Costume ideas Encourage children to come dressed as bears, Children, could wear brown clothes, make and wear aheadband with amall brown ears and maybe wear a paper hat too. Optional activity: Children could be encouraged t0 donate £1 to deus up, to fundraise for Book Aid International bockald.org/worldbookday Start of the Day Introduce what World Bock Day isto the children and read Want My Hat Back together. Encourage te children to listen carefully tothe story and look atthe ilustrations + Afterreading the story encourage the children to tall about their favourite parts and why they like them. Morning activity ideas + Creato a story map to show the story events: Daw simple representations ofthe story events showing the bear asking the other animals about hishat and what happens atthe ond ofthe stor. How ele could the characters have rescted? + Encourage children to design a new hat forthe bear What colous/ehape would itbe? What would itbe made out of? ‘Would it be waterproof? Lunch/snack time ideas + Children could male and decorate some chocalate cakes to look like the bear's head, with chocolate icing, chocolate roy y eae UNINC] # Encourage children to tell the story to someone at home ‘and talk shout their favourite part # Children could find ont some facts about bears, ‘woodlands or hate to shave with the group. WORLD BOOK DAY ~ LDEAS \\, I WANT MY HAT BACK by Jon Klassen 5) :3237-4:9-VN CO) NI ' WANT MY HAT Back JON KLASSEN Things that could be set up ina classroom Setup arole-play woodland area. Add copies of! Want (My Hat Bask and other woodland, forest or bear-themed. stories and non-fiction texts, photos a toys of woodland animals and a varlny of different hers Abbat shop roleplay area could aloo be created with a variety of different hats, hat design sheets, a mirror till with roleplay money pre labels and shopping liste to write Cameras could sleo be provided to encourage children to tako photos of each othor wearing differont hate Dutton ears and chocolate sprinkles for fur. A strawberry slice could be added to the top for the bear's red hat! Afternoon activity ideas To Provide e range of materials for children to use to make ‘shat, How will they make their hat the correct size, what type of het would they would like (eg a party hat, crown, ‘8 wizards bat, a chef's hat ora woolly hat), how it should be decorated and how wil they join the pieces together? Encourage children to use junk modelling materials construction toys to make different hats for soft toys in the setting end the day Perform the ser for another lass, visto ora rend Encourage the caren o etl the tory ung the sory reeling Fv cht parade - encourage children o wear hats they have made during the day. Encourage the children to take photo wearing theirhats and all about what they ke other the hats made by others in the group. Encourage parents to visit their local bookshop with their children to redeem their ¢1 World Book Day book token if they have one, to get a FREE World Book Day book. Ts BOOK tokens