Are you going to celebrate World Book Day with your children on 1st March?
It’s a worldwide celebration of children’s books and reading and marked in over 100 countries around the globe.
Books are such a fun springboard in to all sorts of activities, crafts and play. Here are our favourite World Book Day ideas for you to try.
21 World Book Day Ideas for fun with your kids
Bring a book to life in your own small world
Use playdough to create a landscape of your chosen book: under the sea or in outer space
Use our favourite salt dough recipe to make a model Gruffalo, Bog Baby or Cat in the Hat.
Celebrate a classic with our Very Hungry Caterpillar activities ideas.
Paint, collage or junk model your own Very Hungry Caterpillar
Then grow that caterpillar and try some butterfly art
Make a peg doll of your favourite book character: superheroes, mermaids or princesses
Make a mask or puppet and invite the Tiger Who Came To Tea to play
Tell a story with these Fairy Tale Fridge Magnets
Create a set of story stones
Play the Guess Who game and work out which book character everyone is
Enjoy some seafaring stories and transform your sofa into a pirate ship
Host a Mad Hatter’s Tea party
Turn a cardboard box into a story tent
Write your own zig zag story book
Send a postcard to your favourite book character
Create your own comic book story
Write a tiny tale in an Incy Wincy Book
Set up a creation station and invite the children to write their own tales
Take the first line of a book and write your own ending
More World Book Day resources
The World Book Day site has lots of extra resources and games for you to use.
World Book Day supports two charities with its fundraising: Book Aid International which helps bring books, literacy and education to sub-Saharan Africa and Readathon, a UK charity which promotes a love of reading and raises money for seriously ill children.
Download your ready-made World Book Day Kit
The first Thursday in March is World Book Day, a day to celebrate books, stories and reading. Download your copy of the Play Academy’s ready-made World Book Day Unit and you’ll be all set to lead an engaging World Book Day celebration with your children.
These lesson plans for World Book Day include cross-curricular activities for all your children:
:: build a book nook
:: tell stories with a storytelling tin or story spinners
:: make your own non-fiction book
:: create a story world
:: play book-themed Guess Who? and math games
:: make book marks
Bonus World Book Day thematic unit printables
The Play Academy’s thematic units come with practical printables that make the lessons more engaging for your children and easier for you to teach.
No need to go searching for printables to accompany your lessons, they’re all included when you download your chosen unit.
In this World Book Day Unit you’ll receive these bonus printables:
:: a set of Book Club Questions for Any Book
:: a cut-out-and-play Goldilocks storytelling kit
:: colour-in Bookmarks printables
How to download this World Book Day thematic unit
You can download this unit along with over 50 more from NurtureStore’s Play Academy.
If you are already of the Play Academy, you can download this unit straight away from our Library here.
If you are not yet a member, find out more and choose your first unit here. Your teaching is about to get a whole lot easier!
If you would like to borrow accessible versions of the above titles we have the following: The Very Hungry Caterpillar; The Tiger Who Came to Tea, Incey Wincey Spider and many more lovely picture books. Our library is a free postal library for blind and partially sighted children and adults and each picture books contains tactile versions of the characters, braille and an accompanying audio description.
Great round up of activities and ideas!
Thank you for sharing on Kids Get Crafty!
Maggy
These are fantastic ideas! Love it!
These are excellent ideas, I will be returning for inspiration next time I babysit my friend’s children. The peg doll idea took me down memory lane – I had forgotten all about them!