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Aliens Love Panta Claus Christmas Tree

December 1, 2014 by Emma Gadsby 6 Comments

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 (affiliate link). At the end of the story the aliens decorate a Christmas tree in underpants so we created our own Aliens Love Panta Claus Christmas tree and decorated it with underpants!

Adventures of Adam Aliens Love Panta Claus Underpants Christmas Tree

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.

Adventures of Adam Aliens love Panta Claus playdough Underpants Christmas Tree

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.

Adventures of Adam Aliens love Panta Claus playdough Underpants tree

 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.

Aliens love Panta Claus Play Dough Christmas Tree Adventures of Adam

If you loved this activity then check out our other Aliens Love Underpants inspired play:

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Equipment:

* Aliens Love Panta Claus by Claire Freedman and illustrated by Ben Cort (affiliate link)

* 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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Are you looking for Christmas Ornaments crafts to do with your children? Then take a look at Red Ted Art’s Christmas Ornaments ebook. Find 30 festive easy-to-do ideas all in one place. Click here to find out more.

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Filed Under: Play Activities, Some time required, Supervision needed Tagged With: Book themed play, Christmas activity, Fine Motor Activities, Food colouring, Pipe cleaners, Playdough, Toddler play, Twinkl Resources, Underpants Series

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Comments

  1. Emma @ P is for Preschooler says

    December 1, 2014 at 5:19 pm

    What a cute idea! My daughter loves this series of books too!

    Reply
  2. Erin Buhr says

    December 1, 2014 at 8:23 pm

    I’ve never read this before and what a cute activity! Such a fun idea.

    Reply
  3. Carolyn Wilhelm says

    December 2, 2014 at 4:00 pm

    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.

    Reply
  4. Sandi says

    December 5, 2014 at 6:03 am

    Anything with underpants is always a hit. Fun activity.

    Reply
  5. Theresa (Capri + 3) says

    December 7, 2014 at 9:34 pm

    What a cute idea. Now, I want to read the book with our little ones.

    Reply
  6. Coombe Mill says

    December 12, 2014 at 5:52 pm

    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.

    Reply

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