Yesterday I should have been at the last session of the family learning at the school where we were meant to be finishing our story sacks and talking about them with the group. But due to lil man being in hospital I wasn't there, but my story sack is now finished.
Pirates Love Underpants Story Sack was made by me, if you follow my blog you will have seen bits over the past 5weeks that I was making to go in it. Here is a picture of the finished thing with everything and I will add pics and descriptions of other bits below.
First off was the sack, we were given plain canvas sacks and told we could decorate them how we liked. A lot of the people in the group did them to the book they were putting in it, I decided to do it as a general sack so we could change the contents. More info on my sack can be found here and here
My main story book for the sack was of the "pirates love underpants", my son already had dinosaurs and aliens and likes them and he likes pirates so this seemed a good choice. As part of a story sack we were told that the sack has to have a "fiction/fact" book, so I bought the 100 facts on pirates shown above, this was much bigger than I thought it was going to be.
I made a little "work book" linked to the story and laminated the pages so that they can be used again and again. I have included white board pens and hi-lighter pens that rub off and a board rubber in a pencil case.
My son asked if we could have a monkey like in the book, and brought me his toy one from upstairs. This was ok but the monkey in the book had pants on, I asked my friend to make me a pair of knitted pants for him. Her first attempt didn't work and we ended up with a monkey "mooning" us, which was quite funny.
I made a Pirate and a Parrot hand puppet to go in it. The parrot was a "wash mit/flannel" bought off ebay, but was green. The parrot in the book was red, so I glued red feathers all over its back and wings and made it a tail. I also made it a pair of underpants like in the book. My boys didn't know about the parrot as I didn't make a post or tell them I had bought it.
I made a Golden Pants Trophy like the pirates are hunting for in the book. My boys thought it was really good.
I bought the dvd "So you want to be a Pirate" and added it to the bag, it's only 18minutes long but tells you things you need to do to be a pirate etc. I didn't realise it was so short I thought it was a proper film.
I bought a travel version of the traditional game pop up pirate and I made a set of matching pairs underpants cards. When they were printed you could see the pants through the paper so I made a sheet the same size as the cards using the cover of the book, cut them out and put on the back of pictures of pants and then laminated and cut out. Now you can't see which pants are which. I printed out a mini instruction card and placed them all in a small drawstring bag.
Last week at the family learning I was given a small wooden treasure chest which I decorated and added gems and coins to. This was also meant to be a suprise for the bag, but I forgot to put it up before the boys came home from school so they saw it.
Lastly I added a (brand new) pair of boxer shorts (Aldi had packs of 3 reduced to £1.49 and they are next size up for my eldest son but now only has 2 pairs) and an eye patch so that my son(s) can dress as a pirate in underpants when we read and re-tell the story with the props.
Here's my lil man as a pirate in underpants with the parrot puppet.
I really enjoyed this course at the school it has been good fun and my kids like their story sack. Hopefully I will be able to make a different one (or 2) so that we can change them round from time to time. They want to put it in the car.
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