Using a shoe box children can put in a few special things, objects, photographs and drawings. They could decorate the box to make it look special with wrapping paper and label it ‘my memory box’. Encourage your child to tell another member of the family about their memory box and what is inside. This would be an opportunity for older family members to share memories with your child too. Find out more Paper People of All Abilities - This wonderful resource is a brilliant activity you can use to help teach your children how to make people paper chains! They will have to cut along the lines to make two strips of paper, fold parts of the paper and cut around the person outline. The resource comes with clear step-by-step instructions, so you can be sure that everyone will get their own paper chain. You can use it alongside our paper doll cut out template. A boy with a pair of scissors, snipped the dolls into little pieces. Did the paper dolls mean a lot to the little boy?

In response to the demise of the dolls, both my girls made their own paper dolls, the eldest from a book where they could be cut out and designed, and my 6-year-old made her own jellyfish versions! (She has a particular interest in jellyfish, the reasons for this are known only to herself!)’nbsp; Make paper dolls Why does it seem to hold some things that are imaginary (like the white mice) and some things that were once real (like the kind granny and the butterfly hairslide)? The book is ok to me - did not impress not bore me. I love the illustrations - I think it's lovely and the paper dolls were drawn exactly to the rhyme/repetition lines, found in the book. I would think it makes for a great read aloud book with your child(ren) as the rhymes are quite apt and beautiful. Are there things, people, or places in your memory that don’t exist in the real world anymore? Can you give some examples? After the little boy snipped the paper dolls into little pieces he said, “You’re gone forever.” Is he right?The Paper Dolls is a wonderful story of childhood, memory and the power of imagination from the author of The Gruffalo, and illustrating talent Rebecca Cobb. You could help your child write their paper doll adventure story in a zig zag book and then they can illustrate it. Make a memory box

I really enjoy writing verse, even though it can be fiendishly difficult. I used to memorise poems as a child and it means a lot to me when parents tell me their child can recite one of my books. A little girl and her paper dolls go on amazing adventures in this picture book by Julia Donaldson. The dolls play in the real world and in the little girl’s imagination. After a boy snips the dolls into little pieces, the dolls appear in the little girl’s memory along with other things. The Paper Dolls offers the opportunity to discuss the status of fictional objects, the nature of memory, and artistic creation.

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Have you ever created something that you are very attached to? What was it? Why are you attached to it? What does it mean to you?