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Pirates Love Underpants Sensory Bin

September 11, 2015 by Emma Gadsby 8 Comments

In celebration of Talk Like A Pirate Day we have teamed up with bloggers from around the world to bring you a Pirate Blog Hop hosted by Peakle Pie.

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In Adam’s eyes there is only one type of Pirate – those that love Underpants. We couldn’t make a Pirate activity without linking it to Adam’s favourite Pirate story – Pirates Love Underpants by Claire Freedman. We are huge fans of the Underpants series and have already created an Aliens Love Underpants Busy Bag and Aliens Love Panta Claus Playdough. So we created a Pirates Love Underpants Sensory Bin.

Adventures of Adam Pirates Love Underpants sensory bin

I love when you get to recycle previous sensory bases. Today we got to reuse the coloured green rice and blue pasta from our Earth Day Tuff Spot. These two sensory bases would represent the land and sea. To create the sandy shores I emptied a 500g bag of value cornflakes into our 33 Litre Really Useful Box.

Adventures of Adam Underpants pirate ship

Unfortunately at the time of writing you can not buy any Pirates Love Underpants merchandise so I set about creating our own pants loving ship. I used a Make Your Own Pirate Ship kit, painted it black and attached underpants I printed from Twinkl.

Adventures of Adam Pirate sensory play

Next I needed some Pirates. Twinkl came to the rescue with Pirate Cone Characters which were incredibly easy to make. I also decorated the sensory bin with Pirate bunting and placed our sensory bin on top of a Pirate table cloth. Finally I needed some treasure to bury. Our pant loving Pirates are only after one thing – the “glittering pants of gold” so I made one from gold paper and hid it within the sensory bin. I also placed several laminated underpants reused from our Aliens Love Panta Claus playdough.

Adam took one look at the sensory bin and shouted “look at the Pirates love underpants Pirate boat Mum-Mum.” As he started to move the Pirate ship towards him he discovered a buried pair of pants. Adam then spent the next 40 minutes moving the three different textures around to find the rest of the underpants – I had hidden about 30 pairs!

Adventures of Adam Underpants pirate playAdam placed all of the laminated underpants next to the Pirate Cone Characters. Adam finally found the “glittering pants of gold” and recognized it from the story straightaway.

Adventures of Adam Glittering pants of gold

I was suprised how little mess the sensory bin created and having the Pirate table cloth underneath meant tidying up was quick and easy. Lots of Pirate and underpants fun!

Equipment:

* Pirates Love Underpants

* Coloured green rice and blue pasta – click here to read how we made them

* 500g bag of Cornflakes

* 33 Litre Really Useful Box

* Pirate Table Cloth (optional)

* Make Your Own Pirate Ship

* Underpants printed from Twinkl

* Pirate Cone Characters from Twinkl

* Pirate Bunting (printed 6 to a page) from Twinkl

Disclaimer: We received a Premium Subscription from Twinkl to review. All thoughts and opinions are our own.

For more Pirate themed activities, crafts, play activities and more check out the fantastic Pirate activities from our favoyrite bloggers:

Pirates Blog Hop

Backyard Pirate Treasure Hunt (Map) // Umbrella Tree Cafe

Make Your Own Pirate Treasure // The Gingerbread House

DIY Pirate Vest & Patch // Play Dough & Popsicles

Set Sail with this DIY Pirate Boat //  The Resourceful Mama

It’s a Pirate’s Life for Me // Study at Home Mama

Free Pirate Play Dough Mats Numbers 1-10 // Life Over C’s

Pirate Science: Fool’s Gold, Parrots and Shipwrecks! // Share it! Science News

Pirate Colouring Pages // In The Playroom

Pirate Books for Kids of All Ages // Superheroes and Teacups

Treasure Chest Craft // Messy Little Monster

How Did Pirates Navigate? How to Read a Map // Schooling a Monkey

Pirate Sensory Bin // Life with Moore Babies

Pirate Preschool Printable // Living Life and Learning

How to Make Some Great Pirate Flags // Witty Hoots

Pirate Perler Bead Patterns // Brain Power Boy

Going on a Pirate Treasure Hunt // Play & Learn Everyday

DIY Pirate Ship and Pirate Movie Night // CraftCreateCalm

Pirate Treasure Math Printables // Kidz Activities

Make Your Own Pirate Map // My Little Poppies

Treasure Map Grid Activity // My Little Poppies

Make Your Own Map and Treasure Hunt // My Little Poppies

Create a FLOATING Pirate Ship! // Milk and Cuddles

Pirate Puppet Craft // Sugar Aunts

Hidden Treasure Cupcakes // Emmy’s Mummy

Non Scary Pirate Books and Movies // Edventures with Kids

Fizzing Pirate Treasure Adventure // Preschool Powol Packets

 

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Filed Under: Independent Play Activity, Play Activities, Some time required Tagged With: Book themed play, Independent Play Activities, Sensory Play Activities, Small World, Toddler play, Twinkl Resources, Underpants Series

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Comments

  1. Helen @ Peakle Pie says

    September 11, 2015 at 12:04 pm

    ARRRR! We think this activity is great – Pirates LOVE underpants! Thank you for joining in with Pirates! Blog Hop on Peakle Pie!

    Reply
    • Emma Edwards says

      September 15, 2015 at 6:48 pm

      Thank you for hosting a fantastic pirate resource!

      Reply
  2. Karen Bell says

    September 15, 2015 at 10:09 am

    We have that book, it’s been very popular here too. Love your sensory bin idea and it sounds like Adam was a big fan of it too.
    Thanks for sharing #LetKidsBeKids

    Reply
    • Emma Edwards says

      September 15, 2015 at 6:39 pm

      Such a fantastic book – we love the whole series!

      Reply
  3. Claire says

    September 15, 2015 at 7:07 pm

    We’ve not got this book yet. This is another fantastic sensory bin.

    Reply
    • Emma Edwards says

      September 15, 2015 at 7:14 pm

      Thank you. Pirates Love Underpants is a firm favourite in our household!

      Reply
  4. Meg says

    September 16, 2015 at 1:01 pm

    Your sensory bins never fail to amaze me 🙂 what a lovely idea. Love the different materials for the base x

    Reply
    • Emma Edwards says

      September 23, 2015 at 10:52 am

      Thank you so much! We certainly do love sensory bins!

      Reply

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