Oh Dear!

• Read the story to your child
• Encourage your child to lift the flaps
• Together, have a guessing game – which animal is behind each flap?
• Encourage your child to join in with the repeats – ‘No eggs here! Oh dear!’
• Together, make the noises the animals make
• Talk together about your favourite animal in the story
• Count together how many animal homes Buster visits
• How does the story end?

Beyond Oh Dear!

• Talk together about your favourite animals
• Together, find out some facts about hens.
• Can you pretend to be some of the other animals in the story?

Useful Websites for Oh Dear! story

Youtube – Oh Dear! story

BBC – Old Macdonald had a Farm song

BBC Bitesize – Animals that lay eggs