I love adding a bit of literacy in the mix, so decided to feature the book "Room on a Broom" by Julia Donaldson. We have not read it for a while so decided this Halloween was time to dig it out of the book box.
As the little peeps seem to be enjoying reading books with props at the moment, I thought it would be fun to put a few things together to help the little peeps interact with the story.
I really like putting together story props and this one in particular did not cost me anything, all the items I already had to hand.
In the basket we had a fab witch that my neighbour gave me for the children; a cute witches broom (bought at the local Poundshop); a plastic cauldron; a wand that I made by sticking a silver sparkly heart to a wooden spoon ; a piece of ribbon tied into a bow; and various beanie baby animals (cat, dog, frog).
The children loved re-enacting the story, tapping the broom with the wand and WHOOSHING off.
It was lots of fun and the book is probably going to be chosen again and again over the following weeks.
As the little peeps were loving playing witches, I thought it was a ideal time to make use of a packet of Gellibaff to make a witches brew. So, in the cauldron, we mixed together some of the Gelli powder and water, (I've never used this before and I accidentally added way to much powder and the gloop ended up abit lumpy and not the thick gloopy texture I wanted) the little peeps used some sticks to do lots of stirring, adding some creepy spiders and some glitter to the mix.
