Empathy & Perspective
Age 3 - 8 Years
Where's that Cat?
by Sam Wilson (Writer), Chenél Ferreira (Designer), Louis Greenberg (Editor) & Nicole De Klerk (Illustrator)
Neo and her dad are inventors. They can solve ALMOST any problem… But they can’t find Neo’s cat! Neo looks everywhere but the cat has vanished. Maybe it has something to do with her dad’s latest invention? Join Neo as she sets out to bring her treasured companion back home.
Empathy
Perspective
Age 3 – 8 Years
Step 1
For this activity you will need a piece of paper, a pencil and crayons.
Step 2
Steps 2-5 are age appropriate for grades 2 to 3. Divide your A4 piece of paper into 3 roughly equal parts by folding it.
Step 3
Draw the first drawing in the first square.
Step 4
In the next space do your drawing of the next level of zoom.
Step 5
Complete drawing and color it.
Step 6
Steps 6-9 are age appropriate for grades 4 to 5 and above. Divide a new A4 piece of paper into 6 equal parts by folding it.
Step 7
Start in the top left corner with your most close-up level of zoom.
Step 8
Move to the space to the right and draw your next level of zoom.
Step 9
Keep zooming out until all 6 spaces are filled then color your drawing.
Step 1
For this activity you will need an empty toilet roll, a pair of scissors, a piece of scrap paper, glue, a pencil and paint/paintbrush or crayons or colored pencils.
Step 2
Paint the toilet roll and let it dry.
Step 3
On a piece of paper draw eyes, ears, a nose and mouth, a tail, whiskers and a circle for the cat’s head (make sure that your circle is big enough to fit the eyes, ears, etc. If they don’t fit, draw them again larger or smaller).
Step 4
Cut out your eyes, ears, etc.
Step 5
Color them in/paint them the same color as you painted your toilet paper roll.
Step 6
Paste the eyes, ears, and whiskers to the head.
Step 7
Glue the head and tail to your toilet tissue roll.
Step 1
For this activity you will need a pencil, eraser, crayons, a copy of the What’s Missing? Worksheet
Step 2
On the book look for the same picture and spot the missing part.
Step 3
Draw in the missing parts of the picture.
Step 4
Color the picture with your crayons…
Step 1
For this activity you will need a piece of paper, a pencil, an eraser and crayons or colored pencils.
Step 2
On a piece of paper draw your favorite animal or pet.
Step 3
Color your drawing and present it.
Step 1
For this activity you will need crayons, a downloaded copy of the sequencing sheet and a pair of scissors.
Step 2
Color the scene pictures as on the book.
Step 3
Cut out the cards, place them randomly.
Step 4
Try to put them back in the right order and to check if they have got everything right.
In this experiment kids will learn that rocks displace water by taking up space and forcing the water out. Because the rocks are denser than the water they sink and push the water up.
Step 1
For this activity you will need an empty plastic cool drink bottle, a knife, a cup of water and a few small rocks from the environment outside.
Step 2
Start by cutting the neck off of your bottle so that your kids will be able to put rocks inside of it.
Step 3
Fill your jar about halfway with water.
Step 4
Then let kids add rocks and see what happens to the water level.
Step 5
Once kids have put in enough rocks to get the water almost to the top of the container (or if you have easy access to water at your house you can let kids fill the container until it is slightly overflowing), pause for a moment and talk about how as the rocks take up the space where the water was, the water is forced out (displaced). Ask the kids if they think that bigger or smaller rocks will displace the water faster?
Step 1
For this activity you will need soil/charcoal/ash, water, 2 pieces of paper, pencil, eraser.
Step 2
Mix either soil/charcoal/ash with water to make ink.
Step 3
Dip your hand into the ink/paint then press it on a piece of paper. Make sure that the hand is pressed in a way that the 4 fingers face down as standing legs of the cat, the thumb becomes the tail of the cat.
Step 4
Draw the face of a cat with eyes, ears, mouth, nose and whiskers on a piece of paper.
Step 5
On the wrist area, paste the head of the cat with its ears. On the top corner of the wrist part (opposite corner to where the tail is).
Step 6
Complete and present your cat.
Step 1
For this activity you will need a copy of the circle page worksheet, crayons or colored pencils, a pencil and an eraser.
Step 2
From the given circles, draw different things that incorporate the existing circle shape into a drawing of something.
Step 3
Color your drawings and present them.
Step 1
For this activity you will need a copy of the puzzle sheet, crayons, piece of cardboard and glue.
Step 2
Color the puzzle sheet to make it look like on the book.
Step 3
Paste the colored sheet on a piece of cardboard.
Step 4
Cut out the puzzle pieces and place them randomly in front of you. Try to put the puzzle back together.
Step 1
For this activity you will need an empty 2 or 5 litre container, a knife, some water in a separate jug or bowl as well as some things in the outside or inside environment that may float.
Step 2
Carefully cut the 2 or 5 litre container in half using the knife. Help the children to fill the container about halfway up with the things you have found.
Step 3
Slowly add water to the container and let the kids make observations about what’s happening.
If the objects float on the water, they will be pushed up as they are forced out of their place by the water (because the water is denser than your floating object it displaces the object the way that the rocks displaced it).