12 Storybook Activities for World Book Day

With World Book Day just around the corner there's no better time to share some of your favourite books, or perhaps discover a new one. To celebrate we're sharing some of our all time favourite reads & the activities we've enjoyed alongside them. 


Here are just a few of the books we've loved exploring together.
Hope you'll have as much fun with them as we did.

 Create your own beautiful unique pebble fish with Only One You by Linda Kranz.



 Explore The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch with your own paper bag princess puppet


Read, play & build outdoors with The 3 Little Pigs!


Discover & create the Gruffalo's favourite food alongside The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson


How about heading off on a Gruffalo Outdoor Play Trail, what will you discover?


Make a giant bed & see if you can climb onto it & discover the pea just like the princess in The Princess and The Pea by Hans Christian Andersen


Explore The Little White Owl by Tracey Corderoy with these cute story peg puppets


Read & explore the story of Jack & the Beanstalk  with the help of this Story Basket.


Enjoy some outdoor play with Little Cloud by Eric Carle. Where will your cloud take you?


Get creative with clay as you read Hooray for Fish by Lucy Cousins. What type of fish will you create?


Create your own mini wormery & discover more about amazing earthworms with Superworm by Julia Donaldson.


 Share a story in the dark & explore light & shadows with The Game of Light by HervĂ© Tullet. A great bedtime story to read & explore. 


Looking for more book themed activities?
You might like our Story Tree
Let's Go Read Outdoors
Playing Inside a Book
or our musical painting inspired by 'I see a Song' by Eric Carle.