Nursery Winter Story Stones: Storytelling Cards

Winter Story Stones: make up your own winter stories. Twelve cut-out story stones with winter characters, objects and places. Children pick stones and use them to tell their own stories. What’s included: • Teacher guide with Development Matters links. • 12 cut-out story stones. Ideas for using it: • Pick three: Pick a character, an object and a snowflake stone. Tell a story. • Pass it on: Each child adds one sentence using a new stone. • Who and where? Choose who the story is about and where it happens. • Real stones: Glue the pictures onto pebbles for the outdoor area. Linked to Development Matters (three and four-year-olds): • Engage in extended conversations about stories, learning new vocabulary. • Use longer sentences of four to six words. • Use a wider range of vocabulary. • Begin to develop complex stories using small world equipment like animal sets, dolls and dolls houses, etc. Supplied as a ready-to-print PDF (A4 landscape). Print, laminate and reuse all year.