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Aliens Love Panta Claus Play Dough

November 26, 2014 by Emma Gadsby 9 Comments

We are excited to be participating in a collaborative Story Book Advent with 30+ amazing kid bloggers. We have each chosen a children’s Christmas book and are sharing a craft, activity, or recipe to enrich it. For us the story had to be Aliens Love Panta Claus (affiliate link) by Claire Freedman and illustrated by Ben Cort.

Adventures of Adam Aliens Love Panta Claus

As you may know we are huge fans of the Aliens Love Underpants series. So far we have created an Aliens Love Underpants Busy Bag and the book inspired us to create an Aliens cape for I am Super Capes. Therefore choosing our favourite Christmas story was easy.  We created Aliens Love Panta Claus Play Dough.

I used our favourite no-cook play dough recipe from Imagination Tree and added green food colouring. I placed pots of googly eyes, embroidered rings, mini rolling pin and pipe cleaners onto the table as well as different coloured shop bought playdough (which didn’t get used). As the Aliens in the story wear Santa hats I made a few from red card and used a white label to make the fur. I laminated the hats so they could be reused.

Adventures of Adam Aliens Love Panta Claus invitation to play

We enlisted the help of Twinkl to create the underpants. They have a great Aliens Love Underpants Size Ordering sheet which I simply cut out and laminated. The great thing is that you automatically have different sized underpants so you can make a range of different sized aliens.

Adam got stuck into the activity immediately. He used the rolling pin to flatten out the green play dough and then used the end of it to make holes in his alien. He added some red underpants, a santa hat and delicately placed the googly eyes in the holes.

Adventures of Adam Aliens Love Panta Claus playdough

Adam soon had three aliens on the go and added items to each alien in turn.

Adventures of Adam Aliens Love Panta Claus Christmas playdough

It is hard to remember that only this time last year Adam would not go near play dough and hated touching it. With the play dough aliens he focused for over an hour creating several aliens independently.

Adventures of Adam playdough Aliens

Equipment:

* Aliens Love Panta Claus book (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

* A4 Laminator (affiliate link)

* Googly Eyes (affiliate link)

* Pipe Cleaners (affiliate link)

* Mini rolling pin

* 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

Adventures of Adam Aliens Love Panta Claus Play Dough

Story Book Advent

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. Mummy Tries says

    December 1, 2014 at 6:47 am

    What a lovely idea for a craft session! My 2yo loves Dinasours love underpants so we might have to give this a whirl 🙂 #MagicMoments

    Reply
  2. Jollyjillys says

    December 1, 2014 at 9:24 am

    Wow that book looks great and you cant beat play dough lol

    Reply
  3. Coombe Mill says

    December 1, 2014 at 10:11 am

    What a great activity to start off with. I love the creativity that Adam showed with all his different designs. My favourite alien he made is the one with underpant shoes. Popping in from Magic Moments.

    Reply
  4. Joanna @mumbalance says

    December 1, 2014 at 11:41 am

    Looks like lots of fun 🙂 I am planning on making play dough next weekend. Bough the mysterious cream of tartar yesterday…
    #magicmoments

    Reply
  5. Merlinda Little (@pixiedusk) says

    December 1, 2014 at 6:53 pm

    Aww he is really into crafting! What concentration here and cute works too =) #MagicMoments

    Reply
  6. The Mummy Diary says

    December 2, 2014 at 9:08 am

    What an absolutely great idea and wonderful way to play with play dough, might have to get making!! #magicmoments

    Reply
  7. Cerys from Rainy Day Mum says

    December 4, 2014 at 9:58 pm

    This is one of J’s favourite Christmas books – I think my printer will be extra busy making up the underpants to use and we’ll get doing this for one of our advent activities this year.

    Reply
  8. Grace @ Eats Amazing says

    December 6, 2014 at 7:13 am

    I love this idea, it looks like so much fun! We have the other underpants books but I hadn’t seen this one, will be keeping my eye out for it!

    Reply
  9. Mihaela says

    December 6, 2014 at 9:44 am

    Love the idea and books sounds like lots of fun! Not sure we have it here, will have to order online! 🙂

    Reply

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