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Use these colour and cut out templates to make stick puppets for a puppet performance of A Grub’s Tale.

A supplemental cross quiz that will help solidify knowledge after learning all about vanilla.

Our ‘Storytelling prompts' for A Grub's Tale are the perfect accompaniment to your storytelling lessons. These prompts come with keywords.

Our image-only ‘Storytelling prompts’ for A Grub’s Tale are the perfect accompaniment to your storytelling lessons.

Work out how much leaf our little grub has left at the end of the day with some simple addition and subtraction of fractions.

No slideshow could do justice to the treasure of creatures that live on the island of Madagascar but these beautiful images are a great starting point for further investigation.

Our downloadable Madagascan animal fact cards are ready for children to add their own researched facts.

Our downloadable Madagascan animal fact cards are ready for children to add their own illustrations.

Our downloadable Madagascan animal fact card templates make great class displays and are perfect for children to use when presenting their findings to the class.

Our downloadable Madagascan animal fact cards will help start children off on their voyage of discovery of Malagasy animals. Use on the whiteboard or on tablet computers.

Also available with or without text and images and also as a blank printable template.

The official language in Madagascar is French. Here are some useful phrases to use if you are devising a French puppet show.

Talk about pollination then test what has been learned by using this 'Insects that pollinate' resource.

The intriguing story of growing vanilla in Madagascar is a very tasty subject for study and is the perfect springboard for looking at pollination.

The Vanilla Princess is a Mayan tale about the story of the creation of the vanilla plant.

Reward your KS2 storytellers with this A grub's life themed certificate.

Reward your KS1 storytellers with this A grub's life themed certificate.

At the age of 12, a slave boy, on the island of Madagascar discovered a technique for pollinating vanilla orchids quickly and profitably – read his story.

Can children work out how the conversation between Grub and the Blue-legged Mantella Frog might have gone better?

How much of A Grub’s Tale has been remembered? Our quiz is split in two with closed and open questions and will really get the children thinking.

Cut out and make some reveal-and-learn French picture cards for all of the animals in A Grub's Tale.

We look at some of the life cycles of the animals in our story A Grub’s Tale.

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