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Thursday, 7 February 2013

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Sensory Storytelling Tub

Make a sensory tub inspired by the classic story The Very Hungry Caterpillar for creative and playful storytelling with kids!
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Using story props and sensory play materials is a fantastic way to bring favourite stories to life for young children. It encourages oral storytelling, sequencing, thinking about main characters and events and is a perfect way to introduce early drama skills too! A little while ago we brought the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar to life using play dough and story props, and now we have had more fun doing the same using a sensory tub! We made this for a friend's 3rd birthday party as a game for the little ones to enjoy.
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Tub Contents:
dyed green rice (leftover from our Christmas sensory tub 2011)
coloured large bottle tops
coloured lolly sticks
cardboard tubes with shiny tape wrapped around for pouring (from the Willy Wonka birthday party tub)
neon plastic shot glasses for scooping
coloured cotton reels
coloured pom poms
wooden fruit, cakes, ice creams and other food items from the story
a few real clementines for a real sensory experience!
a Very Hungry Caterpillar butterfly toy (a caterpillar would be a fabulous addition too!)
a copy of the book 
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As with all sensory tubs, we all immediately loved to scoop, pour and run our hand through the rice (me most definitely included!) It can have such a calming effect and is very therapeutic at the end of a hectic day she the kids are cranky and tired. The girl recognised the butterfly and realised that the items in the tub could be found in the book. They started to tell the story, focusing on their favourite elements (ice cream and cake of course!) and were able to remember the key events in the correct order.
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Little Bean loved it too and at first I was hesitant to let her get her hands in it, but after a while there was not stopping her curiosity and she just loved picking handfuls of rice and dropping them again. She only tried to taste it one time but I gently pushed her hand away and said "no", and after that she tipped and poured with it instead. The next time we got this out to play with, she got right into it and sat down!

What they are learning while they play:
literacy: storytelling from memory, retelling in correct order, sequencing, remembering key elements of a story, using storybook language in play
motor skills: scooping, pouring, tipping, pinching and raking through sensory materials
maths: counting out numbers of objects to match those in a book, problem solving

Cakie: 4.5
Pop: 2.10
Bean: 11 mos

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See our other sensory tubs!
Golden Cinnamon Tub
Flowers and Fairies Tub
Baking Sensory Tub
Patriotic Sensory Tub
Lunar Landscape Sensory Play
Gardening Sensory Tub


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Posted by Anna Ranson at 12:39 Labels: Book Activities, Books, Eric Carle, Hungry Caterpillar, Playful Literacy, Sensory Play, Sensory Rice, Sensory Tubs, Stories, Story Telling spacer spacer

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