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Hide and SeekAge range3-5 Years.

EYFS linksLiteracy, Understanding the World, Expressive Arts and Design, Physical Development and Personal, Social and Emotional Development.

You will needDressing up box of clothes, ‘pirate’ music, crayons and paper.

You can �nd all the supporting activities for this lesson plan in the Pip Ahoy! Children love creative play and dressing up and this will give themthe chance to try on di�erent clothes and act out their own stories.This activity will help with language development and vocabulary. It will develop children’s understanding of the world around them and will helpwith social skills.

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Time for activity:30 minutes

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Cut outCut out

Trelawney Mask

You will need:

Scissors, card, elastic,

glue if sticking

onto card.

Print out onto card, or stick onto thin card, then cut out around the dotted lines. Tie one end of elastic or string through the left hand hole with a knot, then thread the other

end through the right hand hole. Place around your child’s head and adjust the elastic to make it to the right length for you child. Tie a knot at the right hand hole, securing

the mask to your child’s head. Cut o� any excess thread.

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● Using the activity ‘Find the Treasure’, ask children to follow the routes, either with a pencil or with their �nger, to see what they �nd. Ask them who found the pizza? Who found the �sh? etc.’● Talk about what the Mice Pirates might do with the cheesecake.● Build on the activity and make up some of your own puzzles to use with the children.

Further ideas● Hide some treasure around the room and then get the children to see if they can �nd it. You could help them by giving them some clues.● Talk about helping each other. When you are looking for something, you might have to work together.● Make up a pirate song or a pirate dance.● Put 5 items on a tray. Ask the children to look at them, then cover the tray and take away one item. Uncover the tray; which piece of ‘treasure’ has gone?● Ask the children to draw some pirates and a pirate ship and make up a story about them.● Using the ‘Trelawney Mask template’ , produce a mouse mask for each child so that they can become mice pirates.● Make up a box of clothes and other items and get the children to dress up like pirates, and act out their own play. They could also use the mouse mask they’ve cut out.

Activity

Find the TreasurePip, his friends and the Mice Pirates go in search of treasure.

Look at the map below. Follow each path to find out whohas found the treasure: Madame Éclair’s cakes!

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The Mice PiratesThe Mice PiratesHopperHopper

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Who found the pizza?

Who found Alba’s backpack with Paws the teddy in?

Who found the fish?

Now draw some pirates of your own in the space below:

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Cut out Cut out

Trelawney Mask

You will need:Scissors, card, elastic,

glue if stickingonto card.

Print out onto card, or stick onto thin card, then cut out around the dotted lines. Tie one end of elastic or string through the left hand hole with a knot, then thread the other end through the right hand hole. Place around your child’s head and adjust the elastic to make it to the right length for you child. Tie a knot at the right hand hole, securing the mask to your child’s head. Cut o� any excess thread.

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© CHF PiP! Plc 2013-2014. All rights reserved. Pip Ahoy! is the trademark of CHF PiP! Plc.

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