The Tiger Who Came To Tea Fun
One of the many books that we read over and over again is The Tiger Who Came to Tea so as part of My Little Bookcases My little Book Adventure is to Dine with a book character – this was perfect. When I asked J who he wanted to come to Tea he said “The TIGER”.
The Tiger who Came to Tea
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What you need to Throw your Own Tiger Who Came to Tea Tea Party
To make your invitations
For the Tea Party
Tiger Mask to Make or already made
Your Tiger who Came to Tea Tea Party Activity for Toddlers and Preschoolers.
This was one of he first opportunities I had had with J to talk about the book in more detail instead of just reading it through -we talked about what happened in the book, what we thought the Tiger would like to eat and drink and who could be the Tiger at our Tea Party that we were going to invite him to come to.
It did take J a little while to realise that we couldn’t actually invite a Tiger, but in my box of stuff I have a Tiger Mask so I showed him that and he was OK with that.
As we went through the ideas I did a brain storm for him – I think it’s really important that children see us writing, so much of our written communication is done via Computers now that writing by hand is becoming a lost art so when ever I can I make sure to write lists, envelopes, cards, ideas and anything else I can think of in front of him. I’ve made some simple wipe clean sheets with plain paper that I laminated that we can reuse over and over again.
We started off by making some invitations to invite The Tiger and his friend to come to tea – using the method to make animal skins that we have done before J had a lot of fun tearing up paper and gluing it in place to make the invitations.
When the big day came – the weather was glorious so we decided to have our tea party in the garden. First we re-read the story – J’s friend A wasn’t familiar with the story but loved it and insisted at first to be the Tiger and her Mum join in with the party then they swapped J had a go as well play acting arriving at the party. We did make believe the tea party – well drinking straight from the tea pot and the tap weren’t something that we really wanted J and A to do.
T joined in as well – she was great at roaring like a Tiger and sat and drank tea at the tea party with us as well.
We’ve really enjoyed having one of our book characters to dinner and are really looking forward to project 5 of the My Little Book Adventure.
What great fun! I love how you brought the story to life!
What a fun way to bring the book to life, and what a cooperative Tiger! 🙂
What a great way to touch on comprehension of a story and having so much fun while doing it. Just wondering how old your little ones are? I just found your blog and love so many of your ideas, my little guy is almost 2.
Thanks for another great idea.
-Megan
What a great way to explore a story and it’s characters! Naughty tiger drinking from the tea pot! 😉
This is such a good idea bringing stories to life. A love of reading and books can stay for life if it is made exciting when only young!
We’re having so much fun, crafting and playing with ideas from the books that we read it really does help with learning as well