Watch the dish run away with the spoon with our Hey Diddle Diddle Stick Puppets Resource! This activity allows children to retell the nursery rhyme demonstrating their understanding of the narrative using props to role-play the different characters. They also allow children to develop their fine motor skills through cutting out and constructing the puppets.

It covers the following objectives for children in reception:

Retell the story, once they have developed a deep familiarity with the text, some as exact repetition and some in their own words.