D e l e c ta b l e a c t i v i t i e s

and game s featuring

Miss Petitfour
and her cats

Meet Miss Petitfour! She loves baking and making and

dancing with her cats, but most of all she loves to fly

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 Create your own purrfect cat profile

Minky, the littlest cat, looks as if she

stepped in snow when she was a kitten
Your Shyness believes she is descended Clasby wears a bobble hat,
and the snow never melted. She is all
from royalty. She wears a lace collar and knitted for him for his fifth birthday.
black except for her white paws and the
has silky fur, bright as a gold coin. He loves to draw and paint.
spots on her head and tail, where the
snow didn’t melt either.

Make your own Miss Petitfour’s cat!

Name: 

Description: 

Meet Miss Petitfour! She loves baking and making and

dancing with her cats, but most of all she loves to fly

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 Miss Petitfour’s cat pairs

Ask an adult to help you cut out these cards

Shuffle the cards and deal them out face-down on the table

Turn over two cards. If they match, remove the cards from the table and keep them in your ‘win’ pile. If
they don’t match, turn them back over and try to remember where they are for next time

Repeat until all the cards are matched up!

This game is fun to play on your own or taking it in turn with friends

Minky Minky Purrsia Purrsia

Misty Misty Taffy Taffy

More cards on the next page!

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dancing with her cats, but most of all she loves to fly

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 Miss Petitfour’s cat pairs

Pirate Pirate Hemdela Hemdela

Mustard Mustard Earring Earring

Grigorovitch Grigorovitch Captain Captain Captain Captain

More cards on the next page!

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dancing with her cats, but most of all she loves to fly

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 Miss Petitfour’s cat pairs

Captain Clothespin Captain Clothespin Your Shyness Your Shyness

Sizzles Sizzles Moutarde Moutarde

Captain Catkin Captain Catkin

Clasby Clasby

Meet Miss Petitfour! She loves baking and making and

dancing with her cats, but most of all she loves to fly

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 Miss Petitfour’s cake memory game

Everyone likes thinking about cakes – Miss Petitfour most of all! Gather a group of three or
more people and play this fun cake-filled memory game.
Sit in a circle and choose a person to start the game
The first person completes the following sentence: ‘I went to Miss Petitfour’s picnic and I ate …’
For example, ‘I went to Miss Petitfour’s picnic and I ate a currant toast squishy with butter.’
The second person then repeats that sentence and adds on another cake.
For example, ‘I went to Miss Petitfour’s picnic and I ate a currant toast squishy
with butter and a Bramley apple pie.’
 veryone takes it in turns to add another cake, and another, until someone can’t
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remember any more. That person then drops out of the game.
Repeat until you have a winner!

Meet Miss Petitfour! She loves baking and making and

dancing with her cats, but most of all she loves to fly

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 Miss Petitfour’s favourite words
The Adventures of Miss Petitfour is full of fascinating words – keep your own
list of favourite words and their meanings as you come across them!

meteorological circumstances the weather

debonair charming
eccentricity a quirky thing we like to do just because
festooning cleverly decorating things
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Meet Miss Petitfour! She loves baking and making and

dancing with her cats, but most of all she loves to fly

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 Books too silly ever to be written

‘Miss Petitfour and Mrs. Collarwaller spent many enjoyable hours drinking tea together in the bookshop and playing a
game they were both extremely fond of: thinking up titles for books too silly ever to be written, such as Beware, I’m Going
to Rob you Any Minute, or Warning: The Last Page Is Missing, or This Book is a Waste of Time, or How to Care
for the Fish in Your Shoe, or Don’t Bother, all the Pages are Stuck Together, or I Think I’m Asleep.’

Think of your own titles for books too silly ever to be written – the sillier the better!

Meet Miss Petitfour! She loves baking and making and

dancing with her cats, but most of all she loves to fly

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Write your own Miss Petitfour adventure

‘Sometimes all you must do is reach out your

hand for something wonderful to happen.’
Write a short story using this sentence as a starting point!
Try using some of the story words from the book:
THEN ONE DAY, MEANWHILE,
JUST THEN, UNFORTUNATELY …

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dancing with her cats, but most of all she loves to fly

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