Story Basket – Amelia Earhart

We are big fans of the Little People, Big Dreams book series and this book in particular is one of my daughter’s favorites.

Amelia Earhart was an American author and pioneer in the field of aviation. Among many other achievements, she was the first female to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. 

To bring her story to life I included a pilot hat, a wooden airplane, little wooden houses and trees, and tiger and giraffe figurines as they appear in the book. I also made a small landing strip using black cardstock paper and white tape for us to practice take off and landing. 

This was so much fun! While I read to her, A enjoyed putting on the hat, flying the airplane around the room, practicing landing and take off, discovering the items in the basket and matching them to the images in the book.

Bookish play is such a lovely way to bring books to life for children and helps instill a love of reading and learning from a young age.

Cleaning up is part of the learning process, so make sure to encourage your child to tidy up after they finish playing. Model how to do it until your child feels confident enough to initiate the tidying up process independently.

Bringing play to life:

• How about bringing your child’s attention to the air traffic where you are? “Look up and tell me: what can you see?”
• For older children, how about bringing their attention to professions that are, still, male-oriented, such as airplane pilots and bus drivers, for example? It’s a great opportunity to start raising awareness about the fact that women, just like men, are capable of anything!