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Activities for Children's Books

Birthday Cake Edible Playdough: Sue Hendra Cake Activity

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I am so excited to be working with Macmillan Children’s Books to share with you this edible playdough recipe! Firstly, because Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet are two of my favourite people when it comes to childrens books. Yes, my kids love them too (Supertato is crazy popular here) but I’m normally the one reading and it’s their books I go to first as well. Secondly because to celebrate the launch of their new book Cake we’ve been making some birthday cake themed edible playdough and it smelt sooooo good! I had my daughter on hand as product tester and she had a great time with this – I hope your kids love it just as much!

sue hendra cake activity playdough…

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Peter Rabbit Crafts for Kids

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I’m so excited about this collaboration that it’s taken a lot of effort on my part to keep it quiet until now! Peter Rabbit was always one of my favourite books when I was a kid and I’ve loved seeing how the stories have evolved over time, both with the TV series and now with a new Peter Rabbit film. I was asked by Joules if I could come up with some Peter Rabbit crafts to celebrate their collaboration with Peter Rabbit and my kids were desperate to be involved, in fact we did these first thing on New Years Day as they absolutely couldn’t wait any longer!

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The Snail and the Whale Crafts: Movable Paper Plate

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Last year at school my son studied The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson and I remember thinking at the time that there weren’t that many The Snail and the Whale crafts about so after making our movable paper plate ghost last week I thought it would be fun to try and make a little craft of the two friends off on their adventure around the world!

The Snail and the Whale Crafts Movable Paper Plate…

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Goodnight Spaceman Craft

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I’m so excited today to be working with Ora to celebrate world space week and share some news with you about their partnership with Penguin Random House Children’s UK book Goodnight Spaceman (which I love! Really love!)

This awesome partnership means that you could get your hands on a audiobook of Goodnight Spaceman read by the first British ESA Astronaut Tim Peake and recorded by him in space.

I’m also sharing two rather cool little crafts to go alongside it – one below myself which has a free printable and one from Ora. Ready for adventure? Belt up and let me tell you about all of it!

goodnight spaceman craft with ora

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Superworm Sensory Play

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Superworm by Julia Donaldson is one of our favourite kids books and while we were reading it the other night I suddenly realised that it would be super easy to do some sensory play along side it. As well as playing with it my three year old daughter really enjoyed helping me set this Superworm sensory play up and we had a good time reading along with the book and acting it out too!

superworm sensory play tub…

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