Isla & Pickle Activity Pack

Get to know our favourite Shetland pony with some creative and crafty activities.

Dive in this summer with the Isla & Pickle Summer Fun Activity Book! Created by Kate McLelland to accompany the Isla & Pickle picture books, Kate’s activity pack is free and easy to download. You can learn how to draw Pickle the pony, with colouring in, maze searches, maths puzzles and more fun things to do over the summer holidays.

How to Draw Pickle

Find out how Kate draws the cheeky Shetland pony in this fantastic video! Kate shows you how she starts by building up basic shapes, then uses this as a guide to create a fully-formed Pickle!

#PickleOnTour

Missed the Isla & Pickle blog tour action? Fear not! Read our latest #FlorisDesign interview here. Kate shares her love of folk music, ice cream, her sister and explains why Pickle really is the perfect pony.

About Isla & Pickle

Isla & Pickle: The Highland Show is the second picture book in a new series about a feisty little girl, a cheeky Shetland pony and their adventures. Led by Pickle the pony, they get up to all sorts of mischief. Pickle loves escaping from his field and getting very messy! Perfect for any children with a penchant for ponies, this book is full of fun in the great outdoors. Bright, humorous illustrations are sure to make grown-ups smile and give wee ones the giggles.

About the Author

Kate McLelland is an accomplished illustrator and printmaker. She trained in illustration at Edinburgh College of Art. She is the illustrator of bestselling picture book There Was a Wee Lassie Who Swallowed a Midgie and the My First Scottish board book collection.