Story baskets for toddlers

Little truck fans will delight in this Little Blue Truck story telling basket filled with all of the objects required to recreate the popular story.

Make a nursery rhyme singing basket for babies, toddlers and preschoolers to enjoy singing their favourite songs with parents and care-givers! Fantastic for early language development and creativity for the very smallest children and a great activity for children learning English as an additional language too. I recently wrote about the fantastic benefits of rhyming...Read More »

My three-year-old loves listening to a story but at times he struggles to sit still. I often put together little story baskets for him so that he can play while I'm reading and still be engaged in the story, or when he reads to himself he can extend his learning or continue with the story afterwards. The materials in our story baskets aren't specifically for the child to recreate or retell the story but rather in their own way, further explore the topics and themes. Above we put a child's…

Poems and Stories to Memorise at three years How we Montessori

I love all books by the author/ illustrator Eric Carle and remember them fondly from my own childhood. Cakie loves The Very Hungry Caterpillar and is slightly over-obesessed with the pages displaying the vast array of food he ate! When I read it to her she makes her own sound-track of little “oooos” and “yums”...Read More »

Story Basket: "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" #preschoolbooks

🍁STORY BASKET🍁 Tonight I tried a little story basket with my three year old who just adores books. He thought it was great and loved using…