Activities around Stories to Support Early Years and Key Stage One.

Since its inception the project has produced a wide range of games and activities around popular stories. In fact our 1980s Saturday storyprops workshops were considered by many at the time to be more fulfilling than retail therapy! This work has inspired other projects such as storysacks and storytents. However, I think this project is unique in always sharing this good practice for free.

We are now running workshops again on developing new activities. We ran a very successful one in Leicester. Please keep an eye on our newsletter which will tell you whether we are running workshops in your area. If you are interested in us helping you run a workshop in your area/LA/school please contact us. We are non profit making and therefore keep costs to the minimum.

We are now beginning to put more material online. However, for copyright reasons, we can't use pictures from the actual books, and we would like to draw on your and your children's own pictures to improve the appearance of our online games.

"Harry and the Robots" - track game with lotto potential.

"Pants" track game with variations and lotto potential.

"Dirty Bertie" - track games where germs and soap battle it out.

Here is our guidance on making and using track games.

Take a look at the "Peace at Last" lotto game .

Here is kit for making track/collecting games around "We're Going on a Bear Hunt" .

Here is a board game kit and other activities from Handa's Surprise by Eileen Browne by members of the SEAL team in Brighton and Hove. This activity will shortly be available on their website , where they will provide an increasing number of resources.

Here is a Mad Food game from Kingston upon Thames based on the book by Nick Sharratt.

Thirdly an activity based on "Would You Rather?" by John Burningham and suitable for KS1.

Three activities on "Burglar Bill" by Janet and Allen Ahlberg

This page was last updated on 10th April 2010.

For access to other online activities for KS1 in maths, science etc go the online activities menu.

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