📖🌟 5 Fun Ways to Enjoy Storytime at Home
There’s nothing more magical than sharing a story with your child. Storytime isn’t just about reading words on a page, it’s about creating a moment of connection, sparking imagination, and making memories together.
Here are five fun and creative ways to enjoy storytime at home:
🎭 1. Bring Stories to Life with Voices and Expressions
Make the characters leap off the page by giving each one a unique voice. Add excitement by changing your tone, whispering during suspenseful parts, or exaggerating expressions to make your child giggle.
💡 Tip: Let your child create sound effects (animal noises, clapping, stomping) to make the story interactive.
🏡 2. Create a Storytime Corner
Design a cozy reading nook at home with pillows, blankets, and soft lighting. Having a special “storytime spot” makes reading feel extra special and invites your child to snuggle up with a book.
🕺 3. Add Movement and Role Play
Encourage your child to act out scenes from the story. Pretend to fly like birds, stomp like dinosaurs, or twirl like ballerinas.
✨ Role play helps children connect with the story and boosts comprehension.
✏️📖 4. Make a Book Together!
One of the most exciting ways to extend storytime is to help your child create their very own book. All you need is paper, crayons, and imagination.
Here’s how:
🧠 Brainstorm a Story: “What would you like to write about today? A dragon? A puppy? A spaceship?”
📖 Give It a Title: Example: The Adventures of Sparkle the Unicorn.
✍️ Add the Author’s Name: Encourage them to proudly write “By (Your Child’s Name)” on the cover.
🎨 Design the Cover: Draw the main character or scene and color it in.
📄 Fill the Pages: Write one or two sentences per page, let your child illustrate.
💡 Fun Fact: Every famous author started with one idea. Your child is already an author when they put their name on their own story!
👉 Download your free printable DIY Book Cover Template here: DIY_Single_Page_Book_Cover_Template
👨👩👧 5. Start a Family Storytelling Tradition
Take turns making up your own stories. Children love when parents join their imagination and invent characters, adventures, or silly endings together. It builds creativity and makes for lots of laughs!
🌟 Bonus: Spark the Author Inside Your Child
✨ Remind your child:
“There’s an author inside you.”
“Every drawing you make could be the beginning of a story.”
“Your ideas matter, and books are a way to share them with the world.”
📸 Consider framing or saving their homemade book cover, it’s a memory you’ll both treasure.
📚 Ready to Start?
If you’d like a book to begin with, check out my own children’s book If I Were a Bird / Si yo fuera un pájaro, which blends imagination, poetry, and bilingual learning in a beautiful way.
