Bel Deering takes us through some useful minibeast basics – very useful for when you are out and about on your bug hunt.

Use the map on your whiteboard to help children visualise the key events in A Thumping Great Rabbit.

Choose a tree, head out with pencils, crayons and a measuring tape and fill in the boxes to create a record of it.

Amadeus’s search for his father has taken him from chip shops to Sherwood Forest and now to infinity and beyond. Is he really going to find his dad in space?

Give your local trees a clean bill of health with these official-looking, class-issued 'Clean bill of health' certificates.

Cut out the caterpillar cards and place a piece of double-sided sticky tape across each caterpillar. Ask the children to sticky tiny samples of woodland materials onto the caterpillar.

Poems for learning by heart, poems for performance but, best of all, poems to inspire. 

Nikky Smedley tells the tale of A Thumping Great Rabbit in front of a Year 2 class from Brookhurst Primary School in Warwickshire.

Our image-only ‘Storytelling prompts’ for A thumping great rabbit are the perfect accompaniment to your storytelling lessons.