Something interesting happened last night that I need to tell you about.Things are like this: my little guy at night do not want to read a book, a book he twisted around, like there is a needle under the buttocks, can not sit.
I had no choice but to take the toy caterpillar into the house.When I saw him, he was jumping around on a pillow, playing with it.I then put the table lamp on the nightstand, the light, the shadow just hit the ceiling.I didn’t realize that the caterpillar’s shadow was wiggling around, and the shadow on the wall was moving with it, a little longer and a little shorter, which was kind of fun.
I put the cup on the coffee table, the “worm” just climbed to the edge of the cup, the child picked up the picture book to cover it.I quickly stopped him and said, “Look, there are fourteen nodes on its belly!”Then with a piece of sketchbook paper handy, I began to tell him stories.
First story: the caterpillar wants to fly
Once upon a time there was a little caterpillar that crawled slowly on the ground every day.One day, it saw a bee flying around in the sky, and it was envious of it.He knew that bees could fly from one flower to another all at once, how free they were!
The caterpillar thought to himself, “I want to fly too!I want to borrow a pair of wings.”So it went to the bee to borrow wings.
“Bee, can you lend me your wings?”The caterpillar asked.
The bee shook its head and said, “No, I have to collect honey every day, and I can’t fly without wings.”
The caterpillar went back to the seven-star ladybug.
“Ladybug, will you lend me your wings?”
The ladybug said, “No, I can’t, my wings are to protect my body, without them, I will get hurt easily.”
The caterpillar continued his search and met the cicada again.
“Cicada, can you lend me your wings?”
The cicada waved its hand and said, “No, no, no, no, my wings are used to make sound, without them I can’t sing.”
Then it also looked for flies, mosquitoes, praying mantis …… but everyone can not borrow.The caterpillar was disappointed and lay down on a leaf to rest.Slowly, it wrapped a shell around its body and turned into a chrysalis.
After a few days, the shell cracked and a beautiful butterfly flew out from inside!It turned out that the caterpillar had become a butterfly and had grown big wings of its own.From then on, it didn’t need to borrow other people’s wings any more and could fly wherever it wanted.
The second story: The caterpillar wants to wear shoes
There was a little spider who was a good shoe maker.The shoes it made were beautiful and comfortable, and many little bugs liked to come to it to order shoes.
For example, the cricket would say, “Please make me six pairs of corn-skin cloth shoes.”
The little lizard would also come, “Please make me four pairs of bean-shell leather shoes.”
One day the caterpillar also came and said, “I want to wear those bean-shell leather shoes that go ‘of cluck cluck cluck’ when I walk.”
The little spider nodded, “Sure, let me measure your feet first.Wow, your feet are really fat!I’ll come back and make them for you after I finish making the centipede’s forty-two pairs of shoes.”
The caterpillar waited by the side.But the centipede had so many shoes that the little spider was too busy.When the wind blew, the caterpillar got a little cold, so it climbed up a branch and made a cocoon on it and wrapped itself in it.“This way the wind can’t blow me.”It thought to itself.
The cocoon hung on the tree and swayed gently in the wind.
Finally, after making the centipede’s shoes, the little spider started to make the caterpillar’s shoes.This time he made several pairs of warm little cotton shoes, thinking, “The caterpillar’s feet are so fat, it is better to wear cotton shoes.”
But when the shoes were ready, the little spider could not find the caterpillar.It had to hang the shoes on a branch, thinking, “She’ll see them when she comes to get them.”
The little spider called it a day and went home.Those little cotton shoes swayed gently in the wind.
After some days, the caterpillar had become a beautiful butterfly and flew out of its cocoon.It had long since forgotten about making shoes.
Suddenly, it saw several pairs of cute little cotton shoes hanging on the branches of a tree and said happily, “Wow, these shoes are wonderful!I can live in them as my little cradle!”
And just like that, those pairs of shoes, which were originally made for the caterpillar, became the butterfly’s new home.
Summarize
After these two stories were told, my boy actually quieted down and looked at me with bright eyes, as if he really listened.In fact, I didn’t expect that I could tell so many things in one night.Sometimes, storytelling is not only about putting children to sleep, but also a kind of communication between parents and children.
If you have little ones too, try telling stories in this easy way.It doesn’t have to be too complicated, as long as the language is simple and interesting, your kids will love it.And you will find that they are actually smarter than we think, listening and remembering.
