Pilgrim Chores helping-hands storytime activity

What helping job can your character do?

Prep · About 5 minutes   Play · About 10 minutes

Gather · Pilgrim Chores felt characters or quick paper drawings, a felt board or tabletop, and paper pictures of everyday helping jobs.

1. Name the action. Look at one character together. Describe the pictured job using an action word such as carry, sew, or gather. Children can point or act it out.
2. Build a helping story. Choose two characters. Make up a simple scene in which one needs help and the other offers it. Say what happens first and next.
3. Connect it to today. Take turns naming a helpful classroom or home job. Act out wiping a table, putting books away, or carrying a basket, then let the group guess.

Try saying · “What is this person doing? How could someone help?”

Make it easier · Use one character and model the action before asking children to copy it.

Keep it going · Add a third character and retell the helping story using first, next, and last.

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