Did you know that geckos have 'sticky' feet? They can even walk upside down on ceilings or up a pane of glass! Children at Porirua, Cannons Creek and Whitby Libraries had a go at making their own geckos with sticky feet yesterday as part of
my author tour.
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| A brightly coloured gecko with googly eyes |
Our model was the gold-striped gecko in "
Whose Feet are These?" illustrated by Fraser Williamson.
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| From "Whose Feet are These?" |
Fraser also created a colour-in gecko to fit on A4 paper.
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| A gecko with a smile |
It didn't take long for the children to discover that the geckos could climb the library shelves.
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| Stick on magnets help it climb |
You can make your own gecko, using this free A4 download. All you need are colouring pens, scissors and stick-on magnets, googly eyes are optional.
Find out about how Gecko feet work in my
next blog.
To learn a bit more about geckos and other lizards in New Zealand, see
Geckos and Skinks - what's the difference and
Geckos in the Garden.
Some children also made origami Beaky Book Corners. You can find the instructions for these
here.
