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Clickety
Clack Something to Pack
As this book is based upon repetition and recall,
the simplest follow up activity is to get the children to
recite the list of objects without the aid of the book. When
I perform the book in schools I supplement the words with
actions. You won't have to be Einstein to work out suitable
ones for yourself!
 Throughout
the book the phrase "Here is a suitcase now what will you
pack?" is repeated. Once the book has been read there are
some simple activities that can follow on from that question.
Ask the children to draw the outline of a large suitcase on
an A3 piece of paper. (Draw a name-tag on the handle so their
work can be easily labelled).
Very young children can just choose their favourite things
and draw them in. Tell them that the objects in the book had
to all fit into one suitcase, but they don't have to restrict
themselves like that. Ask them to choose their favourite things.
Food, drink, toys, games, animals, clothes, people, colours,
flowers, anything! Older children can try and sequence their
objects, making their suitcase into a counting book like Clickety
Clack. Even older children could label their pictures or even
describe them using alliterative language, (1 delicious doughnut,
2 happy hippos, 3 terrifying teachers! etc).
Some schools have made their own "story-sacks" (or story suitcases)
collecting and collating the items that appear in the book
so that the children can perform it while reading it. Also
the two "run away rabbits" actually hide in the pages. Get
the children to search for them in the pictures. (Adults might
be interested to know that the illustrator always hides his
wife's initials, C.A.W., in his pictures!)
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