Lets tell a story bag

Story baskets are a fabulous hands-on way to extend, engage and enrich. Be it language, fine motor skills, thinking, mathematics the list goes on.The question is how do you create one? What do you include in it and how do you share it? Here are a number of tips and tricks to help. If you want more details and support then my story basket mini-course may be for you!!Creating one starts with noticing an interest in a book or a general interest and sometimes a resource that sparks your or a…

Stories are a POWERFUL tool in connecting and understanding our children. Not to mention, they are fun and interactive. Kill summer time boredom by playing a game that I like to call 'Story in a Bag.' It is a game that I use as an assessment tool in my therapy work with children that can easily be modified and played at home or while in the car on a long family vacation! First thing you need is a bag. Any bag. You can see how I made my own here. Then, you need to fill the bag up with random…

Story baskets are a fabulous hands-on way to extend, engage and enrich. Be it language, fine motor skills, thinking, mathematics the list goes on.The question is how do you create one? What do you include in it and how do you share it? Here are a number of tips and tricks to help. If you want more details and support then my story basket mini-course may be for you!!Creating one starts with noticing an interest in a book or a general interest and sometimes a resource that sparks your or a…

Make a toddler storytelling basket for the popular story Dear Zoo, by Rod Campbell, for meaningful story telling and interaction through play.

We've been on a Summer break for the last month but it's great to be back. I'm looking forward to discovering new ideas for fun kids activities.

Once a upon a time…there was Tell It Thursday…. in our Hand Made Summer Fun series…. A story bag is not an original idea and there are many ways to do it but Lil B and M-Woww both love creating stories so I knew they would enjoy this activity. It was fun to see them think […]

Telling and sharing stories is a tradition so ancient and universal that some say that it’s what makes us human.

ELA consultant Lynne Dorfman shows how Story in a Bag enlivens in-class and distance learning and helps build writing fluency and problem solving on the spot.