How to Help a Hedgehog and Protect a Polar Bear: questions to ask and activities to try
Seventy everyday ways to help animals, from hedgehogs to polar bears. How to Help a Hedgehog and Protect a Polar Bear is a practical, hopeful guide for children.
What age is it for? How to Help a Hedgehog and Protect a Polar Bear is best for ages 6–9. Good for: 70 everyday ways to help animals and the planet.
How to Help a Hedgehog and Protect a Polar Bear (Jess French and Angela Keoghan)
- Age
- 6-9
- Best for
- 70 everyday ways to help animals and the planet
Pick one idea a week to try as a family. Small actions add up.
What it helps with
- Endangered animals
- Practical ways to help nature
- Habitats
- Taking action
Comprehension and discussion questions
Pick two or three, not all of them. “I don’t know” is a fine answer, and you can always come back to it another day.
- “Which animals need help?”
- “Why are they in danger?”
- “What can we do for hedgehogs?”
- “How do our choices help polar bears?”
- “Which idea shall we try?”
- “What else could we do?”
5-minute activities to try together
Hedgehog highway
Make a small gap in a fence (with permission) so hedgehogs can travel.
Weekly action
Choose one idea from the book to do each week.
Free printables: How to Help a Hedgehog and Protect a Polar Bear worksheet and activity pack
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- Best for
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- Age
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- Best for
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- Age
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- Best for
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- Age
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By the Growing Wise team · Last reviewed: 10 October 2026
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