Offline Activities

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Ace The Horse
Bizzy Buzzy Bee
Deedely Dee
Donny Dolphin
Fuzzy Wuzzy
Gangly And Gorgeous
Gnomes From Gnomeland
Hairy Herby
Kangy The Surfer
Pompey The Pelican
Rexzy Rabbit
Roley Poley

Ace The Horse Activities

1.

Research different types of horses. Create a graph with your children of the different types of horses.

2.

Explore the opportunity of visiting a horse riding venue/sanctuary in your area.

3.

Discuss what horses may eat? If you have access to a horse centre, collect leftover fruit and vegetables to donate to the centre.

4.

Ask a family member / family friend to share their own experiences of riding horses.

5.

Let your children create a giant, colourful collage of a horse to display at home!

6.

Introduce your children to farm animal figurines and books to promote imaginative play based around the story.

7.

Using recycled materials make a small statue of a horse with your children.

8.

Have a discussion about how different animals can help soothe and calm people. Examples include: rescue dogs, dogs for the blind, companion animals, etc.

Bizzy Buzzy Bee Activities

1.

As a family, research the important role bees play in nature. You could even create a life cycle diagram together to display what you've learned!

2.

Sit quietly outside in your garden or a park with your family. Think about the "buzzing" sound that bees make. What other insect or animal sounds can you hear?

3.

Bees love flowers! Create a family flower garden at home and watch your plants grow together. Observe the changes each week and track their progress as they bloom.

4.

Consider purchasing a beehive. Observe the bees and process that is involved in making honey with your children. Use photos or drawings to document what you see.

5.

Create a bee art work with your children. Suggestions include making a giant bee using paper mache or a bee collage from recycled materials and fabrics scraps.

6.

Think about the story and the objects that began with the letter "B." Can you and your children come up with a list of other items that start with "B"?

7.

Get your children to sing the Bizzy Buzzy Bee Song and create a fun dance to go with it! Bees communicate by shaking their tails and moving in a zigzag pattern—your child’s dance can mimic this with zigzag moves, flapping arms to "fly," to create their very own Waggle Dance!

8.

Create your own travel story-book with the adventures your children imagine the bee will go encounter next, and where it could travel too.

Deedely Dee Activities

1.

Make a plan to do a family trip to a local lake or pond. What insects and animals can you see living there?

2.

Play the Deedely Dee song and make up some actions to go with the words with your children. Put on a performance of the song for your friends or family.

3.

Let your kids write a shopping list of foods that Deedely Dee needs to find to feed her family.

eg. worms. algae.

4.

Imagine you could see Deedely Dee foraging for food. What animals and insects do you think she would find? Have your kids draw a picture of a pond with Deedely Dee and the food she has found.

5.

Ask your kids, "Do you know how to walk like a duck?" Then encourage them to play a fun game with friends to see who can waddle the furthest!

6.

Create a pond using a bucket and some water. Have your children place different objects into the imaginary pond to see what sinks or floats on the water.

7.

Using playdough or clay, let your kids make your own duck or duckling. Make sure to give it a name!

8.

Look around your home for items that begin with the letter 'D.' Have your kids create a list of all the items you all discover.

Donny Dolphin Activities

1.

Make a list with your children, what are all the animals that could belong in the ocean with Donny?

2.

Participate in World Ocean Day. What could you and your family do to help from home?

3.

Talk about things you might find in the ocean that could harm dolphins and other marine animals. Encourage your kids to suggest ways they can help protect these animals.

4.

Participate in a 'Clean Up' day at a local waterway/beach with your family.

5.

Ask your children to imagine and create new stories and ocean adventures for Donny and his friends. What do they get up to next?

6.

Look up a graph of the different sizes of the animals in the ocean. How do they compare in size to humans?

7.

Look up kids videos online about our planet's marine life. What animals can they recognise?

8.

Listen to ocean music with your children and meditate to. After the meditation ask your children what animals sounds they could hear?

Fuzzy Wuzzy Activities

1.

Prepare an outdoor picnic lunch like the one Fuzzy Wuzzy had with the Imagineland kids. You could have Teddy Bear's Picnic and bring your own bear.

2.

Play a game of catch with your family outside. Practice throwing and catching different size balls.

3.

As a family, create your own miniature forest scene using recycled materials and some plants. A backdrop could be in the colours of your forest. What other items could you include?

4.

Fuzzy Wuzzy made new friends with the Imagineland kids. Have your children draw or paint a portrait of this happy group of friends.

5.

Play a game of hide and seek inside or outside with your family.

6.

Plan a day trip to a nature reserve, forest or wooded area close to where you live.

7.

Have your children learn the Fuzzy Wuzzy song and create some actions to go with the words. After they have practiced, let them perform a version of the song to your family.

8.

Create masks of how Fuzzy Wuzzy was feeling at different points in the story. Eg. sad, lonely and happy. Use the masks to role play Fuzzy Wuzzy's story with your children.

Gangly And Gorgeous Activities

1.

Have your children create a poster of different types of animals that you may find in Africa.

2.

Listen to some African music. Let your children create a dance by moving their bodies to the rhythm and beat of the music.

3.

Take your children outside and pretend they are tall like Gangly and Gorgeous. Play a game of 'I Spy.' What do you think you can see when you are as tall as a giraffe?

4.

Have your children imagine their home is the savannah. Introduce some plastic animal figurines. Have your children create different scenarios of what could happen in the savannah.

5.

Gangly and Gorgeous are great friends and take care of one another. Have your children discuss and make a list of the ways they can be a good friend.

6.

Animals who live in the jungle need to stay safe and take care of each other. Have the children complete the 'hand' task. On each finger name a person who they could call for help if they were feeling unsafe or in any danger.

7.

Plant a fruit tree in your garden. Watch as the fruit grows. Once it is ready to eat, you can pick the fruit like Gangly and Gorgeous.

8.

Create a kindness board at home with your family, listing different acts of kindness. Each day, have your kids pick a card from the board and complete the kind act together!

Gnomes From Gnomeland Activities

1.

Besides the Gnomes in Gnomeland, have your children ever seen a garden gnome? Was it in your garden or around the neighborhood? Take a walk together and see how many garden gnomes you can spot along the way!

2.

The Gnomes from Gnomeland like to keep fit and healthy. Create a fit and healthy program to be followed indoors or outdoors.

3.

Nicky Gnome likes performing magic tricks. What magic trick would your children like to learn and practise to do.

4.

Listen to the beat of the music and the words 'left, right.' Have your children clap or march to the beat. What other patterns/beats can they create?

5.

The Gnomes from Gnomeland like playing games. Play 'hide and seek' with your family at home.

6.

Have your children create their own gnome using collage materials. What colours will their gnome be? How will they look?

7.

Add some gnomes to your garden at home. Perhaps fairies could live there too.

8.

Create Gnome Finger Puppets. let your children use these as props in role play and creative play.

Hairy Herby Activities

1.

Have your children use their imagination to draw the inside of Hairy Herby's home.

2.

Create your own bug-catcher. Let your children go outside and use it to find insects in their habitats.

3.

Together as a family, draw some of the insects that you discovered in their habitat or home. Eg. a spider in a web.

4.

Make a home for an insect using the natural resources you and your children have collected outside. Eg. leaves, bark, etc.

5.

Work as a team with your children to make a bug hotel. Use recycled materials that you have collected.

6.

As a family, become Habitat Helpers! Plan a trip to a local park and work together to pick up and properly dispose of any litter that’s harmful to the environment.

7.

With your children, research insects to understand their job in the environment. Eg. Look at the opportunity to purchase a beehive/keeper pack.

8.

Start a worm farm using food scraps. You can use the worm liquid to fertilise your vegetable patch or garden.

Kangy The Surfer Activities

1.

As a family, research what type of animal Kangy is and where he comes from. Make a wall chart of other animals native to Kangy's country of origin.

2.

Kangy speaks about being safe at the beach. Discuss with your children about other places where safety is important. Examples include: crossing the road, riding your bike, cyber safety and issues around stranger danger.

3.

Have your children hop and jump like a kangaroo! Practice outdoors and see who can hop and jump the fastest.

4.

Visit your local beach and point out the flags to your children. Teach them how these markers help them stay safe while swimming.

5.

Create a plan of ways you can practise being sun safe like Kangy The Surfer Eg. Drinking water, using sunscreen, wearing a hat.

6.

Have your children colour in/create a collage of their favourite things to do at the beach.

7.

Have a sand castle building competition with your children!

8.

Have your children create their own 'sun safety' dance using the music of the Kangy the Surfer song!

Pompey The Pelican Activities

1.

Let your children create a dance to go with the Pompey The Pelican song. Can they strut and stretch like a pelican?

2.

Pelicans live near waterways. As a family, research and create a list/collage of all the things that pelicans eat.

3.

Pompey has a lot of things to say. Does he work well with his friends? Talk to your children about how they can work together with others to achieve successful outcomes.

4.

Pompey is proud of himself. What is something that your children are proud of? Discuss this and how it made them feel.

5.

Have your children role play the story of Pompey The Pelican by acting out the events.

6.

Colour in Pompey masks and use these in your children's role play.

7.

Talk with your children about different traits and emotions, and how each one makes us feel. Eg. Being proud, confident, adventurous, shy, etc.

8.

Have your chidlren close their eyes while listening to the story. What other noises can they hear in the background?

Rexzy Rabbit Activities

1.

Rexzy lives underground with his wife Rosie. Research and discuss with your children what other animals live underground.

2.

Rexzy was thinking about choosing to eat something that was not good for him. As a family, discuss the different types of food we eat. There's sometimes food - what are they? Good for you food - discuss these. And not so good food choices - name these? Use the healthy food pyramid to promote discussion.

3.

Take your healthy lunches outside for a picnic on the grass with your family, like Rexzy did with the Imagineland kids.

4.

Have your children make and colour rabbit masks and role play Rexzy and Rosie.

5.

Talk with your children about how they’ve helped a friend make a good choice. Discuss why it's important to support and look out for friends and family.

6.

Rabbits like to hop. Let your children practice hopping and then have a hopping race outside. What else could you do to get your body moving? Eg. Jumping, running and skipping races.

7.

Rexzy likes carrots. If you can, plant some carrots in your outdoor garden or in a pot. Use them in a salad as a healthy food option.

8.

Organise a visit to a local animal shelter or veterinary clinic with your children and invite a vet or animal caretaker to share their insights on caring for rabbits and small pets like guinea pigs.

Roley Poley Activities

1.

With your children, design and make a homemade championship medal or trophy. This can be given to the children once they achieve a goal they have been working towards.

2.

Work as a family to construct an obstacle course, or create a new sport, like Roley did. Have fun practising this new activity until your children feel confident about learning.

3.

Find a hilly area near your home and let your children try rolling down the various hills. Some will be steeper than others, making them roll faster, but be sure to prioritize safety while having fun!

4.

Roley Poley made friends with the Imagineland kids. He also taught them a new skill. Have your children paint or draw Roley and his new friends rolling down the hill together.

5.

Learn a new skill, sport, or hobby as a family so you can all enjoy the excitement of discovering something new together while developing your individual talents. Just like Roley Poley and Moley Poley did with the Imagineland kids!

6.

As a family, use a timing device (eg. stopwatch) to measure how long it takes each person to complete a specific activity. Eg. Rolling down a hill, hopping from one point to another.

7.

Listen to Roley Poley's song and have your children create some actions to go with it. They can perform it infront of their friends and family.

8.

Apart from rolling down hills, what else could Roley Poley be a champion of? Have your children create their own story about this. Eg. Perhaps Roley Poley is a champion at eating fruit salad or digging holes under the ground.