Flip Flap Frozen by Axel Scheffler and published by Nosy Crow is an awesome book with rhymes and flip flap pages. The pages have a top half and bottom half of a rhyme and a top half and bottom half of an animal so you can flip the pages to change the rhymes and change the animals top and bottom halves. It is lots of fun to read and you can make different animals with different rhymes each time you read it. There are other versions of this book including other types of animals and a dinosaur one so these are on our to be read list.
Activities
Make up rhymes/rhyming words
Draw/paint mixed up animals
Ice cubes and animals play
Animals adaption talk
Animals and water play
Large animal mix up
Animal actions
Banana animals
Animal mix up biscuits
Fruit and ice cream animal inspired smoothies
Indoor
As the story is all about rhyming you could make up some rhymes with older children or with younger children you could practise rhyming words. These could be about arctic animals or about anything they are interested in. Pick two different animals or things and then come up with two rhymes. You can then mix the animals/things up along with the rhymes just like in the book. Another fun activity could be to choose one of the mixed up animals and make a picture of it using pens, pencil crayons or paint. Your child/children could then create their own animal if they want to. A final indoor activity could be to make some ice cubes and then let your child/children play with some plastic animal toys in the ice cubes. You could talk about how the animals are adapted to their environment with your child/children and how they would move differently if they have a different bottom half.
Outdoor
The first activity could be to fill a large bowl or a paddling pool up with water and then your child/children could play with some animals in the water. To make it more exciting you could use food colouring to make the water a different colour and if it is a hot day you could always add a few ice cubes and you could do some of these coloured too. Another activity could be to draw the animals on large paper (your child could help you colour them in) and then you could cut these in half and your child could make different animals using the drawings. They will have lots of space to spread their pictures out and you could use large stones or rocks to stop them blowing away. The final outdoor activity could be for your child/children to act out some of the animals in the book. They could do them as the complete animal or as mixed up animals.
Food/Cooking
Bananas on a stick made to look like animals are always fun to make and eat. Your child/children could use melted chocolate, sweets and fruits to make their bananas look like animals. If you freeze the bananas cut in half on the sticks then they will be easier to decorate as they won't fall apart. Your child/children could do penguins, polar bears or orcas. Another fun activity could be to make some different animal biscuits then cut them across length ways and add different tops and bottoms and then your child/children could decorate them. A final food inspired activity could be to make some smoothies using frozen fruits and ice cream. Your child could choose the colours based on an animal, for example they could use vanilla ice cream and blueberries or blackberries for a penguin.
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