Primary School English Creative Writing - DIY Story Cubes

Some of you may have heard of story cubes. However, I find them slightly pricey and the pictures are not very attractive to children. So we made our own story cubes, and guess what, we only spent SGD2 to buy wooden cubes from Daiso!

Materials:

Paper

Blu-tack
Pencil
Ruler

Markers
Scissors
Wooden cubes from Daiso (12 blocks per pack)

Instruction of making Story Cubes:

Step 1:

Think of a theme for each block, for example, weather, people, places, food, etc.

Step 2:

Use pencil and ruler to draw lines on the paper, to mark out the size of one face of the wooden cube.

Step 3:
Draw the pictures on the paper.

Step 4:
Cut the pictures out and paste them on the wooden cube using Blu-tack.

How to Use Story Cubes in Creative Writing:

Get the children to throw the cubes, so that there is a combination of themes like weather, people, places. Based on the picture, ask the children to think of a story and write it down.

Other than developing English creative writing skill, your children can use them for Mother Tongue Languages too!

This blog post is part of a blog train "Daiso 101" initiated by Mum in the Making

The next mummy on the blog train is Cherie. She blogs at Cherieladie.com and is a full-time working mum to 2 active boys aged 4 and 2.5. She’s a self-professed Daiso-holic and can never resist the lure of a Daiso shop (who can?). She often lugs huge bags home much to the horror of her husband. Hop over and read about her Daiso hauls – what she buys, what she uses and how she turns some stuff into games for the kids.

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