The Firework Maker's Daughter by Phillip Pullman is magical, inspiring story and is often used as a text to study in KS2.
This 1–3-hour session can be used as an introduction to the story before reading or can be used alongside working through the book with children.
These activities feature ideas for exploring:
Using some delicious language from the first chapter, explain that we are going to explore a story set ‘east of the jungle and south of the mountains’, in the shadow of volcano Mount Merapi. A ‘beautiful but dangerous place’.
Discuss what kinds of things might be there, for example: stunning flowers that sting, or palm trees that can freeze you, waterfalls that wail etc.
Introduce the idea of Body as Prop and in small groups make these features of the world using only their bodies. Development by adding movements and sounds.
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