Hello everyone. Hello and a very warm welcome to Story Magic Online, a multi-sensory story
session from West Sussex Library Service. As you may know we usually hold sensory
Storytimes in a few of our libraries. These are fun and suitable for everyone
but especially brilliant for children
with additional needs. The story we are
sharing with you this time is "The Alien
Planet" by Stuart Cummings. This is a DIY
story created by the charity Bag Books
and I shall be using objects suggested
by them to tell the story. Before we
start you may like to gather a few of
the following items from around your
home to use as props to help bring the
story alive and engage with the senses.
These items are a colander or a plastic
bowl. A torch, be sure not to shine it
directly in people's eyes. Some play doh,
which feels all squidgy. A balloon, the
round ones are best. Some vanilla essence
or food flavoring or perhaps even some
sweet perfume. Some string or wool. I've used
wool here. I've also attached it to a
pipe cleaner and added and eye, but you could
just use some string or even a very
clean mop head. And lastly a hairdryer. Okay.
Now if you don't have any of those items
at home you don't have to use them or
you could swap them for other things and
you can even be creative and
use completely different things with
this story. So now is a good time to
pause if you wish to gather those items
otherwise you can always watch this
video again and add props later. Okay so
pause now if you need to get those items
ready. Otherwise if you're ready to go,
get comfy. Here we go. "The Alien Planet by
Stuart Cummings. Psssssh, puh.
The spaceship landed with a jolt. Pssssh, puh. Hold onto your seat. Carl and his Dad put on their
spacesuit helmets. Ready? "Now remember don't touch anything," said Dad. Okay. Psssh. The
doors slid open and Carl had to shield
his eyes because there was an alien sun.
The planets alien sun was giant and very
strong. Oh, shield your eyes. So shielding his eyes
from the alien planets' giant sun they
stepped out.
The planets floor was soft and squidgy.
Squelch, squelch, squelch. Soft and squidgy.
Oh. Squelch, squelch, squelch, squelch.
 
 
 
There were
strange alien noises all around them. Can
you hear anything? Listen out,
listen.
 
 
Did you hear
that?
They are strange alien noises aren't they?
And what was that strange, sweet smell?
Where's it coming from? Oh very strange,
sweet smell. It came from a strange alien
plant.
 
There it is.
It looked as if it was made from string
or spaghetti. Does that look like string or
spaghetti do you think? Very
strange looking plant isn't it? Carl
reached out to touch it. But as he did so the plant came to life and it started
climbing up his arm. And climbing up him. Aaaaaaggghhhh! Aaaaaaggghhhh!
Terrified Carl shook off the plant. I think we need to go
back to the spaceship don't you? Oh dear.
They ran back to the spaceship, okay. Run, run,
run, run, run. Quick, quick, quick, quick. Back, back to the spaceship. Pssh. And Dad fired up the
engines.
 
Hold on to your
hat.
Blast off!
"Oh, sorry Dad, " said Carl. "I'll definitely
remember not to touch anything in future."
"I do hope so," muttered Dad as he flew them home. There we go. Off to home. Now
that's the end of the story. Did you
enjoy that trip to an alien planet?
It was good fun wasn't it? Well we hope you have enjoyed joining us
this time. You may like to discover more
about Bag Books and their DIY stories
on their website. Join us again soon for
another Story Magic Online. Bye bye
everyone. Bye bye.
