A great animal role play activity pack, full of printable things for children to make plus role play set up ideas, including costume ideas and story scripts. Included in our animal role play activity pack are the following activities: *character masks, 10 gorgeous woodland characters brought to life as masks for children to cut out and design as they like. Add lolly sticks or elastic or ribbon for use. Print onto card for a longer lasting mask. *role play set up activities and ideas to do with the children, from creating backdrops, to displays and costume making ideas. *role play prompts, speech bubbles with the words the animals use, to prompt children to retell the story. *play script worksheet, for children to use as a prompt for writing/mark making their own story scripts, wonderful for encouraging making meaningful marks and for story reading aloud. This activity pack is designed for use alongside our eco storybook ‘Away’, however it will also work as a stand alone pack. The animals find a ‘something’ in the woods which doesn’t belong there, they explore what it could be before realising that it is rubbish and explore what they can do with it.

In our Christmas activity pack for Away we have included three festive activities: *Four colour in Christmas cards *Letter to Father Christmas *Animal snap card templates All of our activity packs are available for download and come in a PDF for you to print out at home/school. These lovely activities are sure to get little ones ready for the festive season, with things to make and do. We’ve used the animal illustrations as drawn by Thistlemoon for our eco storybook Away.

Included in this pack are three specific activities relating to the habitats of our woodland characters, with downloadable and printable resources, including illustrations of our woodland characters. Included in this activity pack: *Woodland animal cut outs, ideal for making into puppets or as moveable display characters and as a basis for discussion around animal habitats *Pictures of a variety of habitats for use with the animal cut outs, exploring where the animals might live *Matching animals to their habitat sheet *Choose a character and draw where they live/their habitat Ideal for using as a basis for discovering more about the habitats of our woodland friends. Our habitats activity pack can be used in classroom, at home or out and about, as part of a wider exploration of animal habitats.

In our storytelling activity pack, we have three focused activities available in PDF form, for download. The pack contains: *Illustrations of woodland characters flashcards and descriptive words. Ideal for using as a basis for discovering more about writing, telling stories and including our woodland friends. *Character/setting worksheet to focus on creating own characters and setting for children’s own story *Story writing prompt template Our storytelling activity pack can be used in classroom, at home or out and about, as part of a wider exploration of stories, structure and how to write/tell children’s own story. The pack is designed using the illustrations from our eco storybook ‘Away’ however, they can be equally used as stand alone activity packs.

In this measuring activity pack there are three great activities; *animal sizing activity - cut out and put the animals into different size orders, eg small, medium, large, largest, smallest etc *animal facts flashcards - with facts relating to the size of each animal, complete with tasks to support children in measuring and comparing sizes to other objects *height chart - with our woodland animals added for reference, children can measure themselves and compare sizes. This activity pack can be used as part of a topic on measuring and will encourage the use of measuring words and different types of measurements.