Make a class book about dinosaurs including pictures and facts. Read some non-fiction books about dinosaurs. Harry was only able to reclaim his dinosaurs from the Lost Property Man because he could recite all their names. Look at the names of the dinosaurs in the Harry books and let children practise saying them together. Dinosaur dictionaryĬhildren are fascinated by the names and features of different dinosaurs. Invite them to hide the dinosaurs in the sand for each other to find. Let children use brushes to clean the dinosaurs they find. Talk about archaeologists and the work they do digging up remains and discovering about the past. As they dig they will find different dinosaurs. Secretly hide lots of small toy dinosaurs in the sand tray or tuff spot.Īsk children to use the buckets, spades and tools to make castles and other buildings. Provide scales so they can weigh the different loads. Go outside and challenge them to try carrying buckets of water, sand or even ice and snow. Suggest children choose different items to carry in their buckets over the obstacle course: wooden bricks, toy cars, soft toys or Lego. They learn some facts about dinosaurs and make a dictionary.They focus on comparing the weights of different materials.Children persevere with carrying different materials in the buckets.Let children take them home to tickle their families. Make tickle monsters out of yellow paper or felt. Let children take turns lifting flaps, and pulling tabs, to reveal the tickle monster. Use the character of the tickle monster to enjoy some tickling fun Act out the story moving in different ways as they change. A surprise ‘change’ at the end involves all the animals ‘changing’ into their pyjamas and going to bed. This includes using her truck, a train, boat, whale, plane, dumper truck, bike, and racing car as more and more animals join in the adventure. Miss Lollipop tried to cheer Tiger up by taking him on a birthday ride. All changeĮnjoy chanting the repeated refrain as you share All Change. Make up some more adventures for Harry and his dinosaurs to share. Let children select their favourite Harry story by voting and display the results on a pie or bar chart. Harry's adventuresĬhoose some other Harry stories to share such as …go to school, at the museum, go wild, have a happy birthday, go on holiday, make a splash, romp in the swamp or first sleep over. When you shout ‘stomp’ the children all stop, stamp their dinosaur feet and shout ‘stomp’. The Stegosaurus could crawl slowly and stiffly on all fours. The T'rex could walk on two legs using big strides holding two finger claws in front of them. Choose two dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus Rex and Stegosaurus and create a movement for each. In a big room, ask the children to find a space to stand in. This game inspired by the Harry and the bucketful of dinosaurs stories is based on ‘Beans’. Set up scales so that the children can weigh buckets and contents. How will they price the buckets? Can they write simple number labels for them? On different shelves or in drawers provide lots of different items for children to sort and place in buckets.
Encourage children to sort them according to size or material. Vary the sizes and the materials of the buckets: plastic, metal and paper. This can be used as a loose-parts activity. Set up a shop in the role-play area selling buckets. Ask children to carry their bucket up and down the steps, through the tunnel, along the balance beam and in and out of the cones without dropping a dinosaur! The bucket store Set up an obstacle course, inside or outside, using steps, tunnel, balance beam and cones. Let them count the dinosaurs and talk about the different names. Invite children to choose a bucket and place in it an agreed number of plastic dinosaurs. Read Harry and the bucketful of dinosaurs. They re-enact the story of All Change by moving like different vehicles.They practise combining different movements with ease and fluency.Children carefully carry a bucket of dinosaurs along an obstacle course.Use some of these books to promote children's physical development through lots of activities using buckets and different materials, (including toy dinosaurs of course), tackling an obstacle course, dinosaur and robot movement games, handling interactive books, acting out stories, a pyjamas race, and much more. He has also written several amazing interactive books with flaps to lift, levers to pull and dials to turn: The Tickle Monster and The Bedtime Bear, both illustrated by Axel Scheffler, of Gruffalo fame. With more than a hundred books to his name, Ian Whybrow is a popular children's author, best known for his classic stories about Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs.
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