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A resource as basic as a bucket, and inspiration from an imaginative children's book, can provide the children in your setting with limitless activities, starting with these suggested by Helen Bromley The story of Billy's Bucket, written by Kes Gray and illustrated by Garry Parsons (Red Fox, 5.99) makes a brightly coloured, attractive picture book that provides an ideal basis for an early years project.

The story of Billy's Bucket, written by Kes Gray and illustrated by Garry Parsons (Red Fox, 5.99) makes a brightly coloured, attractive picture book that provides an ideal basis for an early years project.

Billy asks his parents for a bucket for his birthday present. Initially, they respond by offering him numerous other gifts, including trainers, a computer game and a bike. Billy's persistence pays off, however, and the family embark on a trip to Buckets 'R' Us, where, after a great deal of careful searching, the much-wanted bucket is chosen.

On arriving home, Billy fills the bucket with water and immediately begins to describe all the different things that he can see in it, much to the amusement of his disbelieving parents. After viewing, among other things, pilchards, submarines, a coral reef and a walrus, Billy retires to bed, having warned his parents not to borrow his bucket.

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