About Us
Storytime Scarves began at home. After my children's Trinidadian grandmother passed away, I found myself thinking deeply about connection, memory, belonging, and how children hold onto family stories when the people connected to them are no longer physically here.
I wanted to create something my children could return to freely through play. Something that carried familiarity, imagination, warmth and story without needing to explain everything in words.
The first scarf was created for them. I placed it in the room without instruction and watched what happened next. That moment stayed with me.
Because after years of working in early years as both a childminder and practitioner, I've come to believe something deeply:
Children are constantly trying to understand themselves and the world around them.
They explore people, places, cultures, communities and relationships through play.
They ask questions.
They notice differences.
They make connections.
They build meaning.
And they rarely do it in a straight line.
Children do not connect to identity, belonging and story through explanation alone.
They connect through play.
Through movement, imagination, curiosity, familiarity and the freedom to explore ideas in their own way.
At Storytime Scarves, our role is not to tell children what to think.
Our role is to create opportunities for wonder.
To offer invitations to play, question, imagine and explore.
Because when children are given space to wonder, they begin to discover who they are, where they belong and how they connect to the world around them.
And that is where belonging begins.
Every Storytime Scarf is designed with that belief at its heart.