Gruffalo workshop

[Tatia]

So, if you were planning to attend a Gruffalo story sack workshop, what sort of activities would you expect to see and do? :littleangel:

[miffy]

Oh I thought you were giving us some ideas. Have a mindee who's very keen on the Gruffalo atm.

Miffy xx

[Blaze]

http://www.gruffalo.com/section.php?s=html/gamesandactivities.html

Ideas above!:thumbsup:

[sarah707]

All the animals as face masks... finger puppets to re-enact the story... key words or repeated phrases from the book for focus... mouse activities or other books featuring mice...

Songs featuring mice, owls, snakes - look on http://www.bigeyedowl.co.uk/ for inspiration.

I have a Maisy mouse story sack and the Gruffalo book is in there because it is mouse related so I would say look at that from the other angle... owl or snake books for example.

Depending on the ages of the children you can have fun with movement games... slither like a snake etc or sound games... hiss, twit twoo... what does the Gruffalo sound like?

Hth :D

[Twinkles]

A Gruffalo workshop?

Why don't you know ? There's no such thing as a Gruffalo :laughing:

[Tatia]

A Gruffalo? I've seen one of those.
His new favourite food is Twinkle toes!!!:laughing:


Oh I thought you were giving us some ideas. Have a mindee who's very keen on the Gruffalo atm.

Nope just trying to steal good ideas for next week!!! :blush:

[Twinkles]

A Gruffalo? I've seen one of those.
His new favourite food is Twinkle toes!!!:laughing:


Like it :thumbsup: It is one of my favourite childrens books.

[miffy]

http://www.gruffalo.com/section.php?s=html/gamesandactivities.html

Ideas above!:thumbsup:

Thank you for that Blaze!

Miffy xx

[Tatia]

I've got some cute activities, thanks everyone.

We're gonna make Gruffalo Crumble! I've just bought some corn flakes, porridge oats, diced, dried fruit, hundreds and thousands, chocolate and golden syrup. Basically I'll just let the kids mix whatever they choose into a bowl and then add the chocolate melted with golden syrup for them to stir and put in cupcake papers.

I need to rest my voice tonight for the big storytelling session tomorrow! I do a fasntastic Gruffalo! :laughing:

[AnnieM]

I have just bought all the animal finger puppets from the puppet company and a Gruffalo toy, to make our story sack so will be putting lots of these ideas into practice. Love the Gruffalo crumble idea, may have to pinch that one, if that's ok?? :thumbsup:

[Tatia]

ABsolutely fine!

[bexcee]

Sounds great to me, wish I could come ;) I love the gruffalo almost as much as my three year old son :laughing:

[Blaze]

I have just bought all the animal finger puppets from the puppet company and a Gruffalo toy, to make our story sack so will be putting lots of these ideas into practice. Love the Gruffalo crumble idea, may have to pinch that one, if that's ok?? :thumbsup:

Here's the receipe (from the site I gave a link for further up)!

http://www.gruffalo.com/upload/GRUFF_CRUMBLE_SHEET.pdf

[Blaze]

I've got some cute activities, thanks everyone.

We're gonna make Gruffalo Crumble! I've just bought some corn flakes, porridge oats, diced, dried fruit, hundreds and thousands, chocolate and golden syrup. Basically I'll just let the kids mix whatever they choose into a bowl and then add the chocolate melted with golden syrup for them to stir and put in cupcake papers.

I need to rest my voice tonight for the big storytelling session tomorrow! I do a fasntastic Gruffalo! :laughing:

How did it go Tatia?

[Tatia]

The workshop was fab, Blaze, thanks for asking. I started it off by doing an active story walk. I had cuddly toys for each of the characters and planted them along the garden path (the owl was in a tree, it was really cool). We walked as I read the story and the kids knew a lot of the lines and joined in with me.

I 'invented' my own Gruffalo crumble by giving them dry porridge oats, cornflakes, rice crispies, sprinkles and chopped dried fruit to mix as they saw fit and then added melted choc/golden syrup to stick it altogether. It was a big hit.

[TammyN]

FAB IDEA'S :clapping: we watched the dvd last week, ashamed to say i had never read the book then went to wales last week and there was a shop with the gruffelo display in the window my dd(age 3) said wow look a gruffelo, hadn't realised she took that much interest until then so im working with her interests now and will build a story sack.
it is now a favourite by the way :thumbsup:

[AnnieM]

We made the Gruffalo Crumble on Tuesday, it was a great hit, I didn't use a recipe as such we had sultanas (wrinkly knees), Cranberries (Purple Prickles), Dried Apricots (orange eyes), Green Sweets smarties and jellies (Poisonous Warts), mini marshmallows (terrible teeth), shortcake biscuit (terrible tusks and terrible claws), all mixed together with rice crispies for the crumble, milk chocolate and some dark chocolate (black tongue!! :D ) Wasn't quite sure how to go with the turned out toes though...... :rolleyes: The kids had a ball making it and an even better time eating it. :laughing:

Love the Gruffalo walk, will have to try that one day. :thumbsup: