Nursery World - Word play

Books can go on giving enjoyment after their stories have been long exhausted, says Philip Waters Books are a wonderful, much treasured resource. But what can your setting do with old and battered volumes? Once they are past their shelf-life they can still be used for play, games and activities in your club.

Books are a wonderful, much treasured resource. But what can your setting do with old and battered volumes? Once they are past their shelf-life they can still be used for play, games and activities in your club.

Imaginative play

I spy

You will need:

* A book which is familiar to a lot of children n pens/pencils n blank sheets of paper

What to do:

For this play, children take on the role of a spy or detective and use a single book as their tool for communicating secret messages. Each spy jots down the page and line numbers of particular words that they wish to have in their message. They therefore only pass on the number code to their fellow spy, who then uses the book to decode the message.

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