It's All About The Gruffalo

Oh Help! Oh no! It’s a Gruffalo!

The children in the toddler room at Daisykins Nursery in Rugby have spent the week focusing on the story 'The Gruffalo'. The children displayed a keen interest in the story when it was shared at story time. The children have had a blast completing many different Gruffalo themed activities.

The kicked off the week with the Gruffalo story and made a giant Gruffalo painting. You can see this now proudly displayed on the door in to the toddler room at Daisykins Nursery. The children in the toddlers had great fun getting messy painting the Gruffalo, recognising the image immediately.

As part of their Gruffalo topic they have also enjoyed cooking their very own Gruffalo crumble. They each took it in turns to add and mix all the ingredients necessary to make their Gruffalo crumble (apple crumble) developing their physical, communication and personal, social skills.

The children in toddlers particularly enjoyed making their own Gruffalo’s out of brown playdough. They were offered a variety of resources to recreate their own Gruffalo’s including googly eyes and little wooden sticks that were used to make the purple prickles all over his back. They spent a considerable amount of time shaping, molding, poking and rolling the playdough to create their own Gruffalo shapes. This was a great opportunity for the toddlers to develop and strengthen their motor skills.

Manager Kelly could see how engaged the children were in the Gruffalo topic so decided to set up an exciting Gruffalo tuft tray. This was filled with oats and a variety of natural objects to create a woods were the Gruffalo story is set. The story was read to the children alongside the tuft spot to help create story links. The children were then left to explore the tuft tray as they wished, re enacting the story and developing their imaginations.

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The Gruffalo story has been a huge success and the toddler room practitioners will observe the children closely to see what they share an interest in next. Which story would you recommend the children read next?