The theme for this week’s Friday Club is encouraging learning at home which is something that I’m really interested in at the moment. I thought this would be the ideal opportunity to share one of my old posts with you about the sorts of activities we do to bring our favourite books to life. We’ve done this with quite a few books lately but our favourite is still Aliens Love Underpants because it’s such a funny book and there’s so many activities you can do that you can link to the book. So without further ado, I present you, An Alien Afternoon – the repeat 
One of our favourite books is Aliens Love Underpants so seeing as it’s raining outside (again) and I didn’t fancy reading it for the third time we decided to have an Aliens Love Underpants afternoon.
First we made an underpants shop! I traced some of the underpants from the book (I had to trace them as I’m pants at drawing – see what I did there lol) and then the kids decorated them. Then we set up shop in the dining room and Miss Frugal gave us all some money to buy underpants from her. We were having fun until Mr Frugal asked her if he could return a pair because he had bought them for me and I couldn’t fit my bum into them! Cheeky bugger.
After they got bored with playing shops, we did some some colouring in using the Aliens Wear Underpants printouts we found here and a really simple wordsearch we found here. Finally we decided to make our own spaceships, which sounds way more complicated than it actually was- All we did was colour in two paper plates each and stuck them together to make our spaceships. We just coloured ours in and stuck them together with a few bits of sellotape but you could make them much more authentic if you use some tin foil or paints.
I’m trying to encourage Master Frugal to learn to read at the moment at the same time as encouraging Miss Frugal’s growing love of reading so if anyone has any ideas for books they might both enjoy I’d love to hear them as we’re planning to do this again soon.
Here are the other entries in this carnival, please click through to read other posts about encouraging learning at home:
Ella at Notes From Home gives her ten tips for encouraging learning at home.
Jen at Table for Eight writes about how she gets her children to do their homework.
Not So Single Mum at Diary of a (not so) Single Mum writes about encouraging her daughter in learning a new language after moving abroad.
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I love this idea, I'm going to steal it to do with my four if you don't mind because they adore this book
I love how you found such different activities to do.
Thanks for taking part in the carnival again. x
I hope you have loads of fun, we still have about thirty pairs of coloured pants lying around in a drawer somewhere – people will think we're a bit weird if they find them lol
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I like your games, will try them too. My son is crazy about Aliens Love Underpants, in fact at the moment he seems to laugh everytime someone says "pants" so we got him Dinosaurs Love Underpants, which is also fun:)
I love the Dinosaurs one too, there's another alien one now aswell apparently
Captain Underpants sounds like it will be right up their street – thanks
You should definitely try and get hold of Aliens Love Underpants, your kids will love it!
We have the dinosaur one aswell but I dodn't know there was another alien one. We'll definitely have to check that one out.
I like the washing line idea too
Never heard of this book but off to google it now. My eldest is about the same age as Miss Frugal and he loved the Captain Underpants series and all the Roald Dahl ones. They would be great stories for Master Frugal to listen in on. Jen.
This is the boys alltime fav book, folloed by Aliens in Underpants save the word adn Dinosaurs love underpants. We made pants to colour in and then we hung them up washiung line stylie!!
We have the dinosaur one but I didn’t realise that there was another alien one!
They’d love that!
Oooh that sounds good, I'll bet there's loads of activities around that
one….
Thanks very much
x
Oh making a mental note about that one!
We like its time to sleep you crazy sheep (the sheep get up to all manner of things) at the moment
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