Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear?

The children have really enjoyed Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear, we've read it several times and I think it's going to join Going On A Bear Hunt as another firm favourite. They can be heard saying/singing parts of the rhyming story throughout the day, sometimes adding bits of the bear hunt to it. So here are some of the activities we done over the last couple of days.

We made our own Jesse Bear using these teddy bear paper dolls, there are lots of other paper dolls, so to find the bears you will have to scroll down, we used the bare bear and the warm weather clothes.

With the older children, we reread Jesse's meal time and choose from the pictures what he  did/didn't eat  

I have had some packets of cress seeds for a while and had been planning to grow some, so thought why not on a teddy bear shape, fingers crossed it will grow.

Our cress teddy bears two weeks later

Out came our wooden dress up teddies, I love the different facial expressions, it really gets the children talking about what the bears might be thinking, as well as the different clothes they are wearing.