Offaly County Childcare Committee

Story Sacks

What is a Story Sack?

A story sack is a large cloth bag containing a favourite children's book with supporting materials to stimulate language activities and make reading a memorable and enjoyable experience. In working with the children to tell the story, the following pointers are useful:

Talk about the story and children’s favourite bits
Ask children questions about the characters and the plot
Retell the story using the models and story sack contents
Find out more about the people and places in the story by looking at the non-fiction books to expand learning
Draw a character or model one out of plasticene
Draw a story map of the plot to help with re-telling the story
Use the story to creatively engage the children in learning life lessons

We have Story Sacks in the Tracey Buckley Resource Library which you can borrow for your service.

Itchy Bear

Poor Bear has a terrible itch but cant find a good place to scratch.

This Neil Griffiths Storysack contains the book, an Itchy Bear puppet, puppets of all the creatures he meets in the story, CD of the story, a game, scenery from the book, a fact book and a Teachers Guide.

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