You might not have known that The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle has been translated into over 60 languges! However, many of these translations are out of print or dangerously close to being out of print. That’s why translations are extortionately priced on sites like Amazon.

The book we’ve chosen today is called ‘动物的脚印’ (‘Animal Footprints’). The aim was to get her to start recognising body parts, animals and improve her comparison skills.

Eliora really enjoys the book and it helps her enjoy the changing seasons in the UK. The activity should teach her not just colour but also encourage her to engage with the world around her!

We keep coming back to Le Le Chinese but a lot of my daughter’s favourite books are from the set so it’s inevitable, I guess. This time we’re looking at an art activity inspired by 变颜色 (‘Changing Colour’). It’s really quite simple actually!

While my sister is spending hours watching YouTubers making desserts, I’m looking for recipes for something I can’t even eat… But the end result really was worth it! My daughter loves playing with it and it’s a great tool to give her hands-on learning about the things in her books!

My daughter’s got a special place in her brain for the books about food - we are a foodie family after all! One of those books is about drawing a cherry tree. We love the little catch at the end where the birds try to eat the drawing so we thought we’d do a little activity.

Apple picking is one of my personal favourite activities. She gets tired and we get apples! But whenever she does something, we always encourage her to talk about it in the language that we speak.

Recently, she’s taken quite a liking to a book about different coloured beans. Thankfully grandma always has a stock of each, so I thought it would be a good idea to make an activity out of it!