Not Cute Book Activities Games
Overview
Not Cute by Philip Bunting is a fun look at believing in yourself while being aware of how you should treat others. A Children Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Honours Picture Book of the Year 2021 it is a fun story about a cute Quokka trying to be something he is not which ironically happens when he ends up inside a snake and stops being at all.
This book is designed for students from Kindergarten to Year 3 with a lot of clever language used to differentiate the characters, their personalities and their movements. We have made 6 activities for this book which include matching each animal to its shape as a fine motor skills activity, matching each animal to its name as a graphological activity to learn letters, step by step instructions to draw a quokka, using adjectives to describe animals, a look at the message behind the story from Aesop and a find-a-word of the various synonyms for speak used throughout the story.