Join our StoryPlay team for playful creative sessions that encourage literacy and provide opportunities for families with young children to create and socialise with a special focus on greening.

StoryPlay is aimed at dads, mums and carers with children aged 2-5.

Come along for all the fun, games and friendship we know you expect!

 

UPCOMING EVENTS

Sun 25 May

I drink the sun, but bees drink me; I can float on water, but shadows shrink me. Find me up high AND down low, in every colour of the rainbow. What am I? 
Join storyteller Laura Sampson to celebrate the colour and joy of flowers!  Hear flower stories, sing flower songs, and make a flower garden of your very own.
PAST EVENTS

Sun 4 May

In every seed there is a story.  Join Arianne Carless-Lock and Diana Redgrave this May to share stories, songs and seeds and find out how we can reuse everyday items to get growing at home.

Sun 6 Apr

One potato, two potato, three potato, four! Join Maryam Noorhimli and Diana Redgrave this April to enjoy songs and stories and find out what can be done with a humble potato.

Sun 2 Mar

This March join the StoryPlay team to celebrate the beginning of Spring by enjoying stories and songs about growing. Come and play and start to grow a plant of your own!

Sun 12 Jan

Come and meet the underground farmers this January with Diana Redgrave, as we tunnel our way into the new year.  Help shape our own story and make your own worm puppets in this wriggly session for our youngest visitors.

Sun 2 Feb

To celebrate National Storytelling Week, join us for a natural storytelling journey into the garden. Laura Sampson and Diana Redgrave will spin stories and songs of spiders and other beneficial creatures that share our outdoor spaces. Together we will learn ways to make them feel welcome, with a craft to take home.

 

BEING ABLE TO ENGAGE A LARGE GROUP OF CHILDREN IS A REAL SKILL. THE STORYPLAY LEADERS ARE AN INSPIRATION!
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THE STORYPLAY TEAM
Diana Redgrave is a storyteller, performer, writer, and primary school teacher, specialising in Early Years Education. She has performed solo story telling shows for families and has collaborated with the Millbrook Piano Trio to perform at the Patsy Wood Family Prom in Oxford. She works as a Story Builder at Discover Children’s Story Centre, and as a learning officer in a local Kent museum. She began working on StoryPlay in the virtual world in 2020.

Laura Sampson is a storyteller and writer of British-Trinidadian heritage. For family audiences, she has worked with V&A Museums, National Trust, Polka Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith and Discover Children’s Story Centre. Her first story collection, Enchanted Tales, was published in 2023, with a second, Mythical Tales, due in late 2025.

If you have any access requirements, please contact our box office team on 020 7613 7498 or email