So when Johanna from Hello Pear asked me if I would like to help her launch her 'Very Hungry Caterpillar' story stones, of course I said YES!
Kindly gifted for the purpose of this review.
Not sponsored.
Long time readers may recall that I'm a brand rep for Hello Pear, and I previously featured Johanna's beautiful and handmade alphablocks on the blog. The hours of work and attention to detail that she puts into her products is second to none. There's something really special about buying a handmade product. Have you seen this quote floating around the web? (I tried finding the original source but I couldn't track them down... if you know where it came from please let me know!)
"When you buy from a small business, an actual real person does a little happy dance."
Pictured here is the set of 20 (Mr butterfly just flew in today via the post - so I'll be sure to share a photo of him on Instagram) and each is hand painted with great details. Johanna also has the Three Little Pigs set available in her store as well as a "mixed set"which encourages your child to come up with their own story. Story stones are made to order, but Johanna tells me that when school goes back she'll have plenty of time for painting (and sanding her blocks for that matter).
Did you see this hungry caterpillar puzzle from my Christmas gift guide? This is another great way to sequence the story - I could imagine Miss M matching each story stone onto the right piece of food next time we get this one out.
Way back when (in 2014) I wrote about our Eric Carle author study that we did at school - lots of other great ideas here if you're interested!
Way back when (in 2014) I wrote about our Eric Carle author study that we did at school - lots of other great ideas here if you're interested!
And just one more link I couldn't help but share is my alphabet pebbles (another oldie from 2014!). My kids loved these - great for spelling out simple sight words and spelling words.
Lauren xx
This has been a favourite of each of my kids in turn. The story stones are cool but I really love those alphabet ones! I could use those with my 5yo who is just starting to make bigger words.
ReplyDeleteI love story stones and alphabet stones. We used similar tools with our little ones to get the to learn new words and create their own stories
ReplyDeleteI LOVE story stones AND the Very Hungry Caterpillar, so such a perfect match! What a lovely tea party :)
ReplyDeleteFavourite kids book! I love the story stones & what a cute little tea party. how fun
ReplyDeleteBrilliant post Lauren. I love the Very Hungry Caterpillar as much as my kids and so there is lots of great things for me to take away here. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI love these! I have added your blog to the Early Childhood index on Australian Education Blogs. I would love to feature this post please - I have a few EC educators subscribe who have been asking for recent and lively EC posts.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards,
Raegina
ozedblogblog.wordpress.com
Nice
ReplyDelete