The Kangaroo and the Porpoise Activity Booklet

The Kangaroo and the Porpoise Activity Booklet (Early Stage 1/ Stage 1)

Bring Dreamtime storytelling into your classroom with this engaging activity booklet based on the traditional story The Kangaroo and the Porpoise.

Designed to support literacy, art, and early numeracy outcomes, this booklet helps students explore the story’s characters, themes and animals through hands-on, meaningful activities. It works beautifully as part of a Dreamtime unit, NAIDOC Week learning, or an Australian animals focus.

This booklet includes 10 student activities:

• Word/picture match
• What Did We Learn? reflection worksheet
• Complete the drawing – draw your family
• Story-based word study
• Label a kangaroo activity
• Character comparison table
• Count, tally and graph task
• Colouring pages of animals from the story
• Maze – help the porpoise find her baby
• Create a patterned kangaroo and porpoise artwork

Perfect for whole-class lessons, small groups, relief teaching folders or independent work, these activities support comprehension, vocabulary, discussion and creative response to story.

Note: This resource is not created by an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person and should be used respectfully alongside appropriate cultural discussions.