Bedtime stories

When I was a child me and my two other sisters used to beg my dad to tell us a bedtime story each night before we went to bed. He would tell us the three little pigs most frequently. He told the story in a way to make us feel like we were part of the story. He would name each of the little pigs after one of us, and call himself the big bad wolf. He would use sound effects, such as knocking on the wall when the big bad wolf would knock on one of the three little pigs’ doors, to make the story more interactive. He would change his voice for each of the different characters, which added a comic relief element to the story.

One of the fun things about children’s stories is that there are many ways to get your children involved. You can read them to your children, or have your children read them to you. You can act them out in a play or a puppet show. You can do as my dad used to and add sound effects and change the names of the characters to match real life people that you both know. Children’s stories are limitless when you think of all the different ways to get your children excited about reading them.