If you’re thinking that you don’t have any wooden peg people or that you aren’t that crafty, think again. You can make some characters from clothes pins, play dough, or cardboard. Or sub in some Fisher Price or Lego people. We did Little Red Riding Hood (sort of) but any story line (or open ended story play) is just right.
We made the trees and bushes from construction paper based on the paper doll principle.
Fold your paper over to give 2-4 thicknesses the right size. To guide your assembly cuts, fold each piece in half in both directions and then unfold so you have two fold lines at 90 degrees.
Then, cut your shapes. Slit one halfway from the bottom and one halfway from the top and slide them together.
They’ll store flat for future play. The longest running segment of our story was the woodsman chopping down trees. After that, disassembly was as fun as setting up the play at the start.
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