Booktime 2009 Activity Sheets

Beginning sounds
With the help of an adult, cut out the squares below.

Turn over two pictures. Say the words. Do they start
with the same sound? If they do, keep them. If not,
turn them back over and let someone else have a turn.
b s f
l p c
c s b
f l p
Illustrations © Ed Vere
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You may photocopy this sheet
Counting fans
There are 5 fans chasing Mr Big,
but 2 of them can’t keep up with his car.
How many fans are left chasing?
Happy or sad?
Pretend you are Mr Big and you are thinking
about sad or happy things. Draw what he might
be thinking about in the bubbles.
How do I feel?
Using the following pages, look together at the pictures of Mr Big’s face.
•• Talk about how he is feeling in each one.

Put the faces in order to show from saddest to happiest.
•• Discuss what kinds of thought Mr Big might be having at each point.
Ask children to show how happy or sad they sometimes feel
and to explain why.

• Let them choose a picture of Mr Big and then draw how they look when they
are feeling the same emotion. They can also draw about what makes them
feel that way.

• Ask the children to make a happy, sad, angry or sorry face and the rest of the
group can guess what emotion they are trying to show?
Make your
own book
Cut out the pictures and put them in order to make
a zig-zag book.
Making music
Let children listen to different types of music – including Mr Big’s type of
traditional jazz and blues. Talk about how the music makes them feel.
If there’s space, allow the children to move and dance and clap to the music.
Use percussion instruments to join in.

You can explore what kinds of music make you feel:
••Happy
Sad
••
Calm
Excited
Give the children vocabulary for describing different types of sound:

••
Loud
Soft
••
Long
Short
••
Quick
Slow
Make patterns with instruments for the children to copy and join in.
Help them to make sounds for running, skipping, walking and hopping.
Children might make their own instruments. They can make:
•• Rubber band and cereal box guitars

Rice or pasta and toothpaste box shakers
••
Sand and metal tray swooshing instruments
Pencil and plastic tub drums
Using plain labels let the children draw and colour their own Mr Big stickers
to use to decorate their instruments.
Order of size
With help from a grown-up, cut out the animals.
Put them in a row from the biggest animal
to the smallest.
Some more
activities to explore
Here are some activities which you may find appropriate for some children with
additional needs.
Audio activities
• Read Mr Big aloud, and encourage the children to join in shouting the word
“big” every time it comes up in the story.
• Give each child an instrument or a rainmaker, and encourage them to play
or shake it every time they hear the word “big”.
• To make it more complicated, you could give children different words from
the story, and ask them to play their instrument when they hear their
particular word read out. Or, if the children can see the book give them a
colour and encourage them to play their instrument when they can see their
colour on the page, for example pink, yellow, brown.
Tactile activities
••Use different materials to make a tactile picture of Mr Big and his friends.
Each child could choose an animal from the story to make.
•Make a tactile picture to discuss the difference between “big” and
“small” things.
•Make or find animal toys (or other objects) of different sizes and challenge
children to place them in order from largest to smallest.
Visual activities
•Pick something for children to spot on each page (e.g. a football, a banana
skin, etc.)
•Encourage the children to shout “Mr Big” every time they see him on
a page.
•Focus on colours and ask children to spot a green frog, a yellow bird, etc.
Friends come in
all shapes
and sizes
“A TRUE friend can come in any shape or SIZE…”
Read the big book version of Mr Big together. Reread it, looking at the
pictures which might show friends. For example:
•• Find both foxes on pages 4-5

Which two animals are looking through the window on pages 6-7?
•• Who was on the bus on pages on pages 8-9?
Who was in the pool on pages 10-11?
Is it likely that a cat and a frog might go swimming together?

••
Find things that are different about the cat and the frog
Find things that are the same about them
•
Do the same for the characters on pages 18-19: the monkey, the lion and
the bird. What’s different about them and what’s the same?
Talk about the children’s friends.
••Do they have to be exactly the same as their friends?
Do they have to look the same or dress the same?
••
Do they have to always like the same things?
Do they have to always want to do the same things?
•
Children can then complete the attached sheet, writing or drawing things
they like doing with their friends.
Discuss with the children the beginning of the story. Mr Big feels lonely,
different and left out. Encourage the children to think about what that must
be like and whether they have ever felt this way. What would they do if they
thought someone was feeling lonely, different or left out?
•• Does everyone feel a bit scared or a bit different sometimes?

Ask children to think about how they could help to make Mr Big feel better.
•• What would they say to him?
How do you feel when you help to make someone else happy?
My friend’s name is
_______________________________________________
This is my friend
My friend likes
_______________________________________________
My friend can
_______________________________________________
My name is
_______________________________________________
This is me
I like
_______________________________________________
I can
_______________________________________________
Up the stairs
Mr Big has to carry his piano up the stairs
to his home. Try counting how many more stairs
he has to climb. You can then trace over the numbers.
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Different coloured
rhymes
Look at some rhymes for different colours.
RED: bed, head, ted

BLUE: glue, shoe, two
GREEN: bean, queen, clean
Read “Awkward Child” on page 26 of The Booktime Book

of Fantastic First Poems. Write your own version using a
different colour.
• UseAddthethecolour rhyming in lines 2 and 4.

• colour that rhymes in line 4.
Awkward Child
She fell into the bathtub
She fell into the ________________
She fell into the _________________
And came out __________________
Illustrations © Nick Sharratt

Moon and sun
poem
Read “Nutter” on page 21 of The Booktime
Book of Fantastic First Poems.
What else might the moon and sun look like?
The moon The sun

is like . . . is like . . .
Fill in your ideas to make your own poem:
The moon is __________________________
The sun is ___________________________
The earth is going round the twist
And I’m _____________________________.
Illustrations © Nick Sharratt


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Beginning sounds

With the help of an adult, cut out the squares below.

•• Talk about how he is feeling in each one.

Use percussion instruments to join in.

Give the children vocabulary for describing different types of sound:

Children might make their own instruments. They can make:

•• Rubber band and cereal box guitars

•• Find both foxes on pages 4-5

Is it likely that a cat and a frog might go swimming together?

•• Does everyone feel a bit scared or a bit different sometimes?

RED: bed, head, ted

Read “Awkward Child” on page 26 of The Booktime Book

• UseAddthethecolour rhyming in lines 2 and 4.

She fell into the bathtub

She fell into the ________________

She fell into the _________________

And came out __________________

Illustrations © Nick Sharratt

What else might the moon and sun look like?

The moon The sun

Fill in your ideas to make your own poem:

The moon is __________________________

The sun is ___________________________

The earth is going round the twist

And I’m _____________________________.

Illustrations © Nick Sharratt

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