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📚 Sensory reading classes for babies & toddlers
✨ Bringing stories to life through play, creativity & imagination
👶 Ages 6 months–5 years | West Midlands
🔗 www.readplaycreate.com/west-midlands

12/03/2026

Digging through our oaty woodland floor… and discovering eyes, ears and teeth along the way 👀👂🦷

This activity was such fun to watch.

The littlest ones loved exploring the texture of the oats, running their hands through it and reacting with surprise whenever an ear or an eye appeared!

The older littles were busy digging, spotting, scooping and searching for all the different pieces. They began organising them, comparing sizes and even building little faces.

Simple play like this opens up so many opportunities for curiosity, problem solving and imagination.

Such a fun activity to explore together 💛





✨ NEW TERM NOW OPEN! ✨We’ve got an amazing mix of favourites and brand new stories coming to Read, Play, Create this ter...
12/03/2026

✨ NEW TERM NOW OPEN! ✨

We’ve got an amazing mix of favourites and brand new stories coming to Read, Play, Create this term!
Why mix it up? Because the more stories children hear, the more language and vocabulary they experience. Every book introduces new words, ideas and imagination — and the best way to explore them is through hands-on sensory play!

This next term we’ll be exploring:
🦁 Rumble in the Jungle
🔢 Nibbles Numbers
🐻 Brown Bear Brown Bear
🏴‍☠️ Adventure Tales
🐒 Monkey Puzzle
🐧 Penguin

Each session is packed with storytelling, sensory play trays, small world play and creative activities designed to build imagination, confidence and a love of books.

📍 Bromsgrove Girl Guide Centre
🗓 Wednesdays 9:45–10:45
👶 6 months – 5 years

Booking options:
PAYG £8.50
3 week block – 6% off
Use code DGH287
6 week block – 12% off (best value!)
Use code BFH148
Spaces are limited 💛
👉 Book here: www.readplaycreate.com

11/03/2026

Today’s Little Red Riding Hood adventure 🌲🐺🍓

What a beautiful morning. It may have been a quieter session, but the littles had such a wonderful time exploring the story together.
From chia slime to our oaty woodland floor, the whole room became part of the tale. Grandma’s house had plenty of visitors too… playing peekaboo and even feeding the wolf poor Grandma! 😄

Moments like these are so special — children stepping into a story, exploring it in their own way and letting their imaginations lead.

Thank you everyone for a lovely morning of stories, play and quality time with your little ones 💛

Simple play. Big impact 💛

📍 Bromsgrove
📚 Story-based sensory classes for babies & toddlers





10/03/2026

This is how we started sensory play at home with Archie.

Nothing fancy. Just water, bowls, cups and spoons on the floor (with lots of towels… although I’d definitely recommend a tuff tray now! 😅).

We began sensory play because Archie had a slight speech delay after being so poorly when he was little. The speech and language team suggested sensory activities to help build his language. He also had sensory sensitivities and wouldn’t touch certain things at all.

So we started simple.
And honestly, it was one of the best things we ever did.

It helped build his language and confidence in finding his voice, but it also brought so much joy. It gave us something purposeful to do together — especially on those days when you’re at home with a little one and wondering how to play or what to do next.

And then, over time, I discovered how to bring it all together with books and stories 📚

That’s really where Read, Play, Create began.





09/03/2026

A little tiger family appeared in our tiger rice tray 🐯

This little one gathered up all the tigers from around the room and carefully placed them together. They buried them, hid them, fed them and watched over them as they scooped, poured and filled the bowls around them.

Moments like this are so special to witness.

A simple tray becomes a whole world of stories when children are given the space to explore in their own way.

Creativity.
Imagination.
Exploration.
Freedom 💛





🌲 This Week’s Story Adventure: Little Red Riding Hood! 🐺🍓Join us this Wednesday at Read, Play, Create as we step into th...
09/03/2026

🌲 This Week’s Story Adventure: Little Red Riding Hood! 🐺🍓

Join us this Wednesday at Read, Play, Create as we step into the woodland world of Little Red Riding Hood!

Your little ones will explore the story through hands-on sensory play, storytelling and creative activities designed to spark imagination, language and curiosity.
✨ Search the forest
✨ Rescue Grandma
✨ Explore woodland trays
✨ Get messy, creative and playful

These sessions are perfect for babies, toddlers and preschoolers who love stories, exploring and getting stuck into sensory play.

💛 Walk-ins are welcome if we still have space
📲 Or book online to guarantee your place

🔗 www.readplaycreate.com

Come along, play, explore and bring the story to life with us!

08/03/2026

"I never thought of bringing a book to life like this…”

That’s what one parent said today at our Tiger Who Came to Tea session 🐯🍊

This morning our little ones poured orange tea, scooped cereal for the hungry tiger, explored the water trays and stepped straight into the story through play.

This is what Read, Play, Create is all about —
📚 stories brought to life
✨ language through play
👐 little hands exploring big ideas

Watching the children retell the story in their own way was just magic.

📍 Bromsgrove
📚 Story-based sensory classes for babies & toddlers

Keep an eye out for more weekend specials coming soon…

Which activity would your little one head to first? 🍊

07/03/2026

Sometimes the simplest activities hold the most powerful learning.
Concentration.
Coordination.
Precision.
Curiosity.

Little hands building big skills 💛





06/03/2026

What looks simple on the surface is often where the deepest learning happens.

Curiosity.
Concentration.
Repetition.
The foundations children build everything else on.

Come and be part of our little reading community — whether that’s online or in person 💛





06/03/2026

“I never thought of that!”

One parent said this to me recently, and honestly… that’s exactly why I do what I do for you all 💛

The sessions are full of simple ideas and activities that you can try at home. Little prompts, questions, and ways of exploring stories that spark curiosity and help children engage with books in new ways.

Of course, some things you might not want to try yourself (the extra messy ones! 😅) — and that’s where the classes come in so I can deal with the clean-up!

But the simple ideas, the small tips, the moments your little one really loved… those can absolutely come home with you.

Because building a love of stories doesn’t just happen in class — it grows in the everyday moments at home too 📚✨

Come and be part of our little reading community — whether that’s online or in person 💛

Save this and come back to it when you need a little inspiration.





05/03/2026

The magic of a water tray 💧

Every week we include at least one water tray in our sessions, and each one links back to the story we’re exploring together. This week we were “washing” dinosaurs and pants 🦖👖 after reading Dinosaurs Love Underpants.

But what I love most is that the children often take the activity in their own direction.

This little one became completely absorbed in filling the jugs right to the brim. Scoop after scoop, carefully pouring, watching the water rise… and then the moment it overflowed.

Empty. Start again.
Concentration.
Problem-solving.
Cause and effect.
Repetition.

Repetition is one of the most powerful ways young children learn — trying something again and again until they fully understand it.

It might look simple, but moments like this are packed with learning 💛





04/03/2026

Today’s setup… Dinosaurs Love Underpants 🦖👖

Such a brilliant story to explore during World Book Day week! Sometimes the silliest stories are the very best ones, and the littles absolutely loved it.

Our room was filled with dinosaur adventures, inviting the children to step into the story, explore the language and bring it to life through play.

What I love most about our Wednesday sessions is the calmness. You might think that with all these activities it would feel chaotic… but it doesn’t. It’s calm, child-led and full of purposeful play.

Children exploring.
Language growing.
Learning happening right in front of our eyes.

Moments like these remind me why building a love of reading early matters so much — something I’m proud to support alongside the work of and the campaign.

Completely relaxed, completely joyful — and I can’t wait to do it all again next week 💛





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