Life from the back of the pack : Brownies friend to animals badge

The girls were unable to go to the Brownies zoo trip, so to complete their friend to animals badge the had a number of tasks to do, one of which was to make a book about animals for a child.

I thought initially that we would staple some A4 paper together but I found these lovely sketchbooks at hobbycraft for £1.

Websites aimed at teachers are often a good source of ideas and materials, the animal pictures we used are from a site called, "primary treasure chest" , if you are looking for printable resources it is definatly worth having a look.

To speed up the process a little I produced a information sheet for each animal - I live, I eat, my young are called... Rebecca chose African animals and Sophie pets. We then used google to fill in the sheets for each animal.

We then used some of the resources to create a game, Sophie's was a simple counting game, Rebecca's was made by folding the flash card so only a portion of the animal was visible, they then had to guess the animal.

 

 

They had a few pages left so the drew a picture of their favourite animal and left space for the recipient to add their favourite animal.

 

They worked on it all week, tv was forgotten and they simply sat sticking and writing it was a brilliant project - though the books are safely stashed in their bedrooms rather than being given to a child!!