Resources
Download all the activity sheets and session ideas based on this year's Booktime story book, Why Elephant has a Trunk, from the Tinga Tinga Tales series created by Claudia Lloyd.
Zipped folder of 22 PDFs: 14.9 mb
Download a zipped folder of all 8 activity sheets and session ideas based on Face Painting by Monica Hughes.
Zipped folder of 8 PDFs: 4.09mb.
Craft and movement activity: making and playing musical instruments.
Matching game: Mix up all the pictures and put them in front of you with the animals facing down. Turn the first picture over: how quickly can you match up the animal from the book with its photo?
Reading the Booktime books: Colour in these pictures from the story, then carefully cut them out. Stick the pictures in order on a new piece of paper to show what happened in the story.
Craft: Stick Elephant on to a piece of card, then colour in and cut out your own Tinga Tinga Tales mask. Stick a lollipop stick to the back, and you’re ready to swing your trunk like Elephant.
Sharing a book with a child is fun. It’s a time for closeness, laughing and talking together.
The Reading with your Child booklet is also available in translation to multiple languages.
You can also download translated versions of the Reading with your child booklet.
New research published today (9 November 2011) reveals that 98% of primary school teachers are concerned that not enough reading for pleasure is taking place in some of the nation’s homes and that this is having an impact on the time pupils spend reading and talking about books in school. Booktime gives 1.38 million books to reception-aged children in 2011.
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Sharing a book with a child is fun. It’s a time for closeness, laughing and talking together.
The Reading with your Child booklet is also available in translation to multiple languages.
A template letter for you to adapt and send home, to introduce this year's Booktime book packs to parents and encourage them to share their books with children at home. Includes a paragraph inviting parents to a Booktime event at school, for you to adapt or delete as applicable.
Craft and mark making activity: creating masks with own designs.
Speaking and listening: completing sentences. Mark making: drawing activity.
Speaking and listening: song and actions based on the book.
Speaking and listening activity: using adjectives to play a guessing game.
Movement activity: imitating and describing types of movement.
