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:
Gruffalo Play Dough story telling
Little Red Riding Hood Story box
Goldilocks and the 3 Bears Dramatic play
Learning links:
literacy: story-telling, recount, key elements of stories, emergent reading
Cakie: 3.11
Pop: 2.5
Bean: 6 months
Love this, The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a constant favourite at our house. Thank you for the great playdough recipe too, will be trying that out tomorrow!
Fantastic (and you have made my day as J’s playdough models look like Pop’s as well so at just 3 I’m guessing I’m going to see lots of changes this year :))
Love it. I’m always so impressed by your imagination and creativity. And to do all this with a young baby to care for too is just amazing.
so sweet!
This is super cute! My daughter is loving playdough lately and to add books, well this might make her love it even more! I’d love for you to come share this at our Pinteresting Party!
I am really impressed with their work! I so agree with the open ended activity concept. Te results speak for themselves. Just pinned this. Vicky from http://www.messforless.net
This is great! Especially the 2 very different creations by your girls. We just retold Thumbelina using play dough a couple of days ago. I also linked-up to your Little Red Riding Hood story box post.
Just read this book yesterday, or rather was read to, as the children know all the words, such a classic. Would be fun to see a menagerie of Wild Things!
VERY impressed with those caterpillars!
We love this book!! Love the 2 caterpillars made by your girls. (Momma’s Fun World)
We also love the book and thank you soooooooooooo much for the wonderful idea!! very impressed with the two caterpillars!!! congratulationsssssssssssss
So beautiful! Love the caterpillars made by the girls as well! We got a book in Dutch about a monkey and a donkey in a heated debate on something they found, they try it as a had, they wonder if you can sit on it, if it is for swimming etc etc… it turns out it is made to read: it is a book. But that would be great with dough as they learn all sorts of up/under words and visualize them as well as activities.
I love this so much! I am doing a hungry caterpillar round up & will be featuring your idea there.
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