Barefoot Books Build-A-Story Cards: Magical Castle

By Barefoot Books
Price $12.99
Age 3-10 yrs.

Barefoot Books Build-a-Story Cards offers an abundance of games that unleash kids' imaginations while nurturing storytelling and social-emotional skills. Each of the 30+ games provides a relaxed and playful context through which children explore feelings, opposites, friendship & conflict, story structure, creative writing activities, and more! The wordless cards display stellar artwork by renowned Barefoot illustrator Miriam Latimer and can be used individually or in combination to fuel joyously improvisational storytelling. The cards are evenly divided into three categories - character cards, setting cards and object cards - that inspire stories about dragons, castles, flying bikes, potions, unicorns and countless other fascinating scenarios! By juxtaposing cards in various ways and speaking what comes to mind, youngsters develop a keen sense of story structure and confidence in their own creative and verbal abilities. A major focus of Build-a-Story Cards is on fostering social-emotional learning and awareness, a process made easy by the carefully crafted illustrations and brilliantly simple instructions. Perfectly suited to either solo or group play!