We made some of our easy no-cook play dough in red, green and yellow for creating the caterpillar with. Then we collected some wooden play food using the book as a guide to help us find what we needed. We had most of the items that the caterpillar eats through in the story, but not all, so the girls had to problem solve the missing ones!
They then used the food and butterfly toy to retell the story, turning the pages and matching up items as they did so. C noticed that we didn’t have some of the food and she set about making it from play dough instead. She made wonderful representations of the sausage and cherry pie! Pop also played along, using some of the key elements of the story that she could remember, with the main features in the correct order. Fantastic early literacy skill practise and emergent reading just beginning!
Here are some other creative ways to re-tell stories:
literacy: story-telling, recount, key elements of stories, emergent reading
Bean: 6 months