Get ready to mark your calendars for 6th March 2025, because World Book Day is just around the corner! This day is all about celebrating the universe of literature and encouraging readers of every age to dive into their next great adventure. To add an extra sprinkle of excitement to your festivities, why not infuse some playful and educational tuff tray ideas into your World Book Day celebrations? Let the fun begin!
ForestTots have compiled a list of 10 creative tuff tray activities to inspire you this World Book Day.
1. Bear Hunt (left): For a recent birthday party, we created an awesome Bear Hunt tuff tray! We used herbs like Chive and Rosemary for the swishy-swashy grass, we used our ForestTots at Home: Sea Sensory Rice (here!) for the river, then we used our sensory Mud Dough (here!) for the squelchy mud, and finally some crushed ice for the snowscape (hoo wooooo!) Finish it off with some people and a bear figure, then decorate with whatever you have in your craft box (pretend leaves, fishes, pine cones) Remember to have the book nearby so you can bring it to life in front of your tot's eyes.
2. Alphabet Soup Adventure: Fill the tuff tray with water and add foam letters to create an alphabet soup. Invite children to fish out letters and use them to spell words from their favourite books. This activity promotes literacy skills while having fun with water play.
3. Stick Man (right): If you have a stick man toy handy, you could recreate the river scene from Stickman using some of our pretend mud (here!) and some vivid blue sensory rice (here!)... throw in some woodland figures, pine cones and a dusting of flour for snow, and you've got your scene!
4. Sensory Book Exploration: Gather a selection of books with different textures, such as touch-and-feel books or pop-up books. Place them in the tuff tray along with sensory materials like fabric scraps, feathers, and textured balls. Encourage children to explore the books using their senses.
5. Feed the Gruffalo (left): Fill the tray with supermarket own soup mix, then decorate with pinecones, tree figures, leaves and woodland creatures... then grab some scoops, spoons and bowls and let them create their own Gruffalo Crumble!
6. Book Cover Collage: Collect old book covers or print out pictures of book covers and place them in the tuff tray along with glue, scissors, and colorful paper scraps. Encourage children to create collages inspired by their favourite books, discussing the stories and characters as they work.
7. Hungry Caterpillar Threading (right): A fun threading activity themed around the Hungry Caterpillar is great as your tot can play along, finding the food and threading, as you read them the book! Great for fine motor skills and cognitive development.
This activity went down a treat at our recent Mini Beasts event.
8. Jack and the Beanstalk (left): This was a hit at our Stories Through Play event. By using the Potting Kit from our shop along with some Yellow Door Jack and the Beanstalk figures, we brought the cherished story to life, and children enjoyed constructing the beanstalk!
9. Book-themed Sorting Activity: Choose a theme from a favourite book, such as animals, colours, or shapes, and gather objects related to that theme. Place the objects in the tuff tray along with sorting containers labeled with different categories. Children can sort the objects based on the categories, reinforcing classification skills.
10. 3 Little Pigs (right): Recreate the tale of the three little pigs using Mud Dough, spaghetti, lolly sticks, and pretend bricks. At the Stories Through Play event, children enjoyed constructing the houses and then knocking them down!
These tuff tray ideas provide exciting methods to celebrate World Book Day in 2025, enhancing literacy, creativity, fine motor skills, and imaginative play. Whether delving into a beloved story or setting out on a literary journey, these activities are certain to ignite a passion for reading in children of all ages.
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Happy World Book Day!
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