There was a family workshop day at Glenbrae for week 4. The parents were coming in for short aerobics sessions, a story session with me and then a healthy snack of fruit and veg.
I decided to try turning ‘The Very Hungry Caterpiller’ into a 20 minute Story Session. We used roughly the same structure for all 4 sessions for the 2 different age groups and this was the first time I really felt like I managed to engage the 2-3s in an experience directly connected with the book. 
In the Butterfly Room it was great to meet some of the parents and get an opportunity to get them to wear adventurers bobble hats.
It was good to be working with a book that so many of the children and parents were familiar with.
Because we had such short time with the groups this session felt slightly more like a performance, though we still had enough time to get the children involved with the storytelling. 
One of our most useful props this week was the Green Sleeping bag. If you put Hannah the adventurer inside, use a ‘Time Crank‘ to pass two weeks of time she will change from a Fat Caterpiller (or Faterpiller, as suggested by one of the Children) into a beautiful butterfly.
story pages 