Gruffalo Granny’s Stew – Story-Inspired Play Invitation

Collect • Count • Create • Tell

A simple, open-ended play invitation inspired by Gruffalo Granny, designed for little hands and big imaginations. Children collect natural treasures, add them to Granny’s pot, mix, scoop, squash and stir — creating their own weird and wonderful stew with no right recipe and no end product needed.

Through play, children naturally explore early maths, language, fine motor skills, sensory exploration and storytelling, with opportunities for counting, quantity, more and less, full and empty, matching and sorting.

The pack includes:

🍁 A 5-page play inspiration booklet🥣 Simple set-up and resource ideas🔢 Early maths prompts and counting opportunities🗣️ Vocabulary to sprinkle naturally into play🌲 Ideas for extending the invitation outdoors and revisiting the story🧺 6 illustrated Granny’s Stew recipe cards for counting, collecting and creating

Use pine cones, sticks, leaves, conkers, wooden slices, feathers and whatever treasures your children discover. Change the ingredients, add water, take it outdoors or strip it right back and revisit another day.

Set it up. Watch. Listen. Adapt. Revisit.

Perfect for childminders, nurseries, preschools and EYFS settings looking for meaningful story-inspired play without creating an activity simply for activity’s sake.