WORLD BOOK DAY > } Costume ideas +” Encourage cldron to come dressed a prstes. They could snake pirate hats, telescopes, treasure maps and cary sot toy pare, * Optional actiotty:Childcon could be encouraged to do- tate £110 dressup to fundraise for Book Aid International booksidorg/worldbockday THE PIRATES NEXT DOOR by Jonny Duddle iusinscssy sense PREPARATION Bag ‘Things that could be set up in a classroom a 'Setup apts ship roleplay area Uno ome arge cardboard bores to crest he sides ofthe ship and orate with porthole nd pained waves Ad tal cardboard tube fra made with pate ag eto top. Provide ey telescope or catdbeurd tube pzate cours trerure mapeto drew pie ores endteaurechests veh psi con oy vipna UN ENy Start of the Day + Totroduce World Book Day to the children and read The Piratas Next Door together. Encourage the children to Iisten carefully to the story and look a the illustrations After reading the story encourage the children to talk about their favourite parte ofthe story and why they ike them. Morning activity ideas © — Encourage children to write a message to go inside a bottle. ‘What message would they write? Who would they write to? Wiriten messages could be sent to another person inthe class oa frend in another class. They could be placed inside lean plastic bots and delivered of found + Drawa cross on some envelopes or boxes and place some chocolate coins or sal sveets inside each one. Then hide the packages around the setting Challenge the children to find all ofthe hidden packages and look what is inside, Count how ‘much treasure the Jolley Rogers pete have left the children and explore how to share the teesure equally. Encourage children to tell the story to someone at home tnd talk about their favourite part Children could find out some facts about pirates to share with the group. Lunch/snack time ideas 4 Malce some gold coin bisuita by making some simple decorate them with yellow icing and sugar edible gold liter. + Phratepizas could also be nade, Decorate a pzza using a varey of toppings t look like pirate fectures suchas biscuits and sprinkles: tomatoes for bandana, sweetcorn f and slices of ealarl for eye patches, a beard, olives for eyes Afternoon activity ideas + Stick some paperelins onto the back of some gold ola pletues and bury them in. tay of sand. Encourage children to-use some simple tools, including magnets to find the busied tevarue, Th coin could have nurmbere ot eter writen on them for extra activities, such as sequencing numbers or letter recognition + Provide avangeofjunlemodelling materiale for shldzen toe tomake pirate ship models, treasure chests or telescopes. To end the day ‘© Playa listening and atention game by enceuraging the children to follow come simple cues (maybe written by the Jolley-Regers) to find some treasure - for example a box of chocolate coins to share! + Encourage parente to visit thelr local bookshop with thelr} children to redeem their £1 World Book Day book token Bf they have ong, to get a FREE World Book Day book Ts BOOK tokens