to enrolments from other disciplines and some other universities.

If you would like to buy this story or any of my story albums, go to my website http://www.storytree.com.au/. 

https://youtu.be/PvlURrAB2Os