WORLD BOOK DAY IDEAS wy » / SHH! WE HAVE A PLAN \ J by Chris Haugton Costume ideas Encourage children to come dressed as one of the story, characters or a colourful bird. Children could wear blue’ coloured clothes and bobble hats. Alternatively, they could wear brightly-coloured clothes, a headband with a paper beak and decorate their arms with paper feathers to look liko wings, * Optional activity: Children could be encouraged to donate £1 to dress up, to fundraise for Book Aid International bookaid.org/worldbockday Things that could be set up in a classroom 2 Setupe eleplay woodland area Add copies of Sih’ We Hove alan and ther woodlend or oes hemed stories and non-fiction texts, photes or toys of woodland ‘animale and animal spotting activity sheets to complete Have tall paper trees and colouaful animal pictares hiding in the troae, Tho whole area eould have a blue theme to the colours shown in the story. Start of the Day Introduce World Book Day to the children and read ‘Shh! We Have a Plan together. Encourage the children to listen carefally tothe story and look at the illustrations, Encourage children to join in with the repeated parts and do actions and sound effects to enbanee the story. After reading the ator, encourage the children to talk about thei favourite parte and why they ike them. Morning activity ideas Create a story map to show the story events, Draw simple representations of the characters attempts to catch the bird, when the smallest character feeds the bird and the end of| the story ce the childten on awralleround an outside atea or a local park Encourage children to draw a picture af what they see or take a photo, Share your findings back at your setting and create a display about the animals you saw. + Encourage children ta tll the story to someone at heme cond talleahout thei favousite part © Childzen could find out some facts about birds or ‘woodlands to share with the group, Lunch/snack time ideas Make some bie shaped biseuits with the chdren, Once nude, cover with ing and then some colourful pines represent the birds’ colourful feathers, Small sweets could be teed forte eyo al bel Afternoon activity ideas «Provide colourful paper or fabric feathers forthe children to decorate thelr ovm colourful bled plture using palnt or crayons fin then adding festhers fr extra eect, + Talkabout the colours used inthe ook and look lovely at the ifhstations. Explore colour mixing to create different shades and tones of be then they could pat their own plete bated onthe story edding a eolorfl bird pleture as the inl etep To end the day Perform the story for another clas, visitor ora fend Encourage the chlaten reel the sory sing the story imap and ad ations to enhance ther eteling ‘© Talk sbout the childeen’s favourite paris of the story and why they lke thom. Alo tall about theie favourite aetvity from the day. ‘+ Encourage parents to visit their local bookshop with their children to redeem their g1 Werld Bock Day book token if} they have one, to get a FREE World Book Day book. NATION BOOK tokens