World Book Day 2026!

The pre school children have been very excited to celebrate World book day this week and have been dressing up in wonderful outfits throughout the week including princesses, The Gruffalo, Tabby McTat, pirates and of course a couple of superheroes. The children have engaged in many story themed activities throughout the week such as creating 3D Elmer by using the coloured duplo blocks, dinosaur themed role play whilst creating their own helicopter stories and have also become authors and illustrators themselves, creating a story alongside some pictures in their individual homemade story books. The children have been very excited on the build up to their dress up day, discussing with each other what their outfits are going to be and couldn’t wait to show them off to each other. Whilst some children grouped off to join in with various story themed activities, some other children enjoyed a sing along to frozen whilst showing off their dancing and lovely singing to ‘Let it go’. At group times, the children have been exploring some of their favourite story books and using many story sacks to bring their stories to life. 

The toddlers were so excited for world book day and to see all of their friends dressed up. There were dragons, fairies, Paddington bears, Little Red Riding Hood, and many more! The children greeted each other with happy smiles and excited squeals as they recognised their characters. The children loved getting to read many of their favourite stories and explore lots of story sacks, using the different props and characters to role play. A few children retold the ‘Day monkey, Night Monkey’ story with the different characters; using lots of animal sounds to make the animals speak to each other, there was lots of ‘ribbiting’ for frogs and ‘oo oo ah ah’ for the monkeys. They also got to make their own stories with comments of, “I’m making a story for my mummy” and “mines got a dragon”. 

The under 2s celebrated World Book Day with lots of different stories and a “Handa’s surprise” themed food tasting. Whilst out on the daily walks, a group of the children excitedly sat down to listen as they saw the stories being taken from inside the buggies. They all sat very nicely as they listened to “3 little pigs”, “the wheels on the bus”, and “love”, joining in where they knew the words. 

The children did a great job exploring the feel and taste of lots of different fruits during the food tasting, including mango, passion fruit, and avocado. A couple of the children tucked straight in when they saw the avocado, with one shouting “Cado!”, and another giving the word ‘avocado’ their best shot! A couple of other children were more wary of the avocado, and a lot of them were slightly hesitant to try the passion fruit, however after a little bit of encouragement they all tried each of the fruits, and some of them polished off every tasty piece!