Pacca Alpaca: Heart
Pacca Alpaca finds hearts everywhere, from balloons and a lamp to a heart of candles, then asks children to find some. A shapes video for ages 4 to 9.
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What is Pacca Alpaca: Heart about?
Pacca Alpaca: Heart is an animated video for children aged 4 to 9 in which Pacca Alpaca shows them the heart shape in the world around them.
Pacca Alpaca is a fantastically fluffy guide who travels the world with children, discovering languages and cultures along the way. This episode is part of his shapes series. It opens at a blackboard covered in chalk shapes, and then a hand draws a heart with a pen.
The word HEART is called out as hearts come on the screen in real photographs and film. There are pink and red heart balloons, a gift bag covered in little hearts, a heart drawn in the froth of a hot drink, heart-shaped lights glowing in the dark and two hands pressed together to make a heart. A sheet of paper is folded and cut into a heart, and a heart is laid out in shoelaces between a pair of shoes. Pacca joins in: he puts on a doctor's stethoscope, dances beside a glowing heart lamp and shows off a necklace of heart beads. Much of the middle of the video is pictures and music, with few words, and it builds to a heart made of little candles glowing in the dark.
At the end, Pacca is surrounded by floating hearts, and the challenge comes: "Your turn! Find some hearts!" The video lasts about four minutes and is not music-free.
What your child will learn
- A heart is a shape, with two round bumps at the top and a point at the bottom.
- We can find hearts, and other shapes, in everyday things.
- We can make a heart shape ourselves, with our hands, paper or string.
Talk about it afterwards
- Can you make a heart shape with your hands?
- Which heart things did Pacca Alpaca find?
- Can you find a heart anywhere in your home?
- Who would you like to give a paper heart to?
Frequently asked questions
What age is Pacca Alpaca: Heart suitable for?
Children aged 4 to 9, especially young children who are learning to name shapes.
How long is Pacca Alpaca: Heart?
About 4 minutes.
What does Pacca Alpaca: Heart teach children?
The heart shape, and how to spot it, and make it, with everyday things such as paper, shoelaces and candles.
