My husband often does the last leg of snuggle-down bedtime with our daughter Z. It's their time together. It's also my time to have a few moments in my day completely to myself. Which for the last three years has been-- you know-- rare. Recently my husband started telling Z made-up bedtimes stories as she drifts off to sleep. He just starts with a little seed of a character or plot piece and keeps going. He often comes out of the room and recounts the silly stories to me and this, of coarse, makes me very jealous what with being her mom and a storyteller. Last night I had a chance to get in on the act. Chris wasn't feeling so great, so I got to do the snuggle-down bedtime portion of our even
About this time last year, I was asked by a local daycare owner to create a storytelling class for her 18 month-4 year olds. I immediately jumped at the opportunity and developed a story time called "Storybox", with the idea that the day's stories would magically emerge from a box in the form of simple objects and puppets that would help build the world of the story in the little ones' imaginations. To create the story box I used the nifty cardboard box that our Christmas cards had arrived in, painting most of the outside with grey chalkboard paint to draw scenery or tell picture stories, and laid the backside of the box with green and blue felt to be used as a landscape with felt characters
