📖 Story Dice: Picture Dice for Telling and Writing Stories

How to use it

1. 1. Choose the number of dice

   Pick 3 for a short story or a young child, and up to 9 for a big challenge. The dice appear straight away, each with its own picture.

2. 2. Roll the dice

   Press Roll the dice. The pictures tumble and then settle. Every die gets a different picture, drawn from people and creatures, places, things, weather and nature, and actions.

3. 3. Hold the ones you like

   Press a die to hold it. It is marked Held and keeps its picture next time. Roll again to swap only the pictures you do not want.

4. 4. Tell or write the story

   Use every picture in a story, told out loud or written down. Press Print the sheet to get the dice with ruled lines underneath for writing.

Ideas for class and home

• A story round the table

  Roll five dice and take turns adding one sentence each, using one picture at a time. The story goes round until every picture has been used.

• Quick writing warm-up

  Start a writing lesson with a roll and five minutes of writing. The pictures give a start to children who say they have nothing to write about.

• Language practice

  Children learning a new language can name each picture and then say a sentence with all of them. Pictures need no translation, so it works in any language.

• Bedtime stories

  Let a child roll three dice and tell a short bedtime tale about them. Hold a favourite picture to bring the same character back tomorrow night.