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Story Sacks are about making books fun and bringing stories to life. For use both here at Grafton Childcare and at home our Story Sacks consist of a large cloth bag full of wonderful resources to encourage the children and staff to enjoy reading together.

Each sack is based around a well known picture story book in the larger format known as “Big Book Style” produced for Educational settings like ourselves and is supported by a fact book on a similar theme. The Big Book Format is ideal for sharing to groups of children during our daily circle time sessions, as they can all clearly see the beautiful pictures and text on the pages. To encourage role play soft toy characters props, puppets and scenery are added, the sack is then completed with some games, and sometimes even a CD of the story, activity guide and contents list. This wonderful yet simple resource is a must for all who enjoy sharing stories with children.

Here at Grafton Childcare we really value the use of our Story Sacks and are continually adding to our range and the contents of individual bags.

We purchased our first 15 Story Sacks from www.storysacks.com after attending training provided by the company which basically converted us all hook line and sinker to the whole concept of the Storysack®, their website is well worth a look if you wish to learn more about Neil Griffiths and how he came up with the initial concept for the Storysack®, We are always popping in to see what new wonders have been added to their shop and what bits and bobs we can buy to add to our other sacks! The new Winnie the Witch items are now firmly on our shopping list.

At the moment our Story Sack Library Consists of the Following Sacks which can be spotted hanging on the walls in the Conservatory, in the Hall above the children’s coat hooks and cubbies , up on our Landing and stashed underneath the stairs as we are running our of hanging space, so now have to rotate them all on a regular basis.

1. Big Hungry Bear

2. Mrs Honey’s Hat

3. The Princess and the Dragon

4. Old MacDonald had a Farm

5. The Train Ride

6. The Bad Tempered Ladybird

7. Farmer Duck

8. The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

9. Owl Babies

10. Precious Waste

11. Did You See Them Too

12. Harry’s Hazelnut

13. Peace at Last

14. Watch Out

15. Rumble in The Jungle

16. Can’t You Sleep Little Bear

17. Dingle Dangle Scarecrow

18. Handa’s Surprise

19. The Gruffalo

20. The Very Hungry Caterpillar

21. The Ugly Duckling

22. Jack and the Beanstalk

23. The Gingerbread Man

24. Number Puppies

25. Nursery Rhymes

26. The Nativity

27. Noah & The Ark & Other Bible Stories

28. Fairy Tales

29. The Fish Who Could Wish

30. Old Bear Stories

31. Six Dinner Sid

32. Room On the Broom

33. Snow-white

34. Big Hungry Bear

35. Where the Wild Things Are

36. Dinosaurs

37. Elmer Stories

38. The Frog Princess

39. Hug

40. The Winnie The Pooh Collection

41. 5 Little Men in a Flying Saucer

42. Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush

43. Don’t Do That

44. First Experiences

45. Our Father & Other Bible Stories

46. Ants in My Pants

47. Five Little Speckled Frogs

48. The Wheels on the Bus

49. Harry & the Bucket Full of Dinosaurs

50. Tiberius and the Friendly Dragon

51. The Three Billy Goats Gruff

52. The Three Little Pigs

53. Goldilocks and the Three Bears

54. Humpty Dumpty

55. We’re Going on a Bearhunt

56. Ten Little Monkeys

57. The Jobs People Do

58. A Little Bit of Winter

59. Farmyard Tales

60. Percy the Park Keeper

61. The Birthday Presents

62. Incey Wincey Spider

63. Bob the Builder

64. Guess How Much I love You

65. Toy Story

66. We’re Riding On A Caravan

67. We All Went On Safari

68. We’re Roaming in the Rainforest

69. Up and Down The Andes

70. We’re Sailing to Galapagos

71. Off We Go To Mexico

72. We’re Sailing Down The Nile

73. Babushka

74. The Easter Swallows Sensory Tale

Updated June 2012 with 9 new storysacks!