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Use this TabStart page to explore a curated collection of the best websites online that allow you to make your own fairy tales. The resources here provide fun online tools in which you can input names, story developments, and endings to create fractured fairy tales that are all your own. You can select from a number of classic fairy tales, like Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood, to tell your unique story. Also, don't miss the pages below that offer advice for writing your own fairy tales from scratch.
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Make Your Own Fairytale Using a Generator - The Brown University website features a fairytale generator that allows you to select certain folk themes (such as 'villainy,' 'rescue,' 'struggle,' and 'guidance') and folk story presets (such as Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, and Snow White), and the generator produces a unique story. This concept is based on the theories of Russian scholar Vladimir Propp.
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Make (Remix) Your Own Fairytale - This is a fun page that kids will enjoy. This tool allows you to select certain basic fairytales, like The Gingerbread Man and Little Red Riding Hood, and it prompts you to fill in the blanks of the story with the words of your choosing. Simply click on your word and drag it into the text of the story.
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Once Upon a Time... Make Your Own Fairy Tale - The website of We Tell Stories, the digital fiction division of Penguin, offers a very cool online resource that allows you to make your own fairy tale. At certain points of the story, you are asked to provide characters' names, the characteristics of certain events, and even an ending. This is a fun tool that kids will love.
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How to Make Your Own Fractured Fairy Tale - This amusing online tool from the Read Write Think website allows you to make your own fractured fairy tale. Choose between Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, and The Princess and the Pea and then enter characters' names and story developments.
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Folktale Writer's Workshop: How to Write a Folk Tale - This article takes you through the process of drafting an idea for a fairy tale, beginning to write it, and finishing your story. This is a clear and concise article that will help you in the different phases of crafting your own fairy tale.
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Classroom Activity on Writing Your Own Fairytale - This is another outstanding resource that will help you create your own fairytale. This website offers a number of fairy tales that you can read online, and as you read them there is a chart here where you can log recurring fairy tale themes, such as honesty, jealousy, transformation. Then, using the identified themes, you can begin to write your own fairy tale.
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Scholastic Interview with Retold Fairy Tale Writer - In this Scholastic interview with Mary Pope Osbourne, the author discusses her love of fairy tales, and she offers advice for writing your own fairy tale.