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Advantages:
- Hands on activity.
- Interactive and musical.
- Puppets are used with a storytelling song.
- Song can be used to retell sequence of events and recalling.
- Puppets can be printed out from the PDF provided.
- Singing the song might interest children during the lesson.
- Items needed are just ice cream sticks and the printed puppets.

Disadvantages:
- Puppets can wear and tear after a while of usage.
- Not durable.
Modifications:
- teacher can create own puppets or ask children to create the puppets instead of printing them out.

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Storytelling with a homemade puppet show is such a creative and engaging activity for kids. It is wonderfully educational and even more fun when you have a song to go with the story. A puppet theatre gives children endless opportunity to let their imaginations go. It is fantastic for developing early language and literacy skills and will provide hours of constructive amusement.

This simple but absorbing activity is just what your child needs to develop their skills for learning. Younger children will improvise and make up their own stories while older children can even get involved with writing full scripts and putting on little plays. Click here for the tutorial on how to make our Storytelling Puppet Theatre.

Storytelling puppets : Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Goldilocks and the Three Bears is an excellent storytelling song to start with as children often know and love this story from a very young age. Start by reading the fairy tale together. If you don't have this one in your collection here is a lovely version for little ones. Once you have read the story, make the stick puppet characters and props which have been made specially to help tell the story simply. You can print the characters off by clicking the image below, simply print and attach to a lolly stick or something similar.

To start with play with the puppets and theatre together and your little ones will soon get the idea.

Encourage them to experiment with different voices for each character. This is an excellent way to demonstrate the contrasting pitches of high and low as well as the three different sizes of big, medium and small.

A lovely way to tell the story is by singing the Goldilocks and the Three Bears song which is also very popular with . This is perfect to sing with the preschoolers as an action song puppet theatre as it prompts little ones with the order and sequence of events in the story.

This will be the first of many stories and adventures as your child gets more confident playing with the puppet theatre. Watch out for more puppets and props as we add them to our Storytelling Songs Series. By creating this fairy tale world you are giving your child the chance to imagine, discover and explore, how exciting is that?
Check out our Bears lesson plan for lots more lovely teddy-bear themed activities combined in a 30 min structured lesson, with step by step teaching notes and supporting resources.

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Storytelling Songs : Goldilocks and the Three Bears Puppet Show - Let's Play Music

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Storytelling with a homemade puppet show is such a creative and engaging activity for kids. It is wonderfully educational and even more fun when you have a song to go with the story. A puppet theatre gives children endless opportunity to let their imaginations go.

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Advantages:
- Hands on activity.
- Items are velcro-ed on the file.
Children can take off and paste the items on the correct places recalling the story and the concept of sizes.
- Easy to prepare the items for this resource.

Disadvantages:
- Teacher needs to create the file and know the specific concepts to be taught to the children
eg. sizes, first and last.
Modifications:
- different concepts can be taught using the story.
- different files can be created for different children.
- children can then exchange the files with friends.

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Advantages:
- Children will be interested in the story telling basket as it provides sensory input and its something that children can handle and also play with.
- Hands on activity.
- Basket consists of:

3 different chairs
3 different sized beds
a table
3 little dishes
3 knitted bear finger-puppets
1 wooden doll’s house figure

Disadvantages:
- It can be costly to create the sensory basket.
- Mini puppets, beds etc including the book need to be provided within the basket and needs to be bought online.
Modifications:
- Teacher can print out pictures of characters in the story and ask children to colour and cut the pictures.
- Teacher can create the Goldilocks and the 3 bears home using cardboard boxes instead of using a basket.

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Create a Goldilocks sensory storytelling basket using small toys and items from around the house, for preschoolers and school aged kids to re-tell the story in their own words! A brilliant early years resource for telling this traditional tale together in a sensory-rich, hands on way.

Following on in our new series of Sensory Storytelling Baskets for toddlers to school age children, we created a Goldilocks basket as this is one of the girls' all time favourite stories (and for many small children around the world too, no doubt!)

As I mentioned before, we have a huge amount of teeny tiny toys from various Sylvanian Families, Playmobil and dolls house sets accrued over the years, which we keep in one large, underbed storage box for constant rummaging and small world play set ups! This makes creating these types of baskets quite straightforward as we often have what we need to hand, and it's easy to create the missing items. A good place to find these is in second-hand shops and in bundles from eBay.

Again, we discussed what we might need for the basket first, and then spent some time together searching for everything we needed. This was a good way to talk about the main characters, sequence of events and key props that are mentioned in the story.
Into this basket we placed:
3 different chairs

3 different sized beds

a table

3 little dishes

3 knitted bear finger-puppets

1 wooden doll's house figure

(These finger puppets are similar and a gorgeous set to give as a gift!)

a cotton ball

a small dish of dry porridge oats

a copy of one of favourite, rhyming versions of Goldilocks. It's SO fun to read aloud and has flaps to lift on each page too!

This one is quite hard to find at the moment, so I'm including a link to another favourite version too, which also has flaps to lift and great illustrations!

Then we read the story together and as we did so, the girls found the correct items to match each part of the story.

They then took it in turns to re-tell the whole story by themselves, using all of the story props to help them remember the sequence of events.

They loved having real porridge oats to serve out onto the little dishes and we talked about how it changes consistency once it is cooked. It would be a great progression activity to go on and make some porridge with the children and then see how it smells, feels and tastes too!

The cotton ball was for feeling the softness of Mother Bear's bed and chair, and they placed these on top of the items as the story progressed.

Once play was over, we popped the items back into the basket and left it out for free access and storytelling over the future weeks. We will replace it with another favourite story soon (or find some more baskets and keep this one intact on the shelf!)

These would be fantastic in a nursery, preschool and Reception/ Kindergarten classroom (or indeed in a little reading corner at home too) to encourage free storytelling at any time.
What they are learning while they play:
Creativity: using their imagination and props to create stories

Literacy: retelling a familiar tale from memory using story props, telling a story in the right order following the main sequence of events, using storybook language to retell stories, understanding words such as "character" when learning about storytelling

Physical: feeling soft and hard and comparing the two

Maths: counting 3 items reliably, comparing and ordering 2 or more objects by size

See our PLAYFUL LITERACY archives for dozens more ideas!

You might like our GOLDILOCKS STORYTELLING activity too!

And how about making some PORRIDGE OATS PLAY DOUGH to enhance the play!

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Goldilocks Sensory Storytelling Basket - The Imagination Tree

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Create a Goldilocks sensory storytelling basket using small toys and items from around the house, for preschoolers and school aged kids to re-tell the story in their own words! A brilliant early years resource for telling this traditional tale together in a sensory-rich, hands on way.

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Advantages:
- Children can use this set of resources to work on their fine motor skills such as writing, colouring and cutting.
- Children can use their own creativity to colour and have each set on their own.
- This kit is easy for teachers as things only need to be printed out before the lesson.
- The sizes of each picture are clear for children to discriminate and compare concepts.
- Children are able to create their own story book using the cut-out crafts.
- Teacher can read to children the story and children can use the given items to retell the story and create their book accordingly.
Disadvantages:
- items are boring as it is only colouring and using paper.
- children might lose interest after colouring a few items.
Modifications:
- Teacher can plan lesson by dividing the craft activities instead of colouring the whole set.
- Eg. colouring and cutting the bears first for the first day.
- 2nd day: teacher can recap the story and ask children what did goldilocks do, which items did she try first?
- Children will recall the items e.g. bowls and then teacher will provide the 2nd resource for children to colour and cut.
- A progression of the lesson can be done until the ultimate outcome whereby the children create their own Goldilocks book using the resource kit that teacher has provided.

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Printable puppet crafts, also known as Storytime Crafts, are one of my favorite things to design for my daughter. She has loved every set I have made and still pulls them out of our craft cabinet occasionally to put on little plays. Other Storytime Crafts I have made are: Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood, and Jack and the Beanstalk. Today I'm bringing you Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

I designed this set a 6-8 weeks ago and Lorelai immediately colored, cut, and played with the puppets. Since the holidays were coming up, I put this one on the back-burner to post so we could focus on crafting turkeys and reindeer. =) I unfortunately did not get any photos of Lorelai crafting this one or playing with it. You can check out the other craft sets in the links above to see how the puppets should look. It's just about the same! With this one, I did sets - the beds together, the chairs together, and the table with the 3 porridges! You can cut them out in a big clump (instead of each individual chair, for instance) to make it easier to play with. Whatever floats your boat!

I hope you enjoy this new puppet set! I had a good time making it. =) Print below...

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Storytime Craft: Goldilocks and the Three Bears

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Printable puppet crafts, also known as Storytime Crafts, are one of my favorite things to design for my daughter. She has loved every set I have made and still pulls them out of our craft cabinet occasionally to put on little plays.

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Advantages:
- Children can handle each piece and create their own stories or reenacting story.
- A mini felt book can be made and children can refer to it whenever they like.
- Not bulky and can be made in a suitable size for children to bring or carry in their bags.
Disadvantages:
- felt pieces can be lost and go missing
- time consuming to create the small felt pieces
Modifications:
- Teacher can print out pictures of characters in the story and ask children to colour and cut the pictures.
- Children can then create their own mini book instead of using the felt pieces.

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Goldilocks and the Three Bears Story Box

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Goldilocks and the Three Bears Story Box

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Advantages:
- A small kit/box can be provided for each child.
- Children can learn to be independent to keep items/toys back into each of their boxes after activity or play is done.
- Children can have individualised items and do their own role play and create their own story using their own creativity.
- Children can re-enact the story and recall events within the story while teacher facilitates.
- Teacher can use the props instead of reading from a story book.
- Children can use the items and play with the items within the box instead of just listening to teacher telling the story.
- Teacher can work with parents to create the box and involve parents in child's learning.
- Concrete items can show the visible difference between sizes when teaching concepts.
- Encourages, language development, creativity, imagination, recall & recognition skills, maths skills (size & number), emotional & social development (as different scenarios are explored) & offers open ended play.
Disadvantages:
- To find boxes of suitable size for each child. Might take up space for storage.
- To create a kit/box for each child might be time consuming. Parents might not have the time to find items for this activity.
- Not everyone has teddy bear toys of different sizes.
- Children might just play with the toys instead of reflecting and referring to the story of Goldilocks.
- Activity has to be facilitated for a structured play and to reinforce concepts.

Modifications:
- Instead of using teddy bears and a doll, children can create their own bears as an art & craft activity.
- Make teddy bear masks of different sizes and goldilocks.
- Plastic bowls/spoons and cutleries can be used instead of household items.

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"Goldilocks & The Three Bears" is one of our favourite books. When we read the book together Minnie loves to join in with the repeated refrains, & gets so excited when the bears return to their house with Goldilocks still inside!

I've used story sacks at school & wanted to create something similar for Minnie, so with a little hunt around the house I found some props to add to our 'Story Box'!

This size box was perfect for storage & easy for Minnie to tidy away at the end of the day.

I left the story box with the story book for Minnie to find. She was so excited to discover it! She spread the items over the floor, & with a little help from me she managed to match the bears to the different sized objects. Baby bear was soon tucking into his small bowl of porridge!

Minnie then ran into the kitchen & found 3 different sized cups for the bears. She came back shouting: "Cup tea please!"

The bears were given the appropriate cups & were then joined by some bear friends for a tea party!

Minnie acted out parts of the story with the bears & repeatedly used the refrains; "Who's been eating my porridge?" & "Who's been sleeping in my bed?"

She also used; "Too big", "Too small" & "Just right" during her play, & made me smile when she added "nice" every time Goldilocks found an item belonging to baby bear.

She changed the end of the story slightly, & instead of Goldilocks running away when the bears discovered her, Goldilocks in Minnie's version of the story said (& signed) "Sorry bear, sorry" to baby bear. So cute!

The bears & props were played with most of the afternoon & I was so fascinated to watch Minnie interacting with them all. It's amazing how much of the text she had remembered & great to observe her recognition of shapes & sizes of objects.

This simple activity encourages, language development, creativity, imagination, recall & recognition skills, maths skills (size & number), emotional & social development (as different scenarios are explored) & offers open ended play too!

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"Goldilocks & The Three Bears" is one of our favourite books. When we read the book together Minnie loves to join in with the repeated refrains, & gets so excited when the bears return to their house with Goldilocks still inside!