Creative Resources
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our Creative Resources lending library is closed until 31st August 2020.
Creativity in the Community
The Montgomery Library is home to Stories for the Soul, Godly Play and Storytelling With A Twist's Creative Reminiscence Collection.
Stories for the Soul
Stories for the Soul is a way of providing community, story and creativity for older people and people living with dementia. It's a method of storytelling inspired by Godly Play. The Creative Reminiscence Collection can be used in response time to help people to tell their own story.
To find out more visit Stories for the Soul.
Godly Play
Our lending library hosts the story resources for Godly Play which is an established yet innovative approach to Christian nurture. The style of storytelling encourages people to make meaning for themselves and to connect these stories with personal experience. This empowering method can be used in contexts such as intergenerational worship, schools, chaplaincy, children's work on Sundays, youth groups and adult small groups.
The stories you can borrow are:
The Ark and the Temple |
The Ark and the Tent |
Circle of The Church Year |
The Creation |
The Exodus |
The Faces of Easter |
The Flood and the Ark |
The Good Shepherd and World Communion |
The Great Family |
Jesus and The Twelve |
Jonah, The Backward Prophet |
The Mystery of Christmas |
The Mystery of Easter |
The Mystery of Pentecost |
Parable of the Good Samaritan |
Parable of the Good Shepherd |
Parable of the Great Pearl |
Parable of The Leaven |
Parable of The Mustard Seed |
Parable of the Sower |
The Prophets |
The Story of Job |
The Story of Moses |
The Synagogue and Upper Room |
Ten Best Ways |
To find out more visit Godly Play UK or watch a short video here.
To find out about grants towards training visit Mutual Blessings
Creative Reminiscence Collection
We are the home of Storytelling With A Twist's Creative Reminiscence Collection as part of our lending library. The collection has been specifically designed using objects from the 1940s and 1950s to be used as a resource to support care homes, lunch clubs and day centres, and also as an intergenerational resource for schools.
The 11 themes are:
Women's Beauty – Rollers, makeup, costume jewellery etc
Men's Grooming – Shavers, Bakelite sets, braces etc
Smoking – Cigarette cards, pipes, cigar boxes etc
Washday – Carpet beater, bed warmer, scrubbing brushes etc
Childhood Pastimes – Marbles, books, games etc
Make Do and Mend – Knitting, darning egg, rag rug making tools etc
Cooking and Rationing – Adverts, cooking implements, aprons etc
Medicine – Bottles, remedies, books etc
Courting and Marriage – Jewellery, prayer books, crosses etc
Films and Music – Records, record player, film star books etc
Intergenerational – Jelly moulds, cup and egg game, dolly etc
To find out more about the project, visit Storytelling with a Twist here, or watch this short video
To learn how to become a member of The Montgomery Library and to reserve a box from the collection, please contact us.
Donations
The Creative Reminiscence Collection has been kindly donated by Sheffield Heritage Centre and people living in Sheffield. We are always looking for new items so if you have small items (such as ration cards, photograph and tins) you would like to donate to the collection please contact Carrie Twist on storytellingwithatwist@yahoo.co.uk.