i agree depends on the story totally
for 3 little pigs, we made stick puppets with cut out pics for children to hold up at right parts of story
for bear hunt we just read it and act it out
for handa's surprise we shopped and bought all the fruits and tried it, then painted pictures of the fruit
hungry caterpillar (along with real ones) we made caterpillars, with fruit pictures, then made cocoons, then did butterfly paintings, fed and let butterflies go
gingerbread man, we read and made gingerbread
girls are really into princesses at the mo, so listen to story Cd's, act out the story, dressed up. We dance to classical CD's, we read other princess stories, make crowns and decorate them.
sometimes it's a day or 2 sometimes its a long ongoing process and repeated intermittently.
I always try to do literacy, creative activity and a PSED/workign togehter element but some stories like 3 little pigs and hungry caterpillar lend themselves naturally to UW activities.
Go with the flow is my thing
if you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got
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