Activity sheets

Free activity sheets

The following activity sheets are downloadable. Please print out as many as you like.

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Colour in a scene from My Baby Sister Is a Diplodocus by Aurore Petit.

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Colour in a scene from Can I Sit in the Middle? by Susanne Strasser.

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Can I Sit in the Middle colouring in sheet

Colour in a scene from Have You Seen Dinosaur? by David Barrow.

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Take the final exam from Giselle Clarkson’s The Observologist, and become a certified observologist.

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image of Observologist final exam activity sheet

From Fodo Dodo Goes Fishing by Édouard Manceau.

Colour in this fun moment between Fodo Dodo and Noodle as they fish some underguppies from the bathtub.

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Fodo Dodo Goes Fishing activity sheet

From When Dad’s Hair Took Off by Jörg Mühle.

Write pun-filled postcards like Dad’s hair sends back to Dad from around the world.

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From When Dad’s Hair Took Off by Jörg Mühle.

Help Dad find his hair by colouring in this scene at the zoo.

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When Dad's Hair Took Off activity sheet

From What’s That, Jack? by Cédric Ramadier and Vincent Bourgeau.

Recreate the adventure from What’s That, Jack with playdough/clay.

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What's That, Jack activity sheet

A colouring in activity sheet from Kind Crocodile by Leo Timmers.

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Kind Crocodile

A colouring in activity sheet from The Grizzled Grist Does Not Exist by Juliette MacIver and Sarah Davis.

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grizzled grist colouring sheet

From Wooolf! by Stephanie Blake.

Make your own wolf mask to play tricks on people like Simon does in Wooolf!

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Wooolf activity sheet

From A Perfect Wonderful Day with Friends by Philip Waechter.

Create your own perfect wonderful day. Draw your friends in the picture, maybe fishing like Bear or swimming like Fox. Then colour the picture in.

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Perfect Wonderful Day with Friendsactivity sheet

From Elephant Island by Leo Timmers.

Make your own boat like one of the boats that comes to rescue Arnold in Elephant Island!

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Elephant Island activity sheet

From Lionel Poops, Lionel Eats All By Himself and Lionel Is Just Like Dad by Éric Veillé

Create your own Lionel mask!

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LIONEL activity sheet

From The Secrets of Cricket Karlsson by Kristina Sigunsdotter and Ester Eriksson.

Write down your secrets just like Cricket in this self-portrait. Draw yourself as an animal and add some details, including your biggest secret. Share with your school friends or keep under lock and key!

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Secrets of Cricket Karlsson activity sheet

From Leilong’s Too Long! by Julia Liu and Bei Lynn

Colour in Leilong as he holds up traffic on a bridge in the city.

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Leilong's Too Long activity sheet

From The Uprising by Eirlys Hunter

Try your hand at being a junior cartographer, just like the Santander mapmakers and sketch a map of a recent adventure.

The Uprising Activity Sheet

From Where Is the Dragon? by Leo Timmers

Colour in Knights One, Two, and Three as they head off in search of the supposed dragon troubling the King.

Where Is the Dragon activity sheet

From The Inkberg Enigma by Jonathan King

Create your own comic activity
Cut, copy or trace these comics making bits and pieces and use the panels page to create your own comic.

The Inkberg Enigma Create Your Own Comic Activity

From My Mama by Annemarie van Haeringen

Colouring activity
Baby elephant is enjoying a piggy back ride on Mama’s back. We love her patterned dress and the stars on baby elephant’s trousers. Colour in the drawing and patterns on their clothes.

My Mama colouring sheet piggy back ride

From My Mama by Annemarie van Haeringen

Colouring activity
Mischievous baby elephant is floating up and away because of holding all those balloons! Colour in the drawing and add some patterns to the balloons.

My Mama colouring sheet balloons

From Egg and Spoon: An Illustrated Cookbook by Alexandra Tylee

Breakfast popsicles recipe
Make these delicious popsicles for breakfast in the sun or on the go!

Egg and Spoon breakfast popsicles recipe

From The Wolf and the Fly by Antje Damm

Drawing and colouring activity
Wolf is cooking his favourite soup. Draw the ingredients you would add to the soup in the pot and colour in the drawing.

Wolf soup activity sheet

From The Wolf and the Fly by Antje Damm

Drawing activity
Can you draw all the items on the shelves?

From Duck, Death and the Tulip by Wolf Erlbruch

Writing activity
Work in a group to create a story. Write your favourite quote from a book you are reading on the first line of this paper. Fold it backwards so your quote is hidden, and pass it around so others can do the same. At the end, unfold the paper and discover a new story!

From The Lazy Friend by Ronan Badel

Writing activity
Write a postcard from the latest place you visited … in a book.

From Detective Gordon by Ulf Nilsson and Gitte Spee

Colouring activity
Print this out on a BIG piece of paper for everyone to colour in together.

Detective Gordon book colouring sheets

From That’s Not a Hippopotamus by Juliette MacIver and Sarah Davis

Colouring activity
Can you spot the Hippopotamus?

That's not a hippopotamus activity sheet

From Gus’s Garage by Leo Timmers

Draw and colour
Draw-in the missing animals and colour them in

Gecko Press actibity sheet from Gus's Garage

From Yours Sincerely, Giraffe, by Megumi Iwasa and Jun Takabatake

Colouring activity
Brighten up Giraffe’s penguin costume

Colouring activity
Pelican brings Giraffe a letter

Drawing activity
It’s hard to imagine someone you’ve never seen…

Giraffe image from Yours Sincerely Giraffe published by Gecko Press

From Poo Bum by Stephanie Blake

Rabbit mask

Rabbit mask

From The Visitor by Antje Damm

Activity sheet

Colour in Cam’s town from Song of the River by Joy Cowley and Kimberly Andrews

Write the name of a book character on a post-it and stick
it on your friend’s forehead. Your friend will have to ask you questions to
help them guess the identity of the character on his or her forehead.

Illustration by Dorothée de Monfreid from A Day With Dogs

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