Oh i love nothing more than extending the ideas from a book that is loved by the children
It really helps me have activites for a week or 2.
I use a mixture of story sacks, crafts, outdoor activites, baking, looking at real life videos on you tube, songs etc. Sometimes i just use the story sack to bring the book to life as a reading it, even of o then do not do any further activity related to the book. here is my examples.
Dear Zoo.
All young children seem to love this book. So i made a story sack which contained the "crates" that the animals came it. The "crates" were actual boxes from around the home that i made into the crates, and inside each crate is apicture of each animal. This sack works really well for bringing the stpry to life for the little ones, but also works as a stand alone activity that they like to play with as it gives them lots of opportunity to explore opening and shutting lids/screwing tops etc. Here is a link to the thread i put on in relation to this.
http://www.childmindinghelp.co.uk/fo...boo-boxes.html
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
My lot loved the Very Hungry Caterpillar. So i used the book as a basis for lots of activity ideas over a 4 week period
1) got caterpillars and watched them grow and change onto butterflies
2) went bug hunting in garden for leaves that may have been eaten by caterpillars
3) painted hand print butterfly pictures
4) made butterfly templates and used different cut out shapes for their wings, which the children glued on
5) watched you tube videos of the caterpillars hatching from their cocoons
6) went to chester zoo and explored for ages the butterfly exhibit
7) caught and watched butterflies in the garden
8) cut egg boxes up and painted them like caterpillars
9) used the food pictures from the book and photocopied them to make a counting game
10) used ther same food pictures to pin on out washing line in garden to encourage counting
11) printed out the days of the week for my 3 year old and when i said a day of the week she would find the fruit that he had eaten that day
and most propbably lots more that i cant even remember.
Sometimes I just simply make laminated pictures of a book, and when I am going through it encourage the children to pick the relevant picture to the page of thhe book we are on. I find this helps keep them engaged for longer
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