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Finger Wiggle Farm - Make your own farmyard animal (age 1–2)

You’ll need:

• Cotton wool
• Glue
• Toilet roll
• Pen

Stick some cotton wool or scrunched up paper to the outside of a cardboard tube to make your own sheep! Have fun making other animals and create your own farmyard full of friends – you can use them to bring the book to life with your child!

Little Monkey – Make a handprint monkey! (3–4 years)

You’ll need:

• Brown paint
• Paper
• Black pen or pencil

Paint your hand with brown paint. Make a handprint on the paper. The fingers will be the four arms and legs and the thumb can be its neck or tail. Make a thumb print for your monkey’s head, a little fingerprint for the ears. Draw some feet/hands on the arms and legs. Draw your monkey’s face. You can colour a strip of paper brown as a long tail. Why not play stick the tail on the monkey?