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FAIRYTALE CASTLE

Everything for Children

The Fairytale Castle shows that another world is possible with fairy tales. Creative thinking, imagination, problem-solving skills, equality and the pursuit of justice come out of fairy tales and touch the real world. Children and adults discover their own distinctness and build new realities for the highest good of all, thanks to the unique teaching approaches and contents of Fairytale Castle.

Overview

Information on this page is provided by the innovator and has not been evaluated by HundrED.

Web presence

2014

Established

3.45M

Children

3

Countries
Target group
All
Updated
October 2022
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”

About the innovation

Why did you create this innovation?

Every child has an imagination and creativity. Appropriate environments that allow for the development of imagination and creativity also allow for the expansion of these boundaries and the development of innovative, problem-solving, creative and critical thinking individuals. Fairy Tale Castle creates a suitable environment for children to reveal this potential at an early stage.

What does your innovation look like in practice?

The Fairy Tale Castle, located in Park of 400,000 m², creates a tourism potential with its 26 towers, different concept areas and fairy tale sessions. In the interior where fairy tale heroes and mythological characters are located, the narrations made through the mapping method, interactively and by the animatronic robots of Nasreddin Hodja, Kaloghlan and Dede Qorgud.The events in the Fairytale Castle are organized in two ways first being those which the visitors physically participate and the second is the events that are held online. Creative literacy, P4C, rights-values, STEAM, gamification workshops, music concerts, writer meetings, festivals and art-design and creative programs are offered to the student.
Fairy Tale Castle also organizes events with experts and appeals also to the parents and educators. The digital content prepared by Fairy Tale Castle reaches thousands of children from different provinces of Turkey with social media platforms as educational and activity material.

How has it been spreading?

Fairy Tale Castle has become the center of attention with its architecture, location and accessibility and welcomed 3.422.361 visitors since opening (9 March 2014-30 September 2022). Children and disabled people benefit from discounted tickets. 65% of visitors are in the 5-18 age group.
Education-events and workshops are held free of charge. Since its opening, a total of 677 different workshops have been organized and 30.528 participants have been reached. Workshops are held physically in Fairytale Castle and online via Zoom Meeting program on both platforms. They are organized for school groups as well as individual applications.
The digital content prepared by Fairytale Castle reaches thousands of children through social media platforms as an educational-activity material.

If I want to try it, what should I do?

You can get review our training and events in Media section.

Please contact us for more detailed information through masalsatosu@eskisehir.bel.tr

You can use our fairy tale videos for the integration of Turks living outside Turkey and those who want to learn Turkish: youtube

www.youtube.com/c/ebbmasalsatosu

We are open to all collaborations in the development of project-based content.

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