Parents

Discover ways to support your child’s reading from an early age and give them a head start with learning to read through our interactive, sensory storytelling and drama classes. 

Helping you to inspire a love of reading and learning in your children from an early age and empowering you to explore books together. 

“The way Sarah interacts with the children is incredible and the activities keep even the most distracted of children interested. Throughout the sessions I have seen Hugo’s imagination suddenly grow, and his speech has certainly been helped by the stories and activities done at Jigsaw. We also have now found both boys have found a new interest in a range books throughout the day and especially at bed time rather than having to read the same story every night. I can’t praise Little Story Shapers enough and my boys certainly have loved and learnt so much from them!” 

R Bright 

“We had so much fun at the summer workshop today. Sarah was great with the children with her creative, fun and caring manner. All the children looked like they were having a great time with all the singing, sensory exploration and story time. This is the only class I’ve been to based on a story - such a great idea. I travelled from Colchester and it was so easy to get to just 15mins. I definitely recommend trying this class for something fun and different”

F Olney

For anyone who is looking for a local baby group, I can't recommend Little Story Shapers enough. I've seen such a huge development in Oakleigh's confidence over the past 6 months and her love for books has definitely been spurred on by Sarah's fun imaginative play in bringing the stories to life. She LOVES it, and Sarah too.

A Spicer

"Little Story Shapers is so good, I would highly recommend, my daughter (2.5 yo) and I love it. Each week my little girl is engrossed by the story of the week and loves using the amazing props. For a little ‘thinker’ she has been made to feel at ease by Sarah and encouraged to use her imagination to bring the stories to life. A really lovely class!"

A Hopgood

Free Resources

We are passionate about helping parents to bring story books to life at home for their little ones and we hope that these resources help you to do just that…

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5 Ways to Engage your Little one in Books and Reading

Helping children to fall in love with books and reading is so important and vital for their development. Reading together provides an opportunity for connection, feeds their imagination, helps their understanding of new situations, teaches vital skills and is a lot of fun.

Download these 5 TOP TIPS to help engage, excite and enter into the wonderful, imaginative world of books. 

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How to Make Up a Story for Your Little One?

Making up stories has so many benefits as you can tailor the story to your own child. These stories can create a calming moment when needed, help reduce anxiety when going somewhere or doing something new, they can help recall experiences and provide teachable moments for our little ones.  

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How to Help Your Wriggly Toddler Engage in Books

This guide will give you practical tips and advice on how to you help your little one if they are on the move and less keen on sitting reading a book.  

Although, snuggling together on the sofa to read a book is lovely, this isn’t the only way we can read stories with our little ones.

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Top Tips for Reading to Your Baby

It may feel strange or awkward reading to your baby. You may feel like it’s better to wait until your baby can talk or know the meaning of different words.

But reading to your baby from newborn has so many benefits for both of you and this guide is here to help with 5 Top Tips.

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5 Top Tips to Spark Joy in Young Readers this Summer

The 6 weeks summer break can feel like a long one for some parents, but this guide is here to give practical, affordable activity ideas to help entertain your child whilst shaping a love of reading and books. 

Zip and Friends

Zip is an adventurous pup, who explores the different colours of the rainbow. He is in charge of our special story sack at Little Story Shapers, which has inside the different book we bring to life each week.  

Zip helps get our imaginations warmed up as we sprinkle ourselves with imagination dust. 

Fruit Colour Splat!

This game has a huge range of different activities you can do to support your little ones communication and boost their vocabulary.

Simply download the resource by clicking the button below, print, cut out the splats and start playing! 

FAQ's

A Little Story Shapers class is 45minutes. We begin with our welcome song and sign hello to each of our little ones, allowing everyone to settle in and learn each other’s names. We then read the story over the duration of the class, stopping to bring parts to life. We finish each class with a calming song and sensory lights.  

Yes of course. You are very welcome to feed and change your baby on the mats provided. Alternatively, all venues have baby change facilities if you would prefer to use these. We are a breast and bottle feeding friendly class and chairs are available if you find this more comfortable.

Due to allergies, we ask all parents to keep food in their bags and if your little one requires a snack, please do so outside of the room where class is taking place. 

If Little Story Shapers is your first class, I would like to firstly say thank you so much for choosing us. We pride ourselves in the warm, welcoming environment of our classes.

You can expect to have the opportunity to bond, connect and spend time with your baby. Over the duration of the class we will read a story book, stopping along the way to allow your little one to explore a range of sensory props, songs, bubbles, a parachute and calming lights.  

An individual props bag is laid out ready for you to dive straight into when you arrive. Allowing your little one to be entertained from the beginning.  

We begin with our welcome song and sign hello to each of our little ones, allowing everyone to settle in and learn each others names.  

We then read the story over the duration of the class, stopping to bring parts to life along the way.  

We finish each class with a calming song and sensory lights.  

No need to worry! All of our little ones are free to explore and move around the room during the class. They will be up on their feet acting out parts of the story with a huge range of different props and activities to keep them engrossed and engaged in the story.  

Yes definitely. At Little Story Shapers we pride ourselves in being inclusive for all and our classes have been designed by a fully qualified Primary school teacher with 12 years experience working with children who have additional learning needs.  

Yes, our classes are suitable for all children and we work very closely with those children who may feel shy or nervous about coming to a class to help reassure them and allow them to settle in.

Additional support can be given to help your child before you even come to class in the form of a video recorded message or photos of the class set up to help prepare children for coming to class.  

Please refer to our Terms and Conditions regarding missed classes and refunds.  

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