owl babies and floppy in the dark
 

i am using the above two books as a starting point for my dark theme. was wondering if anyone had used these titles before and what ideas you came up with.

What age group are you working with?

Could you make a dark area - a den? Add wind-up torches, night time animals such as foxes, owls, hedgehogs..., luminous stars, fairy lights etc Maybe have a 'treasure hunt' in the 'dark'?

Make silhouette puppets - children could try to identify different animals (or everyday objects) by their silhouettes.

How to make paint darker - experiment

Matching babies and their mothers

Owl song - "Something is sitting up in the tree, with 2 big eyes staring at me..." - great for Twit-Twoo noises! And obviously a bit of Twinkle Twinkle!

Hope that gets you started

Owl babies is great for talking about emotions especially with new starters who are frightened that mummy is not going to come back :cheerful:

We made a great collage of owls on black paper. Children acted out the story. We made pelamism cards for matching and spot the difference. Did lots of PRSN measuring of sizes of children. Looked at eyes and made eye colour graphs of children. We read up about owls and did a learning wall for a week. I read 'the owl who was afraid of the dark' to my group (older children). er..... can't think of any more - I'll come back if I remember!

Oh- we looked at other nocturnal animals, like badgers etc and made masks either badger, owl or fox - no-one wanted bat!