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

The Paper Dolls is the story of a young girl who makes some paper dolls which she plays with and takes them on adventures but one day when a boy cuts them up they end up in her memory instead.The next set of questions concerns memory. After the boy snips the paper dolls and the dolls regather themselves in the little girl’s memory, they apparently encounter other items in the little girl’s memory. They find “white mice and fireworks, and a starfish soap, and a kind granny, and the butterfly hairslide, and more and more lovely things each day and each year.” Students are asked about the nature of memory. What is memory and where is it? Why does it exist? 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)? Are there things, people, or places in your memory that don’t exist in the real world anymore? Can you give some examples? A boy with a pair of scissors, snipped the dolls into little pieces. Did the paper dolls mean a lot to the little boy? My real breakthrough was THE GRUFFALO, again illustrated by Axel. We work separately - he’s in London and I’m in Glasgow - but he sends me letters with lovely funny pictures on the envelopes.

Find out about the record breaking longest chain of paper dolls made in 2013 here Maybe you could make a really long chain of paper dolls too! Maybe some friends could help. Read more books by author Julia Donaldson here Titles with activities on LoveMyBooks are: The Gruffalo Room on the Broom The Snail and the Whale Tyrannosaurus Drip What the Ladybird HeardYour child will use their imagination to draw, write, and colour this paper doll template to replicate their favourite character from a book or their favourite scientist or historian. This book was better on a re-read! I already knew the twist, so I was mostly focusing on the mood/message, more so than the story.