Trains, Boats and Planes: Ideas and activities

Make your own props and act out the story

You will need:

• Recyclable materials e.g cereal boxes or plastic bottles
• Masking tape

Extras if you have them:

• Crayons/paints

Instructions:

• Look through your recycling and see what fun shapes of boxes and bottles you can find
• Stick the boxes/bottles together with masking tape to form a train, a boat or a plane
• Decorate with crayons/paints if you have them
• Use your props to play along with the story!

Other play activities

• Have fun creating your own hot air balloon pictures, using arts and crafts materials, pens and crayons
• Read the story out loud, reading faster and slower to match the pace of each moving vehicle. Get children to join in with the sounds each vehicle makes
• Use large empty cardboard boxes for children to sit in and imagine they are on a train, a boat or a plane

About PlayTalkRead

PlayTalkRead is the national programme and roadshow campaign for the Scottish Government’s Parent Club(this link will open in a new window) initiative. It showcases, demonstrates and delivers key messages to support parents and families with young children to play, talk and read together more from birth. Our team travels around Scotland to provide storytelling and play activity sessions for children to enjoy along with their parents or caregivers.

For more inspiration and ideas, or to find out where our vehicles are travelling to next, you can follow us on X @playtalkread(this link will open in a new window) PlayTalkRead is a project delivered by Smart Play Network(this link will open in a new window), a charitable organisation supporting play opportunities in Scotland.