The Girl With a Hundred Beginnings: discussion sheet

Part Three: The Relationship · about 7 minutes to read aloud · Theme: attention

A helper of bright beads makes starting easier for Tamsin, then splits into twenty helpers whose questions all return to her. They gather into one, put rest first, and keep waiting ideas in a blue book.

Choose a question to talk over, or try the activity with words and pictures.

Start here

What could the helper do that Tamsin could not, and why did twenty helpers end up at her door?

Go further

Tamsin keeps her extra ideas in a blue book. What would you put in yours to wait, and how would you choose the three to begin?

Make something

Draw a page in Tamsin’s blue book for an idea that can wait. Then draw her three-picture card, making space for rest before the work.

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