Booktime 2009 Activity Sheets

Illustrations © Ed VereFor fun activities and more, visit www.booktime.org.uk

You may photocopy this sheet

Beginning soundsWith the help of an adult, cut out the squares below. Turn over two pictures. Say the words. Do they start with the same sound? If they do, keep them. If not,

turn them back over and let someone else have a turn.

b s f

p c

c b

f l p

l

s



Counting fansThere are 5 fans chasing Mr Big,

but 2 of them can’t keep up with his car. How many fans are left chasing?



Happy or sad?Pretend you are Mr Big and you are thinking

about sad or happy things. Draw what he might be thinking about in the bubbles.



How do I feel? Using the following pages, look together at the pictures of Mr Big’s face.

• Talk about how he is feeling in each one.

• Put the faces in order to show from saddest to happiest.

• Discuss what kinds of thought Mr Big might be having at each point.

• Ask children to show how happy or sad they sometimes feel and to explain why.

• Let them choose a picture of Mr Big and then draw how they look when they are feeling the same emotion. They can also draw about what makes them feel that way.

• Ask the children to make a happy, sad, angry or sorry face and the rest of the group can guess what emotion they are trying to show?











Make yourown book

Cut out the pictures and put them in order to make a zig-zag book.



Making musicLet children listen to different types of music – including Mr Big’s type of traditional jazz and blues. Talk about how the music makes them feel. If there’s space, allow the children to move and dance and clap to the music. Use percussion instruments to join in. You can explore what kinds of music make you feel:

• Happy

• Sad

• Calm

• Excited

Give the children vocabulary for describing different types of sound:

• Loud

• Soft

• Long

• Short

• Quick

• Slow

Make patterns with instruments for the children to copy and join in. Help them to make sounds for running, skipping, walking and hopping.

Children might make their own instruments. They can make:

• Rubber band and cereal box guitars

• Rice or pasta and toothpaste box shakers • Sand and metal tray swooshing instruments

• Pencil and plastic tub drums

Using plain labels let the children draw and colour their own Mr Big stickers to use to decorate their instruments.



Order of sizeWith help from a grown-up, cut out the animals.

Put them in a row from the biggest animal to the smallest.



Some moreactivities to explore

Here are some activities which you may find appropriate for some children with additional needs.

Audio activities

• Read Mr Big aloud, and encourage the children to join in shouting the word “big” every time it comes up in the story.

• Give each child an instrument or a rainmaker, and encourage them to play or shake it every time they hear the word “big”.

• To make it more complicated, you could give children different words from the story, and ask them to play their instrument when they hear their particular word read out. Or, if the children can see the book give them a colour and encourage them to play their instrument when they can see their colour on the page, for example pink, yellow, brown.

Tactile activities

• Use different materials to make a tactile picture of Mr Big and his friends.

• Each child could choose an animal from the story to make.

• Make a tactile picture to discuss the difference between “big” and “small” things.

• Make or find animal toys (or other objects) of different sizes and challenge children to place them in order from largest to smallest.

Visual activities

• Pick something for children to spot on each page (e.g. a football, a banana skin, etc.)

• Encourage the children to shout “Mr Big” every time they see him on a page.

• Focus on colours and ask children to spot a green frog, a yellow bird, etc.



Friends come inall shapesand sizes

“A TRUE friend can come in any shape or SIZE…”

Read the big book version of Mr Big together. Reread it, looking at the pictures which might show friends. For example:

• Find both foxes on pages 4-5

• Which two animals are looking through the window on pages 6-7?

• Who was on the bus on pages on pages 8-9?

• Who was in the pool on pages 10-11?

Is it likely that a cat and a frog might go swimming together?

• Find things that are different about the cat and the frog

• Find things that are the same about them

• Do the same for the characters on pages 18-19: the monkey, the lion and the bird. What’s different about them and what’s the same?

Talk about the children’s friends.

• Do they have to be exactly the same as their friends?

• Do they have to look the same or dress the same?

• Do they have to always like the same things?

• Do they have to always want to do the same things?

• Children can then complete the attached sheet, writing or drawing things they like doing with their friends.

Discuss with the children the beginning of the story. Mr Big feels lonely, different and left out. Encourage the children to think about what that must be like and whether they have ever felt this way. What would they do if they thought someone was feeling lonely, different or left out?

• Does everyone feel a bit scared or a bit different sometimes?

• Ask children to think about how they could help to make Mr Big feel better.

• What would they say to him?

• How do you feel when you help to make someone else happy?



My friend’s name is

_______________________________________________

This is my friend

My friend likes

_______________________________________________My friend can

_______________________________________________

My name is

_______________________________________________

This is me

I like

_______________________________________________I can

_______________________________________________Illustrations © Ed Vere

For fun activities and more, visit www.booktime.org.ukYou may photocopy this sheet



Up the stairsMr Big has to carry his piano up the stairs

to his home. Try counting how many more stairshe has to climb. You can then trace over the numbers.

12

34

56

7

Different colouredrhymes

Look at some rhymes for different colours.

RED: bed, head, tedBLUE: glue, shoe, two

GREEN: bean, queen, clean

Read “Awkward Child” on page 26 of The Booktime Book of Fantastic First Poems. Write your own version using a

different colour.

• Use the colour rhyming in lines 2 and 4.

• Add the colour that rhymes in line 4.

Awkward Child

She fell into the bathtub

She fell into the ________________

She fell into the _________________

And came out __________________

Illustrations © Nick SharrattFor fun activities and more, visit www.booktime.org.uk


Moon and sunpoem

Read “Nutter” on page 21 of The Booktime Book of Fantastic First Poems.

What else might the moon and sun look like?

Fill in your ideas to make your own poem:

The moon is __________________________

The sun is ___________________________

The earth is going round the twist

And I’m _____________________________.

The moon is like . . .

The sun is like . . .

Illustrations © Nick SharrattFor fun activities and more, visit www.booktime.org.uk


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