Words & stories
Our photos
- Builds: Talking about the past
- 10 min
- Ages 2–5
- Calm
- No mess
From the house
- Family photos: an album, prints, or the photos on your phone
How to play
- Snuggle up and look at photos together.
- “Who’s that?” Let them name people and places.
- Tell the story of one photo: “This is when we went to the beach.”
- Then ask about their day: “What did you do today?”
Fit it to your child
- Easier: Name the faces and let them point: “Where’s Grandma?”
- Harder: They tell you the story of a photo: who was there, what happened first and what happened next.
Words to use
- who
- where
- when
- remember
- family
Why it helps
Talking about things that already happened, not just what’s in front of them, is a big language step and the start of telling their own stories.