Tall Tales

We read a lot of books with the kids, but they LOVE for us to tell them stories. Josh and I often lack creative juices when they are begging for stories, but this week we had fun letting them help us with the stories.

First we told stories using numbers, from 1 to 20. One of the stories started with one barn, where there were two chickens arguing over three hay bales. We took turns with each number. Somewhere in the story there were boys and girls and popsicles in the hayloft. Even Cora helped with the story line, and it reinforced Sam’s number concepts.

Another way we included Sam in the story telling was to do an alphabet story. We started at A and went to Z. We had to use things that started with the next letter, and I was impressed at Sam’s ability on most sounds. This story had an Ape, of course, who loved to eat biscuits. He ended up at K-Mart and on it went. This was a fun way to liven up our stories.