The Magic Paintbrush by Julia Donaldson
Linking Activities
- Talk about China and Chinese New Year. How is the festival celebrated and why? Where is China? Talk about the similarities and differences between China and England.
- Taste some Chinese food and talk about what you like or dislike.
- Make a Chinese Dragon using box modelling materials e.g. egg carton, lollipop sticks, cereal boxes, cardboard tubes and tissue paper.
- Read/ listen to the story and think about the rhyming words e.g. fish and dish, hand and sand, sea and tree etc.
- Explore colour mixing when painting with your very own 'magic' paintbrush. What will you paint? What colours will you use? What happens when you mix two colours together?