Fancy Dress Jungle

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All the jungle animals love wearing fancy dress – but who’s hiding under each disguise? Children will love lifting the sturdy, die-cut pages to find out. Tiger has come as a cowgirl, Lion is a pop star, and Parrot’s dressed as a pineapple

Teaching Ideas and Resources:

English

• Write a story about one of the characters in the story, e.g. a crocodile that wears armour, a cowboy tiger.
• Investigate the rhyming in the book. Can you make a list of all the rhyming words?
• Write a description of one of the fancy dress costumes.
• Write a diary entry from the point of view of the pop star lion (or the pumpkin parrot!).
• Create a new version of the book about animals that live in a different habitat (e.g. Fancy Dress Ocean, Fancy Dress Desert).

Maths

• Explore the illustrations and look for shapes. Could you count each type and make a graph to show the results?

Computing

• Take a digital photo of yourself and use painting software to add a fancy dress costume to the picture.

Design Technology

• Create a new page for the book in which another animal is wearing a fancy dress costume that can be removed.
• Use craft materials to make a fancy dress costume for a cuddly toy animal.
• Find out about different ‘pop-up’ techniques and create your own pop-up book.

Art

• Look at the background textures on each page. What do you notice about them? Can you try to create some of your own?

Music

• Compose some music to accompany the fancy dress parade.

Geography

• Find out about parades that take place around the world. Where are they? What are they for?