Hello everyone and welcome to Story
Magic Online. A multi-sensory Storytime
with West Sussex Libraries. We usually
hold our Story Magic sessions at a few
of our libraries. These stories are for
everyone
but they are especially brilliant with
children with additional needs. The story
that I'm sharing with you today is one
of my favourites. It is called "The
Gingerbread Man" and this has been
created by our very own library staff.
We're going to be using props to share
our story today to bring our story alive
and to engage in our senses. You may like
to gather some of these objects at home.
They are a gingerbread man just like
this one. You could draw one and cut it
out. An apron, a mixing bowl and wooden
spoon. Some ginger biscuits or a piece of
fresh ginger. Some oven gloves. On a sheet of white paper stick some black
splodges on for cow prints, just like our one here for our story. Two plastic
cups and a blue piece of fabric. This could be a tea towel or a pillow case. You may like to
pause the video now so that you can
gather those items together and then
we'll start our story. Are you ready?  "The Gingerbread Man." Once upon a time
there was a little old lady who loved
doing baking.
She put on her apron.
Let's put our apron on ready.
Let's do it together.
 
Now, were ready to do our baking. She decided to make some biscuits. So she puts some
flour and some sugar and some butter
into her bowl and started to mix. Ready,
shall we mix together? Round and round and round. Good mixing everybody. That's it, give it a good old
stir. Then she added some ginger. You
might like to get your ginger biscuits
ready now just like this. Let's have a smell. Mmm, they smell nice.
Let's have a smell of this ginger, ready? Mmm,  delicious.
She put some ginger into
her mixture. Let's give it another mix,
ready? Well done. Then she puts her
biscuits into the oven.
Let's get our oven glove ready now
shall we? We need our oven gloves because
the oven is very hot. Let's put them in the oven. Then she waited. When she opened the oven door out popped
the Gingerbread Man. Ready? He went pop just like that out of the oven. And he
sang a song, ready? Let's get your running
arms ready like this. And we're going to
pretend to run okay. We've got our very own Gingerbread Man here who's going to do his running.
Ready?
"Run, run as fast as you can. You can't
catch me I'm the Gingerbread Man." Shall
we do it one more time. Ready? "Run, run as fast as you can. You can't
catch me I'm the Gingerbread Man." Then he ran past a cow.
 
Let's get your cow print ready.
"Mooooo,"
said the cow. "I want to eat you." But the Gingerbread Man said "Run, run as
fast as you can. You can't catch me I'm
the Gingerbread Man." Then he ran past a
horse. Let's get your cups ready. Let's make our horse sound. Ready. I've got some coconut shells.
Can you hear the horses hooves?
Can you do
that with the cups? Shall we make the horse run even faster, ready?
"Stop!", says the horse. "I want to eat you." But the Gingerbread Man said "Run, run as
fast as you can. You can't catch me I'm
the Gingerbread Man."
Then the Gingerbread Man came to a river.
 
Let's get your blue fabric, here's my river.
There can you see how shiny the water looks today? There the Gingerbread Man came to the
river. How's he going to cross the river?
"Hello," said the fox. "Why don't you jump onto my back and I can give you a lift
across the river." So the Gingerbread Man
jumped onto the fox's back for a lift.
But the fox flipped him up in the air and snap! That was the end of our Gingerbread Man. That was
the end of the Gingerbread Man. He went
snap! Thank you for listening everybody. I
hope you enjoyed the story today and
we look forward to seeing you again for
some more Story Magic online.Thank you. Goodbye.
