You can tell biblical stories with wooden figures. You will need some wooden blocks. An inexpensive way to get them is from a 1″x2″x8′ furring strip. Ask a friendly person at a place that sells lumber to cut these for you in several lengths: approximately 2, 4, 6, and 8 inches.

Instead of blocks you could use wooden doll pins. Purchase a bag of doll pins and a bag of doll pin stands from a craft store.

A more expensive option are figures designed for Godly Play presentations available online from Worship Woodworks.

Use the figures to tell the story. After modeling this, allow children to tell with the figures, to a partner, to the group, or by themselves.

Options:

1. Help a child pick out blocks for each main character in the story and write names on them with a marker.
2. Slowly read or tell the story while your child “plays it out” with the blocks.
3. You can use other blocks, as your creative imagination inspires you, to indicate minor characters in the story.
4. You can also write names of geographical locations on colored paper to designate different settings in the story: road, city, house, country, sea, etc.
5. Encourage children to move the blocks around whenever they like as a way of remembering the story on their own.

Other things your child could do:

1. Sand the blocks to make them smoother.
2. Draw, paint, or decorate the blocks with things that suggest the various characters: fabric for clothes, yarn for hair, “eyes” from a craft store, etc.