Welcome to my second Summer round up of free activity sheets from authors and illustrators – whether the rain is continuing to pour where you are, or you just need to keep the kids happy for half an hour whilst you get on with something else, hopefully there’s something for you here today.
Click on the relevant image or coloured link to be taken to activity sheets you can download.
Ethan Long has colouring in, word searches and mazes to go with his very funny books, great for emerging readers, fabulous for all the family to have a giggle over.
Over at Jez Alborough’s website you can find the Hug Club, packed with drawing games, quizzes, colouring in and more.
Leigh Hodgkinson has some wonderfully inventive activities for you to download (you’ll need to click on the button, and then on “Crafty Bits”). I particularly like the cut out Colin in a box…
If your kids are fans of the books by Andrew Norriss, including Aquila and The Portal, you shouldn’t miss this page packed full of activities relating to the books. There are crosswords, word searches and quizzes.
Publishers Maverick Books have over 20 different activity sheets to download, going with all of their different books. There’s a Mrs MacCready to colour in, a How to draw your own Beastie tutorial, Dog Detective quiz sheets and more.
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*Picture book for preschoolers through second graders, contemporary fiction
*Little girl as main character
*Rating: Smile by Leigh Hodgkinson will make you smile. One of the cutest picture books I’ve seen recently–I think kids and adults will love it!
Short, short summary:
Sunny is usually happy! But today, she can’t find her smile. Where could it have gone? She can’t find it under her bed or in her room, so she cleans her room to look for it better. She wonders if somebody took it, but who would do that? Her goldfish? No way! The twins? Nope! Maybe she lost it in the big, wide world somewhere. So, she continues looking for it and gets caught up in having fun with her dog along the way. And then the twins point out–she found her smile!
So, what do I do with this book?
1. Ask students to draw a picture of what makes them smile. Then ask them to bring in a photo of them smiling. Attach the photo to the illustration, and post these on a bulletin board that says: “What Makes Us Smile!”
2. You can have a great discussion with young children about this book. Why does Sunny lose her smile? How does she find it again? Have children ever lost their smile like Sunny does? You can even get into discussions such as: “What does it mean to be happy or sad?”
3. One of the cutest illustrations in Smile! by Leigh Hodgkinson is when Sunny makes a wanted poster for her smile. Ask students to make a wanted poster for something–it can be Sunny’s smile, a friend, a pet, or so on. This activity can also be a bulletin board or classroom display.
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