This is not my idea! All credit goes to Linda Meuse from
Notes from the Story Room and her blog post on 12-1-12. Linda, awesome story & idea - love it. The story is called the Sheltering Tree; it is about a little fur tree who kept a host of animals warm on a snowy winter day. Linda's story is draw and tell, but I changed mine a bit by making a larger tree and having little "lift the flap" holes. The tree is green posterboard and the flaps were cut with an exacto knife. The animal pictures are from Google images. I hot glued popsicle sticks to the back of the tree to give it some sturdiness, and a toilet paper roll (ha!) is also glued to the back to act as a "handle."
I have a mixed age group of kids at a local daycare, and they respond really well to this type of activity. Walking around the room and letting the children see inside the holes was a lot of fun and the kids loved it.
I used Linda's original story, delightfully simple and easy to tell, and it's available in a Google document from
her blog post.
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