We are participating in a Christmas Read and Play Blog Hop. We couldn’t resist sharing with you our favourite Christmas story – Aliens Love Panta Claus by Claire Freedman and illustrated by Ben Cort
This activity follows on from our Christmas Play Dough Aliens. We made green play dough and laminated underpants using the great resources from Twinkl. On the table Adam had access to pipe cleaners, googly eyes, embroidery rings and laminated Santa’s hats. I made a rough Christmas tree shape out of the green play dough and then let Adam choose how to decorate it.
Adam had great fun pushing the underpants into the play dough. He had to press quite hard to get the laminated underpants to stay in place but it was a great activity to develop his fine motor skills. He wrapped the pipe cleaners around the Christmas tree and topped it off with a Santa hat.
What I love about this activity is that everything can be taken off the Christmas tree and packed away ready for another day. Adam has had the Christmas tree play dough out every day since and it looks exactly the same as when we first started to play. This activity will certainly last all throughout the festive season.
If you loved this activity then check out our other Aliens Love Underpants inspired play:
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- Aliens Love Underpants Busy Bag
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- Aliens inspired “I am Super Capes” cape
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- Day 14 – Aliens Love Panta Claus Play Dough
Equipment:
* Aliens Love Panta Claus by Claire Freedman and illustrated by Ben Cort
* Green play dough – see Imagination Tree’s no-cook play dough recipe
* Underpants – we printed the ones from Twinkl
* Red card and white sticky labels
* Laminator
* Pipe Cleaners
* Embroidery rings or other decorations
Disclaimer: We received a Premium Subscription from Twinkl to review. All thoughts and opinions are our own.
Adam was 2 years and 6 months old.
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- Day 14 – Aliens Love Panta Claus Play Dough
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- Aliens Love Underpants inspired cape for I Am Super Capes
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What a cute idea! My daughter loves this series of books too!
I’ve never read this before and what a cute activity! Such a fun idea.
Very fun and engaging book and activity for Christmas! Thank you so much. I like the humor aspect which could be a distraction from the excitement which can become too much for kids.
Anything with underpants is always a hit. Fun activity.
What a cute idea. Now, I want to read the book with our little ones.
What a great fun and funky idea! Things like this are great as they get to act out what they’ve read which inspires them to keep reading! Popping in from Create Christmas.