We recently received a beautiful copy of How to Catch a Star by Oliver Jeffers to celebrate it’s 10th anniversary.
To join in with the celebrations, I thought it would be really nice to do some activities based on the story. We received a lovely little pack of plastic glow in the dark stars which sadly won’t stick to anything in the boys room, but made the perfect accessory for our water play today!
I filled up our plastic tub with some warm water, added some blue food colouring, and gave it a bit of a whisk. I chucked in the stars, and added a few foam stars from our art cupboard. I set it out on the yard with a couple of plastic bowls, ladle and big serving spoon.
They had so much fun catching the stars with the spoon and ladle, spooning and pouring water into the bowls and tipping it back into the tub. We talked about which star was the biggest and which was the smallest.
After a good hour or so there was more blue water on the yard than in the tub, and Alex decided to finish off by emptying out the rest – all I can say is thank god we did this outdoors!! It also led to a lovely discussion when, a couple of hours later, Harrison noticed the water had disappeared, so we had a chat about the sun drying it all up.
Watch our for more How To Catch A Star themed activities over the next few days!!
Nothing better than messing about in water, so glad the warmer weather is back.
We love that book, and what a great tie-in activity- my toddler would love catching his own star!
Such a simple and fun idea. Little ones love water play
What a lovely thing to do on a sunny day. I bet your children will have happy memories from that.
Great activity, so simple yet I wouldn’t have thought of it. I need to up my creative game before Baby gets much older x
this is such a cute and easy idea, i love it!
What a fun activity to do! I can’t wait for the sun to come out to try some of these x
Such a fun activity to do! We will be trying this x
What a great idea, I’m sure the twins would love this! x
It hasn’t been warm enough here to play in water. We are suppose to be getting some more snow tonight and maybe Monday also. I am so done with winter.
Such a lovely activity
What a fab activity! My little niece loves stars! I’m going to dig out the craft foam and make some so she can play this game round our house x
How sneakily educational, love it!
A lovely idea. Both mine love water play
Brilliant activity! And a lovely book, my two children love it!
This is a great idea – pinning to remind me to do with my son when the sun come back again. Thank you.
This is fantastic and so much fun .x
Cute, and great idea! Can’t wait to get back out in the garden. Him indoors is currently out there with a rake and several big bags…. #winterneglect
That looks like fun, my son loves stars!
My boys always loved water play and this looks so much fun.
Another fun idea for us – keep them coming