This month’s story is from BookTrust and is My Hair written by Hannah Lee and illustrated by Allen Fatimaharan.
You can borrow more books about your hair from your local library.
Borrow more books from our Black History Month booklist for children.
Then why not try one of these activity ideas
- Count how many different hair styles there are in the book
- How many different hairstyles are there in your family?
- Next time you wash your hair give yourself a monster hairstyle with the shampoo!
- Try a different hairstyle today, how does that make you feel when you look different to how you normally look?
- Look in the mirror and draw your own self portrait
- Hair cutting activity (see instructions below)
- Talk about why it is important to love all the things about you, be curious and have a good heart
Hair cutting activity
Materials
- Cardboard
- Wool or string
- Hole puncher
- Felt tip
- Child safe scissors
Instructions
- Cut out half an oval face shape out of cardboard and add eyes and a mouth using the felt tip.
- Using the hole puncher punch holes across the straight edge of the half oval.
- Cut long pieces of your wool or string and folding them in half thread them through each of the holes and tie them on.
- Let your child cut the hair using the child safe scissors
For more great ideas of activities to try with your young children check out the Talk Listen Cuddle website.