Nursery World - By a whisker

Study cats by listening to stories, creating art, and meeting the real thing, with more activities from Andrea Durrant Activity 1

Activity 1

Cat call

Arrange for a pet cat to visit your nursery.

Planned learning intentions

To respond to what they see

To explore shape, form colour, texture, and pattern in 2D To use a range of mark-making tools Adult to child ratio: 1:6 Resources

A real cat, Nursery World poster of Franz Marc's 'Three Cats', mark- making tools, for example, coloured pencils, fibre tipped pens, charcoal, pastels, graphite sticks, Conte sticks and oil pastels, paper in a range of sizes

Step by step

* Ask a cat owner (perhaps a parent) to bring their pet into the classroom. Make sure it is used to being with children. Before the visit, check for cat allergies and talk to the children about how to treat the cat. How will it feel if they shout or rush at it? Why must they treat it gently?

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