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Harold and the Purple crayon sack upgrade.

‘Harold and the Purple Crayon’ by Crockett Johnson is such a lovely story! I made the original Storysack back in 2005 but it didn’t have a game and the activity book and crayons were damaged…time for an update! I made a board game, drawing little scenes in the style of the book – then I made a fabric bedroom scenery with a little sheet sewn on so you can put Harold in bed! – I love the challenge of finding non-fiction information books to complement the stories, ‘Me on the map’ by Joan Sweeny was perfect. Introducing children to maps and geography, the little girl shows readers herself in a map of her room, her room on a map of her house, her house on the map of the street, the street on a map of the town, the town on a map of the country, the country (USA) on the map of the world (I added UK label here!) and then she explains how to use maps in diferent ways.

The Princess and the Pea

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Listen to the story, read by Mrs Ingham (Headteacher) 2009

‘The Princess and the Pea’ (retold) by Lauren Child.

Theme: traditional tale.

Real princesses are hard to find these days. You just have to wait for one to come to you. And if one does, just to be sure, make her bed of twelve feather mattresses, and, and underneath place a small green pea. Then wait for the morning and if she wakes up all black and blue, you’ll know you have indeed found a real princess.

* Made in 2009 by Myatt Garden parents, with sponsorship from Boden UK..

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