Physical Development
Personal, Social and Emotional
Go for a walk in near by woods Collect sticks and
see if you can find a good tree for stickman and his
family to live in.
Set up a sensory tray with items from the story,
sticks, leaves, little figures, swans, dog, etc…
Play pooh sticks with a friend.
Make a sandcastle like the family in the story did.
What will you add to it? Do you have a mast for a
flag?
If there is snow out then build a snowman and find
the right stick for his arms!
Read the story together and then think about how
stickman and his family must feel being apart from
each other. What things does Stickman get used for?
How does he get home?
Look at the emotions in the story. The faces on the
characters at different parts of the story. What do you
think they are feeling and why?
Make your own family tree by decorating sticks for
each member of your family.
Look at how family trees are formed and how it
shows our family history.
Literacy
Read the story together and talk about the
different characters. Get the children to join in
with parts that they know and the repetitive
phrases in the story.
Use a story sack to enhance the story and
encourage conversation and children to take part
in the story telling.
Listen to the audio version of the story.
Watch the TV animation.
Ask the children to describe the characters from
the story. How do the Stick family look differently
from each other?
Stickman
BOOKS: Stickman
Use a story sack to enhance the story
and encourage conversation and
children to take part in the story
telling. Print out pictures from the
story and use them for sequencing.
Encourage the children to act out the
story to you using props.
Take the story to the woods and read
it there. Use sticks to write in the mud.
Make and label a map of the journey
that Stickman took and add things like
the swans nest, the sea, the house
where he met Father Christmas.
Communication and Language
Collect sticks and group them or order
them by size.
Count sticks
Measure the length and width of sticks
Count the number of each animal on the
pages of the book.
Have pooh stick races and make
predictions as to which stick you think
will win and why.
Use sticks to make shapes outside. Try
laying them in a way to make a triangle
or a square
Act out the story using the stick people
you have made.
Use sticks to bang on things to make
sounds to accompany the story.
Experiment with the sounds sticks make
when banged on things or run along
railings.
Set up a Stickman small world play area.
Provide material and props for Stickman
role play.
Set up a Stickman creation station with
items that could be used to make your
own stick people.
Mathematics
Expressive Art and Design
Listen to an audio copy of the story
or watch the tv version.
What uses can you find for a stick?
Look at the swans in the story.
What did they use to make their
nest? Why did they build a nest?
Look at the trees and how they
change with the seasons.
Use an app to identify trees when
out on a walk.
Take pictures of trees you like and
the use the pictures to identify them
using books when you get home.
Understanding the world