The Sleeping Stoker’s Stories
this book is full of things that we MADE happen. thE stories we told.
THINGS to DO BEFORE YOU BECOME A GROWN UP... carefully captured IN the wonderboxes and numbered. EACH ONE waiting to be picked up... and retold.
INSIDE A DREAM
Dress up and pretend you are inside a dream
Gremlin’s New HOME Work out & make a perfect home for an imaginary creature
LISTEN TO a GREMLIN IN A TIN Try and make sense of something you can’t quite hear
No gravity makes it difficult to drink my tea Write a song & try and make it go viral
Monkey’s Big Adventure Introduce a soft toy you have only just met to somewhere they have never been before
Gremlin’s IMAGINARY FEAST
Search for and prepare a feast for the Gremlin
RESTLESS NIGHT Help someone fall asleep in an unusual place
O & THE MOON WALKERS Make a moon and take it for a walk
THE MYSTERIOUS MUSIC MAKER Make music somewhere you have never made music before
JOY
This is story of joy, joy. This is a story joy, joy
Dig Dig Dig Dig a hole with a teaspoon to see what you find
Tubey Tubey
Play with forty lengths of foam tubing and see what you come up with
Midnight Sunshine
Make a sun from flowers
BUBBLE
Make a big bubble with a piece of string and two sticks
FABRIc DANCE SOLO Create a dance solo with a piece of flowing fabric
Arianna and the Wolf Make up a story from objects pulled out of a suitcase
flow eht dna annaira
See what happens when you tell a story backwards
City of Boom Build a city from your imagination & then play in it’s imaginary streets
Under the umbrella
See how many of you can get underneath an umbrella
ROGER BUTCHER POTION Cook a story potion from leaves & nature
UNUSUAL COAT Bring in and try on a series of unusual coats
THE LITTLE MAN Let an incredibly small man explore the wild terrain of the playground
HIDE BEHIND A STICK
Hide behind a stick
HUSH
Try not to make any sound
RUSHING DREAM
Make someone think they are in a dream by rushing past them in a strange way
MIRROR
Watch everything that is happening in a mirror
ALL TOGETHER
Do something all together
The Monster & the child
Become a four headed monster with your friends
MEAT should be no more Build a safe place for mini animals using sticks and twigs