For generations children have loved their teddy bears and today's children are no exception. Early years practitioners can capitalise on children's love of teddy bears by planning a project around children's cuddly best friends.
To start the project, gather together a large collection of teddies for children to handle, investigate and cuddle. Then share a teddy bear story.
A story about teddies - and there are plenty to choose from - provides a good springboard for a variety of activities that promote learning across the Foundation Stage curriculum.
One story that lends itself well to a project on teddy bears is Too Many Teddies by Gus Clarke, to be republished next month by Andersen Press (Pounds 4.99). This is a story about a little boy, Frank, who decides that he has too many teddies. He thinks people give them to him because they secretly desire a teddy for themselves. Frank resolves to find new homes for all his teddies by fostering them with the very people who bought them in the first place.
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