Family Activities

• We can note, with our child, the sign the day is ending, like in the book (the sky color change, the moonlight and the stars…). We can talk about the end of the day signs at home and outside our home (such as parent/s coming home, making dinner, hearing the pray from the mosque, streetlights shining).
• The little animals express their sleepiness in different ways; the little panda yawns and lays down, and the chicks stop tweeting. We can talk with our child about what he/she feels when sleepy. This helps raise our child’s awareness of signs that his body gives when he feels tired and the importance to get enough sleep.
• We can look in the book and see how each animal gets ready for sleep, and have a conversation about what we do together to prepare to go to sleep. We can share with our child what we as parents do to get ready to sleep (such as making sure that the door locked, reading a book, having a hot drink…)
• Our child might want to draw his “Going to sleep ritual” and write a short text about it. We can collect them all as a book and name it “Good night….” (the child’s name)
• The little rabbit says good night to a group of animals. To whom do we like to say good night, how?
• At the end of the book, the mom rabbit assures her baby when she hugs him and says: ”Good night, mama loves you”. We as parents can think about what we like to say to our child before he/she falls asleep. The last question in the book can help the child to express his feelings and thoughts before he falls asleep.
• “Let’s sleep, let’s sleep…” one of dozens of lullabies for children in our culture. Even when they are a bit older, children often still enjoy listening to us singing these songs before they go to sleep.

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