* Share the story with the children and ask them to make up some more countryside characters and give them names. Would these characters be friends of Dol and the bat? Would they also hibernate during the winter?
* Teach children the hibernation action rhyme on the back of the Nursery Topics poster and play the game.
* Use the theme of helping friends asa focus for circle time. Can the children think of ways in which they can help their friends?
* Challenge children to build a hibernation den. How would theymake it warm and safe from predators and the weather? What would it be like to spend the winter in the den? What would they want to take into the den with them?
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