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Dogwood Crafts

Download the image and print on light to midweight white card for best end results. Cut out all the individual pieces, body, tail and ears and colour in as you like. You can also make the tail and the ears look more furry by snipping along the small lines. Fold the main body on the creases, middle, sides and neck. Next fold the tab on the bottom of the ears and place either side of the neck fold. Finally stick the tail in place under the main body. To stick you can use a paper glue stick or double sided tape for best results.

Dogwood tales folding characters

Dogwood Tales Character Masks

A great fun activity for your child is to dress up and to experience becoming a very different character. With these printable masks you can actually become one of the Dogwood Tales animals, act like them and make up fun tales that they would be part of. Friends or family can play different parts in the story and see what kind of stories they can think of for everyone to join in.

Download and print the masks on white card for best results. Cut out along the outlines and cut on the internal dotted lines to create snouts, eye holes and side holes to thread string through. Alternatively you can print the masks out on white paper and then stick this onto an old cereal box or similar for strength. Once cut out colour the masks in as you like and finally tie string or ribbon through the holes. You can tie on one side of the mask, measure around your child's head and tie through the other hole and you will have a mask to slip on and off easily.

Have fun with your story telling and acting!

Licky Licky Bookmark

What can be the most useful thing for a book lover like yourself? A handy dog or cat tongue to help you find the correct page between reading times! Twinkle, Thunder, Sweet and Jet love licking and love to help. To use, cut out around the rectangle lines or around each dog and tongue and colour in the blank ones. Can you think of any other ways to use your licky dog and cat tongues?

A Rainbow of Colours

How many colours can our see around you? Some people see colours differently from how most others see them and dogs see them even more differently. A dog can only see shades of blue, yellow and greys, but that's not a problem for them as their noses are much more important. They can build a picture in their heads and remember it by sniffing it instead of seeing it. This is how Twinkle Toes remembers places she has been or people and other animals she knows.

How many different colours did you see around you? Can you name them all?

Colouring in is such a fun thing to do so here we have a game that you can play to help you colour in a picture.

Download the colour blocks page and a picture page onto white card or paper. Cut out the colour blocks, mix them up and stack them colour side down. Turn over the top block and see what number is written next to the colour. Find that number on the picture and colour in that section, with crayons or similar, using the colour you turned over. You can use different shades of that colour if you have it, but try to stick to the colour on the card. Carry on turning over the blocks until you have a completed, beautiful and colourful picture.

Also here is a couple of colour theory sheets, it isn't nearly as scary as it sounds, it is fun and almost magical to test out.

Enjoy all the colours that you can see and make!

Dogwood Games

Fetch

Our dogs love to play 'fetch' with a ball, soft toy or any other dog toy. This is a game where you also can fetch things at home or in class. Download the three pages of letters and cut them out around the black line. There is a capital letter and a small letter version on each card and together they make up the whole of the alphabet. This game is best played with a child alongside an adult and can be played with other pairs of adult and child.

To play, lay all cards face down on the table or floor. If playing with others, take turns in turning over a letter. If there is only 1 child and adult, just turn over one card at a time then with the adult try to find an object nearby, that begins with that letter, to 'Fetch' back to the table/floor. To do this you should only bring back items that are safe or suitable to do so, otherwise just reference it. Alternatively you can search for the same letter in the words in our books or in your other books and read out the word that hosts the letter selected. This is great for making the link between alphabet and how it forms words. See how many letters your can complete, some will be very difficult or possibly impossible!

Another way to use the letters is to mix them up face up then work your way through the alphabet, find each next next card in the alphabet and place them in a row next to each other in alphabetical order. For a further challenge on this theme, create a grid of 26 blank spaces the same size as the cards. Mix all the cards up and place face down. Take turns in turning them over. Use the blank grid to place your card in it's proper place in the alphabet. To do this will mean counting through the alphabet grid saying the alphabet out loud until you find the correct space for your letters.

Fill Your Plate

All of the animals love a snack and one of those snacks is their biscuit shapes. This is a game of identifying and matching the shaped biscuit to it's place on the plate. Print out enough biscuit sheets and plate sheets to allow for each child playing to collect a full plate. Print on medium to heavy weight white card for durability. Cut out the plate shapes and each individual biscuit shape or a square around each biscuit if easier.

To play, sit in a circle and pass a bag full of biscuits round from person to person. In front of each child should be a collection plate. When the bag is passed to each child, they should select one biscuit from the bag without looking. If the biscuit they select matches a missing biscuit on their plate they can place it on top of the correct shape. If they already have that one, they have to put it back in and pass the bag on. Continue passing the bag around until every one had a full plate of matching biscuit shapes. This can be played in smaller groups if there are too many to play as a whole group timewise.

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