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I have a wonderful project to share with you today which combines literacy and art ideas to create magical Incy Wincy books. We’ve been at the GobbleDEEbook Children’s Literature Festival in Chester this week, having a fabulous time. One of the workshops we attended was run by Becky Adams, an artist who explores the links between narratives and textiles. She guided a room full of children and parents through the workshop, resulting in everyone producing their very own, unique Incy Wincy book. How to make an Incy Wincy book Read more »Welcome to the carnival of Reading and Book Play L’s been taking literacy outside this week and reading stories to our sunflower (which had decided to grow along and up) How do you share books and reading with your children? Swap an idea with us. All playful activities related to books, reading and story . . . → Read More: Carnival of Reading and Book Play
I’m always on the look out for opportunities I can offer the children to get them interested in writing. Sitting rather reluctant writers down with a blank piece of paper and a pencil and saying ‘let’s write a story’ doesn’t work for us – but adding writing in to play or setting up a invitation which sparks their interest does. Create your own opening crawl This idea for creating a story on a roll popped into my head when I was thinking about a different way for us to use our easel. Adding a long roll of paper to the easel made me think of the opening credits to Star Wars, when the text crawls up the screen and I thought we could use it all summer long to create a story. Amazon.co.uk Widgets Following on from our post about World Book Day ideas, here’s a suggestion for a World Book Day craft. And the perfect craft for World Book Day has to be a bookmark, right? We often make bookmarks when we’re giving someone a book as a birthday present, and they’re so easy to make you could even . . . → Read More: How to make a bookmark
L keeps telling me she wants to be a grown up. She wants to be a mummy with a baby, she wants to do the washing up and she keeps asking me if she’ll be able to do things ‘when I’m big numbers’. (I’d quite happily put the brakes on her and . . . → Read More: Letter Dectective Hunt  |
   
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