Story Spoons

from 36 months · 10-15 min · Quiet & calm

What you need

Stick a strip of masking tape on the back of each spoon and let your child draw a face on each one, with eyes, a nose and a mouth: three pigs and a wolf.
Tell The Three Little Pigs together, with each spoon as a character. You hold the wolf.
Let your child tell the next bit, moving the spoons. Ask what happens after the straw house falls down.
Then let them make a new spoon character and tell a story of their own.

Holding the characters in their hands makes a story they know easier to tell, and then to change.

Retelling a story: What happens first, next and at the end, with the spoons as reminders.
Talking for characters: A squeaky pig voice and a gruff wolf voice.
Making it their own: Changing a story they know into a new one.

Notice them giving each spoon its own voice.

Start with a story they know well. A new one works better once they're used to the spoons.

Easier: tell it yourself and let them move the spoons and do the huffing and puffing

Harder: ask how the wolf feels at the end, and tell it again from the wolf's side