Sometimes it may seem to caring parents that their little child is bored when they read him at night. And it’s not so important, this folk tale is a Russian folk tale or the fruit of the work of the famous Brothers Grimm, anyway the baby is bored. In this case, the question arises for caring parents: "How to compose a fairy tale on your own to captivate the child before bedtime?" And how to come up with something worthwhile when it comes to mind about a cramped teremok and a sleeping beauty, it is not clear.
How to come up with an original fairy tale
And if parents cannot master the art of composing fairy tales, what should I do? Let's try to figure it out. There are several ways to create a fairy tale yourself, and with their help, new ideas will appear in your head. So, if there are no thoughts about the future magical story, then use these tips.
You can “distort” a fairy tale already known to the child. For example, send Cinderella not to the beautiful Prince for a ball, but on a trip around the world, where she will meet her lover.
To make a familiar fairy tale "a vice versa." Suppose a sly red-headed Fox makes friends with a Kolobok, or let Beauty find a way to wake the Sleeping Prince, who managed to prick himself with an arrow during the hunt.
Another option is to continue the already completed tale. You can take the same Cinderella and describe her life with the Prince, come up with new adventures for her sisters and the evil stepmother.
You can also mix two or more tales: describe the friendship of the wooden boy Pinocchio and Little Red Riding Hood, talk about their escape from the terrible Ogre and meeting with the Cat in boots.
And the last way that will help you understand the difficult question of “how to compose a fairy tale” (perhaps the easiest of all). You can simply transfer the heroes of your work in our time. Let’s realize the idea of how Thumbelina will behave, being in a world full of cars and other cars terrible for her.
Perhaps, when remaking old familiar fairy tales, you will be visited by new, no less interesting ideas.
Features of the genre
Before you compose your own tale, you should understand what are the features of this genre, what features of such works are common. Of course, you can not write according to plan, but in this case it is not a fact that the child will appreciate the fruit of your imagination. Still, it’s better to stick to old proven truths.
Firstly, there is always a happy ending in a fairy tale. It may not be so in real life, but you want to learn the science of how to compose a fairy tale (magical, by the way). Therefore, you need to remember: in a fantastic reality, everything always ends well, and bad heroes either lose to positive characters and leave forever, or they take the true path and change for the better.
Secondly, it is necessary to raise a certain problem in a fairy tale, to make it moral. For example, to show that due to the fact that the hero deceived his friends many times, he lost them all. Or to describe a situation similar to the scene from the Golden Key, in which Pinocchio so easily believes a lying cat and a fox that it does not end well for him.
Thirdly, elements of magic are needed. This is a fairy tale after all. You can come up with some mythical creatures, talking animals, magical household items will also be out of place. For example, let the talking cat be a friend and adviser to the protagonist. And an enchanted ball of thread will show him the way to the goal.
Well, it is also desirable for the protagonist to have a faithful assistant who will always give wise advice, or better, two such friends. After all, three is a magic number, which means that the fairy tale will become even more magical. Well, all the events need to be described in colorful, vibrant language. Successful comparative turns, hyperbolas, metaphors and epithets will cause admiration in the child.
Tale for the smallest
If your child is small and does not want to listen to big interesting tales, you can compose a short magical story, only a few sentences long. In order to understand how to compose a small, but interesting tale, one thing needs to be clarified. In these stories, ordinary objects and phenomena are magical. For example, you can tell a kid about the journey of his favorite toy into a noisy courtyard or about the life of a blue pencil in a box with eleven brothers. Later, when the child grows up, you can enlarge the little fairy tale, adding to it some more events and details. Or even create a whole cycle about the teddy bear’s travels and every night tell the baby a new story about a soft favorite for the night. Then the child will not be bored, he will fall asleep faster at night and give parents some free time for themselves. And such tales will become a very pleasant tradition and will remain in the memories of your child for life. Perhaps for his children he will also come up with small stories about toys.
How to describe an animal in a fairy tale
Before you compose a fairy tale about animals, you need to think carefully. Where to begin? You should come up with an animal and endow it with appropriate signs. For example, an owl will be wise and a little grouchy, and a donkey will become an identification of stupidity. Animals should be endowed with the qualities of people carefully, because in most fairy tales the same representatives of the animal world have the same character traits. In addition, it is advisable to consider all the motives of the animals, as well as their appearance. Suppose you assign glasses to the same owl, and the piglet - funny jumpsuit as a funny joker.
Errors of beginner storytellers
Unfortunately, the first experience is not always successful. Therefore, it is better to parse the most common mistakes of parents who seek to compose a fairy tale for the first time.
Great tale, but without a plan. Due to the lack of an initial plan, even the simplest, it is very easy to get confused and write too much. Creating a fairy tale structure is not so difficult, and following it is even easier.
A meaningless story. The lack of morality in fairy tales is often incomprehensible, because they are designed to teach children, and in a form that is not boring for them. If history has no purpose but to entertain the child, then nothing good will come of it.
The opposite of the previous problem is too instructive. When, apart from the words about what is good and what is bad, nothing is heard in the work, it will become uninteresting and will not “hook” the child at all. Everything should be in moderation.
Conclusion
If you believe in yourself and adhere to the tips described in this article, then there will be no doubt about how to compose a fairy tale that is interesting specifically for your child. After all, you, like no one else, know what is interesting for your baby and what will conquer it from the first sentence.