How well do you remember those old fairy tales that were read to you when you were a child? Or that you read to your own children? Do you remember how the witch enticed Hansel and Gretel into her gingerbread house that became a prison? Who the prince had to fight to get to Sleeping Beauty? What instrument played music that soothed the giant who lived at the top of Jack’s beanstalk?
This Sunday, you’ll get a chance to test your memories and play like a child again at the TLE Educational Network’s StoryBook Land Treasure Hunt in Second Life!
I’ve spent lots of fun hours the past couple of weeks helping one of TLE’s managers, AmandaLyn Donogal, devise a playful and rewarding trip through these old tales via the treasure hunt, which will start on Sunday, June 28, at 11 a.m. SLT (Pacific time) at TLE StoryBook Land, one of the many delightful builds you can explore at this extensive virtual education campus in SL.
The treasure hunt is part of a larger celebration of children’s literature that TLE is hosting this weekend at StoryBook Land. The event includes storytellers dressed in costumes reading several of these old fairy tales. You can sit on a mushroom and listen to the stories, surrounded by 3D scenes from those very stories – watch a virtual wolf stalk Red Riding Hood’s grandmother’s cottage as you listen to a lively retelling of the story, for example!
After the storytelling, which starts at 11 a.m. SLT, there’ll be music for listening and dancing to alongside the old cottages and castles, pumpkins and magic mushrooms, and bears and birds that fill StoryBook Land with countless reminders of the magic and wonder of childhood.
And of course, the event and its exhibits are all free and open to every Second Life resident – just like all of the classes, programs, and interactive exhibits at the TLE Educational Network!
While you’re at StoryBook Land, go for a ride with Cinderella in her carriage!
But back to the treasure hunt: AmandaLyn and I were like little kids as we explored the many storybook settings to find places to hide clues that will eventually lead treasure-hunters to the big prize at the end. “Master Cluewriter” AmandaLyn wrote up fun little rhyming verses that contain the clues for you to decipher. They’re not hard – you just have to think back to whatever fairytale they reference, and find the items from that story that hold the clue. Although the biggest prize awaits you at the end of the hunt, you’ll also get rewarded with playful prizes whenever you find a clue.
The treasure hunt will also give you a chance to explore the story settings and even make believe you’re one of the characters. For example, can you climb Jack’s beanstalk all the way up into the clouds? Can you sit on the mushroom from Alice In Wonderland without falling off?
StoryBook Land came about when the TLE Publishing House decided to promote children’s literature by publishing many of the old fairytales and children’s stories in their original version, including the original illustrations used. TLE Publishing, which is a key part of the overall virtual education network TLE has created in Second Life, has published 16 of these books, all of which are available for a small fee (to cover the cost of uploading the text and images to SL) at StoryBook Land, as well as the TLE Main Bookstore. The titles (which are also available at the TLE Web Bookstore in PDF format) include:
- Alice In Wonderland
- Beauty And The Beast
- Cinderella
- Goldilocks And The Three Bears
- Hansel And Gretel
- Jack And The Beanstalk
- Little Red Riding Hood
- Nursery Rhymes of Mother Goose
- Nursery Songs
- Old Mother Hubbard
- Peter Rabbit
- Puss In Boots
- Sleeping Beauty
- Snow White
- The Snow Queen
- Tom Thumb
So, forget about all your adult worries and come play like a kid again – hunt for treasure, listen to fairytales, dance to music that will bring out your inner child, and jump into the stories themselves – at the TLE Storybook Land celebration on Sunday, June 28, starting at 11 a.m. Second Life Time. As AmandaLyn and I have discovered lately, play and laughter are medicine for the soul – especially in these crazy times in real life.
To get to StoryBook Land in SL:
- Use this SLURL for a direct teleport: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Makani%20Cove/145/36/22
- Or, go to the TLE Main Campus, where you’ll find a teleporter that will take you directly to StoryBook Land.
See you there!
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