Delectable activities and games featuring Miss Petitfour and her cats
Create your own purrfect cat profile Your Shyness believes she is descended from royalty. She wears a lace collar and has silky fur, bright as a gold coin. Minky, the littlest cat, looks as if she stepped in snow when she was a kitten and the snow never melted. She is all black except for her white paws and the spots on her head and tail, where the snow didn t melt either. Clasby wears a bobble hat, knitted for him for his fifth birthday. He loves to draw and paint. Make a new cat for Miss Petitfour! Name: Description:
Miss Petitfour s cat pairs Ask an adult to help you cut out these cards. Shuffle the cards and deal them out face-down on the table. Turn over two cards. If they match, remove the cards from the table and keep them in your win pile. If they don t match, turn them back over and try to remember where they are for next time. Repeat until all the cards are matched up! This game is fun to play on your own or taking it in turn with friends. # Minky Minky Purrsia Purrsia Misty Misty Taffy Taffy More cards on the next page!
Miss Petitfour s cat pairs # Pirate Pirate Hemdela Hemdela Mustard Mustard Earring Earring Grigorovitch Grigorovitch Captain Captain Captain Captain More cards on the next page!
Miss Petitfour s cat pairs # Captain Clothespin Captain Clothespin Your Shyness Your Shyness Sizzles Sizzles Moutarde Moutarde Clasby Clasby Captain Catkin Captain Catkin
Miss Petitfour s cake memory game Everyone likes thinking about cakes Miss Petitfour most of all! Gather a group of three or more people and play this fun cake-filled memory game. Sit in a circle and choose a person to start the game. The first person completes the following sentence: I went to Miss Petitfour s picnic and I ate For example, I went to Miss Petitfour s picnic and I ate a currant toast squishy with butter. The second person then repeats that sentence and adds on another cake. For example, I went to Miss Petitfour s picnic and I ate a currant toast squishy with butter and a Bramley apple pie. Everyone takes it in turns to add another cake, and another, until someone can t remember them all. That person then drops out of the game. Repeat until you have a winner!
Miss Petitfour s favourite words The Adventures of Miss Petitfour is full of fascinating words keep your own list of favourite words and their meanings as you come across them! meteorological circumstances debonair eccentricity festooning the weather charming a quirky thing we like to do just because cleverly decorating things
Books too silly ever to be written Miss Petitfour and Mrs. Collarwaller spent many enjoyable hours drinking tea together in the bookshop and playing a game they were both extremely fond of: thinking up titles for books too silly ever to be written, such as Beware, I m Going to Rob you Any Minute, or Warning: The Last Page Is Missing, or This Book is a Waste of Time, or How to Care for the Fish in Your Shoe, or Don t Bother, all the Pages are Stuck Together, or I Think I m Asleep. Think of your own titles for books too silly ever to be written the sillier the better!
Write your own Miss Petitfour adventure Sometimes, all you must do is reach out your hand for something wonderful to happen. Write a short story using this sentence as a starting point! Try using some of the story words from the book: THEN ONE DAY, MEANWHILE, JUST THEN, UNFORTUNATELY