Arts-based approaches can enhance understanding among all children in
the group as well as the educators and can further develop children’s
thinking while making learning more child-centered. Incorporating
arts-based tasks with stories is both enjoyable and effective for all
children. In different arts-based and holistic learning processes,
stories can be used in several phases and several purposes. In this
chapter, we present a holistic learning intervention, where stories are
told to children to visualize the learning contents and to support
memorizing and connecting them to children’s prior experiences. In the
intervention to a historic house museum environment, children also
create their own stories for many purposes: to reflect and convey their
learning experiences and to create ideas for arts-based products. The
intervention described in the chapter is implemented with a group of
Finnish preschoolers and the aim is to highlight how stories could be
used effectively for learning different content areas and supporting the
development of different skills. In the intervention, stories are used
as an arts-based activity and in connection to making a craft. The
analysis of this intervention shows how the stories created by the
children contain information of the learning content, children’s
everyday life and experiences arisen during the visit to the museum
environment.