- Read the story using the book, joining in with repeated refrains
- Work together to build bridges using large and small blocks
- Discuss if the troll was kind or unkind
- How could we change the story?
- Use tweezers to pick up animals from the river
- Pop bubble wrap using fingers
- Create grass pushing green straws into polystyrene
- Match coloured matchsticks to spots on foam tubes
- Squeezing water from sponges
- Make troll soup in mud kitchen
- Hide goats and dig them out
- Make raft or boat for animals to cross river
- Musical story
- Compare sizes small, medium and large
- Act out story with props
- Wash muddy goats
