The Hundred Decker Bus by Mike Smith and published by Macmillan Children's Books is an exciting story about a bus driver who gets bored driving his usual route. One day he spots a road he hasn't seen before and this takes him on an adventure. More and more people want to join the adventure so more and more decks have to be added to the bus as it travels on it's way. The pictures are bright, colourful and detailed, the words and story are easy and fun to read and the book contains a huge fold out page which adds to the fun of the story. C received this for his birthday from his best friend and it became a firm favourite very quickly.
Activities
Bus trip
Plan a bus trip
Visit to a bus station
Make a bus (outside)
Bus wheels snack
Bus sandwiches and traffic light vegetables
Bus biscuits
Bus picture
Make a bus (inside)
Make a bus with photos of family and relative
Outdoor
As the story is about a bus it makes sense to start with the outdoor activities first and the first activity could be a trip on a bus. This could be somewhere local or somewhere further afield and your child/children could have a look out the window whilst they are on their journey to see what they can see. If you have an older child or older children then they could plan the bus trip. Some bus companies allow you to buy a bus ticket which means you can travel on an unlimited amount of buses all day so your child/children could plan the buses and go where they want to go. This is a good skill to learn as it will be helpful in the future. If you wanted to go further afield then there are buses that can take you for a day trip to the beach for example. If you don't travel on buses very often then your child will enjoy it as it will be novelty. Another fun activity could be to go to a local bus station and have a look at all the different buses and find out where they all go. Your child/children will love looking and spotting the different buses and it is a good time to do a bit of people watching too. You could look at the different numbers on the bus and this will help with number recognition and you could teach older children how to read a bus timetable. A final outdoor activity could be to make a bus outside by using chairs or mats to sit on in the formation of a bus and then you could use a plate as the steering wheel and then your child/children could go on their own adventure. You could talk to them about where they are going and if you are lucky they might let you be a passenger or they could take their cuddly toys.
Food/Cooking
For a healthy snack you could just cut up a cucumber and have these as bus wheels or you could use any circular food as the wheels such as biscuits or rice cakes. If you wanted something else to go along with it then you could include red strawberries or grapes, slices of orange and green apple or grapes as the traffic lights. If you have made the bus outside they could even sit and eat their snack on the bus. For a savoury dish you could do sandwiches in the shape of buses and then do tomatoes, green olives and carrot for the traffic lights. Finally, for a sweeter dish you could make some bus shaped biscuits and your child/children could decorate them to make them look like buses using icing, chocolate drops and sweets.
Indoor
The first activity could be for your child to create a picture of their own bus. They can be as imaginative as they want and you could either do this as a quick activity with pencil crayons and felt tips or you could give them some art and craft supplies for them to get creative with. Another activity could be to play buses. You could use dining room chairs to set the bus up and a plastic plate for a steering wheel and then your child/children could pretend to drive round. They could use cuddly toys as their passengers and think about where each one might want to go. If you have an old book of raffle tickets then your child/children could give these out as bus tickets and you could always introduce money with older children and teach them how to give change. This is good practice for subtracting and adding. A final indoor activity could be to make a bus using card and pencils/felt tips and then use old photos of friends and relatives as the passengers. They could practise using scissors and cut out the faces from the photos and then they can decide where they are all going to go on their bus journey.
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