Write a review. Help your children to review of a book they have read and liked a lot, and then share it with us. Send your review to Nal’ibali, PO Box 1654, Saxonwold, 2132 or letters@nalibali.org or post it on Facebook: www.facebook.com/nalibaliSA Create a 2012 newsletter. With your children, write about events and achievements of each family member over the past year and then email or post it to friends and family, especially those who you do not see often. Change a story. As you tell a story that your children know, change the title, characters, or beginning or ending to make it different. Young children love it if you use their own names, and those of friends and family members as characters. Ask your children for different ways to end a story: sad, silly, happy or unbelievable. Make a New Year’s gift. Together with your children, follow the instructions in a how-to book to make some New Year gifts for friends. Your children will learn how to read and follow instructions as well as how to make something. Go on a treasure hunt. One person writes up the clues that tell everyone what they have to do next to discover where the treasure is hidden. He/she places them in different places and everyone else uses each clue to get one step closer to finding the treasure! Name the story characters. Invite your children to draw a picture of their favourite story character, keeping it secret as they draw. Put up their pictures and then see if other family members are able to guess the characters’ names and which stories they are from.