Library · Making Friends
starting with four words.
A child playing in the sandpit, your child standing a step away, wanting to join and not knowing how. Vivi turns that moment into a narrated, animated story your child stars in, with a greeting to practice: Hello! Can I join?
Who it helps
For children who hover at the edge of the playground, who want to play but freeze at the first words, and for children who do not pick up the unspoken rules of joining in. Parents of autistic and shy children often use a social story like this to give the opening line a shape before kindergarten.
It also shows what the other child might say back, including not now, and what to do then.
Wanting to join
Another child is building or digging. Your child watches and wants in.
The shy feeling
Feet stay put, the words stay in. The story names it: it is hard to know what to say.
Hello! Can I join?
A short greeting and a question, the same every time, said while standing close enough to be heard.
Playing together
The other child says yes, or says later, and the story shows what to do with each.
Yours, not ours. These are the moments a story like this usually walks through. You choose what goes into your child's, and read every page before it is animated.
Questions parents ask
In the mornings before kindergarten, a few times a week. The story gives your child the exact words, and a child who has said them at home is more likely to try them on the playground.
Yes. If your child says hi instead of hello, or wants to ask about a specific game, tell Vivi. You read every page before it is animated and ask for changes in plain words.
Give them one short script for joining in, practice it at home, and show them what the other child might do next. A social story with your child as the main character turns that script into a scene they can watch until it feels ready.
Your first story is free in your first 30 days. After that you buy credits: 3 for $9, 10 for $26 or 30 for $66. A story is 1 credit, and a Fully Animated story is 10 more. Your first routine, Choose-Along and plan are free, then 1 credit each. Bought credits never expire.
Your first story is free. Set up your child, start from Making Friends, and watch it together before bed.
Vivi Kids is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Carol Gray or Team Social Stories.
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