We love the Stick and Stone books by Beth Ferry. My 3 year old son, especially, is a huge fan of these characters and their tales of friendship.
I thought it would be fun to try a book play activity with the kids. We are new to book play and I don’t know if we’re really doing it “right”. However, my philosophy when doing any of these activities for my kids, is to keep it fun and that’s the same focus I applied to this activity.
Both kids know this book well, so I kept it very relaxed, provided no instruction or prompts and let the kids decide where they wanted to take the play. First, they spent some time exploring the different trees with Stick and Stone (in the book, the characters are on a quest to find Stick’s family tree). Then they wanted to read the book and finally they dug into some sensory play.
This was the first time this year we were able to take our sensory play table outside and it felt so good to enjoy a nice evening with a relaxing activity for the kids in the fresh air.
Materials
- Stick and Stone: Best Friends Forever – Amazon
- Storyboard pieces (The Great Outdoors pack)- The Eye Spy Club
- Felt Pinecone, felt heart and Within & Co mat – Sewing Seeds Play (save with code HOUSEOFPLAY10)
- Dirt SCENTED sensory mix (save with code PLAY10) – Readymade Play Canada
- Acrylic Lily Pad – Stars and Sensory
- Wood Pinecone tray – AW and Co. (save with code HOUSEOFPLAY10)
- Wood trees – Birch and Bark, Ostheimer & Raduga Grez
- The blue sensory mix is the mixed-up leftovers from our Dinosaur tray a few weeks ago
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