Ways to Play: Create

Using your imagination and items from South Shields Museum & Art Gallery create your own wonderful, original stories.

Take a look at the pictures below and arrange them in the order you would like to use them to make up your story.  Experiment telling and/or writing a story with one, two, three or all of the pictures shown.

Imagine the actions, reactions, and situations of your characters and the smells, sounds, feelings, touch and taste in the art and objects to create as detailed a story as possible.

When you are finished you can: 

  • Give your story a title 
  • Share it with your family and friends 
  • Design a cover to staple on to the page(s) and make a book 
  • Make a story board or comic book version of your story 
  • Write a sequel and build on what you have already created!

PLAY +

Act your story out with props, costumes or puppets! 

We'd love it if you shared photographs of your pretend worlds on our social media channels - FacebookTwitterInstagram.


Miss Amy C. Flagg, local historian and photographer
Miss Amy C. Flagg, local historian and photographer
Decorated hen's egg, painted with orange and green patterns.
Decorated hen's egg, painted with orange and green patterns.
South Shields town hall
South Shields town hall
A pair of roller skates from the 1920s
A pair of roller skates from the 1920s