Trail Activities and Resources

You are welcome to download, print and reproduce these sheets as you wish.

BSL Alphabet BSL sheet(linked to the sculpture Mad Hatters in Luton Land)

Code Breaker	Colour Me – hare Colour Me – tortoise 1 Colour Me – tortoise 2

Hare We Go! Design your own Football Kit	La Dolce Vita pattern

Let’s Go Fly A Kite Colouring Sheet	Lovely Lou Colouring Sheet

Let’s Illustrate a Parrot	Let’s Paint a Tortoise

Draw Me – hare 1 Draw Me – hare 2	Griddle

Maze 1 Maze 2	Number Line

Pathfinder	Shadow Match

Spot the Difference	Word Fit

Word Wheels 1 Word Wheels 2	Wordsearch 1 Wordsearch 2 Wordsearch – Keech

• Fact Files – Hares
  Including two sets of facts, different types of hares, differences between hares and rabbits, and why are hares rare?
• Online: Mountain hares

• Fact Files – Tortoises
  Including two sets of facts, a year in the life of a real tortoise, cultural and historical notes on totoises and Charles Darwin’s letter calling for tortoise protection
• Galapagos Tortoise facts
• Online: Tortoises
• Top 10 Facts About Bees

• Aesop’s Fable – The Hare and The Tortoise
• The Tortoise and the Hare (3 reading levels)
• Book list
• Short tortoise poems
• Baby Tortoise by D H Lawrence

• Video: The Tortoise and the Hare – told in British Sign Language
• Video: The Hare and the Tortoise (BBC Teach)
• Video: The Hare and the Tortoise – Ready, Steady, Go! (BBC Teach)
• Video: Things you need to know about Brown Hares
• Video: Rabbits vs Hares: The Differences
• Video: Hare raises leveret
• Video: Tracking Giant Galapagos Tortoises (BBC Earth)
• Video: 11 Amazing Tortoise Facts
• Video: 5 Fun Facts about Tortoises
• Video: A desert tortoise hatchling takes his first steps
• Online tortoise puzzle

Could you inspire a whole new generation of Young Animators?

We’d love you to get your young people to be the writers, directors and producers of their very own own stop frame animations. Taking inspiration from their favourite book, film or TV characters, using the storyboarding and set building resources and the simple and free to use Animator app, they can do just that.

• Find out more

• About the Charity
• An introduction to Keech Hospice Care
• Read the stories of some of our patients
• Take a virtual tour of Keech Hospice Care

Ideas for activities to run alongside your Short Tail Trail art project.

• Art and Design
• Design and Technology
• English
• Geography
• History
• Mathematics
• Music
• Physical Education
• Religious Education
• Science

At Keech Hospice Care we know ‘we can’t put days into life, but we can put life into days’. A big part of living longer and staying well is about being happy. Studies have shown – whatever our age – we’re happier if we make these five things part of our life:

• Be active and healthy
• Connect
• Keep learning
• Give to others
• Take notice

Our Five Ways to Wellbeing gives you simple, fun activities for you to do as a class or group, building them into the school day or programme, even if you can only spare a minute!

What’s more, the activity ideas are designed to fit in with PSHE and Citizenship programmes, covering core themes of Health and Wellbeing, Relationships and Living in the Wider World.

Some of the activities are also linked to ‘giving’ to Keech Hospice Care – a direct connection to your involvement with The Short Tail Trail.

We hope you enjoy these activities and the encourage your group to be active, build positive relationships, stretch their minds, feed their curiosity, and help them care about the world and their place in it.

• Five Ways to Wellbeing