Another sim­ple game this week bor­rowed from PUBYAC a few years ago. Ask the chil­dren to help dress the bear (I give him a name based on what­ever sto­ries we’re read­ing or the name that strikes me as amus­ing that day. I think Oba­diah is a really good bear name.) You can decide ahead where the bear is going (ie a wed­ding, choose the top hat and tie or to play base­ball, put on the base­ball hat and leave off the tie) or let the kids dress him as they would like and then talk about what it looks like he’s dressed to do. As well as encour­ag­ing par­tic­i­pa­tion and elim­i­nat­ing the need to mem­o­rize any verses or sto­ries, flan­nel­board games can work well in any language.

Pos­si­ble sto­ry­time themes to use this game with are bears, colours, cloth­ing and shop­ping. For a bear sto­ry­time, the Bare­naked Ladies ver­sion of The Other Day I Met a Bear is lots of fun.

This week’s round up is hosted by Mol­lie Kay at What Hap­pens in Storytime…