Can you collaborate
on a floor book story?

Instructions:

1. Find a large comfortable area on the floor.

2. Place a large piece of paper on the floor and tape it.

3. Get markers and any other materials that can spark curiosity and may help to create a story.

4. Let your child decide what the story might be about.

5. Help draw some setting to facilitate and enrich the story.

6. Let your imagination fly high!

Powerful InterACTions:

• Let’s think of a wild story today! What would you like your story to be about?

• I see… let’s start with the setting. Where is the story taking place at?

• Let’s find materials that might help you add to your setting. How can you sort them? Great thinking.

• How do you imagine your characters? Who is in the story?

• What else do you want to add?

• I see you have a house. What is one word that rhymes with house? Great thinking! Let’s find one more.

• What do you want to do with the remaining materials?  I wonder what happened at the end.