Pre-School Activity Book
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Draw yourself doing the Summer Reading Club—Untangled Tales!
Scan and send your picture to [email protected] to be uploaded to our National Picture Gallery! Be sure to include your first name, state and age in your email! (e.g. Wolf, QLD, 14)
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1 = GREEN 2 = YELLOW 3 = BROWN 4 = ORANGE 5 = RED
Colour by numbersIn fairytales frogs turn into princes and ugly ducklings become beautiful swans. Colour in Frog and Duckling. What do you think they are reading about this summer?
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Join the dots to make this picture complete!Can you name some fairytale characters who might live here?
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Fairytale ABCsTrace the letters, then colour them in; A story’s legendary magic comes from the characters and objects within!
WizardsVasilissa the Brave (Slavic Folk Tale)
UnicornsTrolls
OgresNeptuneMermaids
Icarus (Greek Myth)
Hansel and Gretel
GoldilocksFairies
3 BearsPoison Apple
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Cinderella Dragons Elves
Jack and the Beanstalk
Kings Genie Lamp
Puss in Boots Queens Little Red Riding Hood
Snow White
Ye Xian (Chinese Cinderella)
Baba Yaga (Slavic Folk Tale)
RapunZel
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The wicked queen might have been crafty, but instead of poisoning apples, Snow White used them to make apple prints to decorate her house.
Can you do the same?
You will need:• 2–3applesofdifferentsizes• Water-basedpaints• Aknife• Sheetsofpaper• Afork• Anadulthelper
How to make them:• Askyouradulthelpertocutyourapplesin
halves and quarters with the knife. You might also want to make some apple rings
• Removetheseedsfromsomeorleavethemin—its up to you
• Putyourforkintotheskinnedsideoftheappleso it is easy to hold.
• Dipyourapplehalf/quarterintothepaint• Pressthepaintcoveredappleontothepaper• Lifttheappleoffthepaper• Addmoreapplestoyourpicture• Letpaintdry.
If you don’t have any dwarves to help you frame your work, ask your adult helper to assist you!
Snow White Apple Prints
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Fee, fie, foe, fum! There is a lot of measuring to be done!Can you find things that are longer than Jack’s footprint?
Things that are shorter?
And things that are the samesize?
Happy hunting!
Sincerely, The Giant
P.S. If you find Jack, let me know!
Longer The Same Shorter
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Fairytale Character SearchCan you find all of these fairytale characters in the word search? Colour in the words as you find them.
FROG KING MAGIC QUEEN CASTLE DRAGON ELF
A B E L F C
E F G H R I
D R A G O N
J K L M G Q
K I N G O U
P Q R S T E
C A S T L E
M A G I C N
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Rapunzel’s Hair“Rapunzel, Rapunzel, how long is your hair?” “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, what colour is your hair?”
Well, that is entirely up to you!
Materials you will need to colour and assemble Rapunzel’shair:
• Colouringmaterials(crayons,pencils,pens)• Scissors• StickyTapeorGlue• Anadult,friend,orhelpertoassistwithcuttingandgluing• ExtracopiesofRapunzel’shairextensions(p.11/12)**youmaywanttophotocopyextrapagesofRapunzel’shairextensionstomakeherhairreallyreallylong!
Assembling Rapunzel’s hair:1. Colour:Rapunzelonpage10
Rapunzel’shairextensionsonpage11/12 The prince on inside back cover
2. CutoutRapunzel’shairextensions(askanadulttohelpyou)3. StickRapunzelatthetopofawall.4. Stickherhairextensionsbelow5. Stick the prince at the bottom of the wall.
The Summer Reading Club would love to see your completed Rapunzels!Andwhatcoloursyou’veusedtocolourherhair.SendaphotoofyourcompletedRapunzel’s to [email protected]. We will post your pictures in our online gallery!
Be sure to include your first name, state and age in your email! (e.g.Rapunzel,NSW,5orKidsinTheCorner,StateLibraryQLD,QLD)
“Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your hair….”
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5 books! If you really liked one, why not write a review on the Summer Reading Club website.
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10 books – what a brilliant effort! If you like, collect a new reading log from your local library and keep reading.
