How do the Felt Playsets Help?
The felt playset books provide children, age 3 years and up, with a very early start toward literacy. Through interactive play, children use their imaginations to create stories, act them out, and retell them to others. • Felt pieces can be placed in various scenes, which encourages imaginative play. Imagination and creativity build pre-writing skills. • Understanding that pictures represent an idea is a precursor to understanding that letters and words represent an idea. • Children strengthen their visual attention and perception by finding the details in pictures that illustrate a story. • Interactive play brings a story to life, which engages children, building listening and storytelling skills. • The freedom to create one’s own narrative and change it along the way builds confidence in storytelling, an important pre-writing skill. • Children can play alone, with parents or with friends. This interactive storytelling activity helps build social skills.
