Sharing books and stories

Enjoying books and stories with your child

• Encourage other family members to share books and stories with your child
• Let your child see you and other family members reading
• Listen to stories on cd's or similar too
• Take a book or cd in the car
• Join the library and make visits part of a regular outing
• Make enjoying a story together a part of your daily routine.  It doesn't have to be just at bedtime
• Make your own books using photos, drawings and cuttings from catalogues and magazines
• Make some home made puppets and use them to tell the story
• Use clothes for dressing up as characters from the story
• Make up new parts to favourite stories or just add / use your child's and / or other peoples names