The Little Hungry Dinosaur

The theme about food is easy to be understood, so that story is quite proper and nteresting for toddlers. The story is simple, so children try to participate and perform the story by themselves. The most important thing for little children is to enjoy the story, so don’t make the story too long or too difficult.

Here we present just an idea how your soft book could look like. You can create your own food elements.

The back page of this soft book could be organized like a pocket where to store the removable parts.

Once upon a time there was such a big egg!

 

The mouth of the dinosaur is a pocket, where the narrator puts the food in.

The egg broke down and a little dinosaur hatched. His name was…

"Is there anything to eat?"- said the little dinosaur.

"There is an apple."  - and the narrator can show the apple and ask the child to guess what it is. And you put the delicious apple in the mouth of the dinoasaur, imitating the sounds of eating and exclaiming “Delicious!”
"Is there anything to eat?" - asks the baby-dinosaur.

"Yes, there is. An ice-cream". The narrator pretends to eat it, licking it, then put sit in the mouth of the dinosaur.

The narrator continues discribing the candy, the cake, and when the child guesses them, puts them into the mouth.

Finally an airplane comes around – imitate the sound of an engine…
"Oh, what is this? Is it food?"
The child usually shrieks "No, no, this is not for eating".

But the dinosaur swallows it – snap!

“Oh, is it a bird?”-he asks.
"No, this is an airplane! It is not for eating!  Why did you put it you mouth?"
Then the narrator makes a grim like she/he has a stomachache.

 

“Oh. My stomach is aching, aching, it hurts”- the dinosaur cries.

“What shall we do? Oh, yes, we’ll call the doctor.”

The narator pretends to dial a number:

“Hallo. Is this the doctor? Dear doctor, our little dinosau has a stomach ache. Would you come and see him?”

The doctor comes:

“What did you eat? Did you eat anything strange?”

“I was very hungry. I ate an apple, an icecream in a cone, a piece of cake, a candy, an airplane…”

“What, what? An apple, ice-cream , cake, and did you eat the wrap of the candy? Oh. And the plane. Planes are not food. That is why you have a stomach ache. I will make an injection.”

“No, no, I am afraid, no injection…”

“Don’t worry, it will not hurt…”

“When the doctor make the injection, you start taking out the food of the Dino’s mouth.”

“Oh, thank you doctor. I feel much better. No stomach ache”

“And don’t eat strange things! Don’t put strange things into your mouth. And don’t eat just candies and sweets!”