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Here’s another of my quick lessons and with this one, I am including a free download which is the bits you need to complete a short lapbook all about Astrid Lindgren.
We were recently sent a copy of the Little People Big Dreams book about Astrid Lindgren and I thought it might be a nice basis for a short project. We really enjoy learning about notable people and I knew the children would enjoy this one. We LOVE the Little People Big Dreams book. We have only 4/5 of these books but they’re fantastic and provide the basis for learning so much about the people. This post is marked as an ad as we were gifted the book and the links included are affiliate links. My full disclosure policy is here.
Materials & Resources
- Pens, glue and a piece of A3 card
- The characters page from the Pippi Party Pack here
- Little People Big Dreams – Astrid Lindgren
- Pippi Longstocking book (I downloaded an e-version)
- These lapbook printables (click here)
The Lesson
We started by reading the book about Astrid together. We talked about how Astrid’s childhood was different to the children’s and looked at where she’d grown up on a map. We talked about what it might have felt like to have so many children across the world reading the books about a character created by her daughter.
We then looked at the character sheet from the Pippi Party pack and this was stuck onto one side of the lapbook.
We then printed the lapbook pieces and filled this in and placed in the lapbook. For the front cover I got the children to draw a picture of Pippi Longstocking. We hadn’t yet read the stories so we looked at the description of Pippi and they drew here from that.
Whilst they were completing their front cover picture I read the story aloud to them. It was interesting to them to note the different use of language and we chatted a little about that too.
Other things to explore
This was an easy enough lesson with the children and enjoyable too. We plan to have a go at making the ginger biscuits that Pippi is making (on the floor!) in the story we read and we may even attempt to sew a Pippi Longstocking doll. You could extend this by doing a country study of Sweden and compare/contrast the UK and Sweden too.
Once we have finished reading Pippi I am going to ask the children to either create their own character that gets into adventures like Pippi Longstocking, or else write a new chapter for Pippi. It will be interesting to see what they come up with.
