Apr
Poppins Book Nook- Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
The theme this month for Poppins Book Nook was “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles!”
We have had a super busy and crazy month with lots of sickness thrown in the mix. So, we ran out of time to do anything new for this topic. But, I decided to share some of the activities we have done from one of our favorite books.
We used “The Polar Express” by Chris Van Allsburg back in December to do a bunch of fun activities. I hope you don’t mind me sharing Christmas related activities in April 🙂 Hopefully you can just pin these ideas and use them at Christmas time.
Of course, we read the book- actually we listened to the CD of the book. Then we had a great time making some Polar Express trains.
Hunter made a train using different shapes. He also sprinkled glitter on his paper. While that was not exactly planned (ha!) it looked like falling snow.
Hunter’s finished train.
Hailey used oil pastels to draw a train.
She colored it in using Christmas colors.
Hailey’s finished train. She also sprinkled glitter on her paper to look like snow. She didn’t use glue, she just sprinkled it on and it looks great.
To finish off our Polar Express theme we had a party at the end of the week.
I used painter’s tape to make a railroad track on the floor. We used some cardboard boxes from some of my online shopping to build a train.
Hunter and Hailey sitting in the train.
Hunter and Hailey made some snow globes. (Of course, they had to wear their pajamas for a Polar Express party.)
Hailey decided to make her snowman look like Olaf from Frozen. They turned out cute.
Then they made a little graham cracker train.
It only lasted a few minutes before they started eating it 🙂
Then it was movie time! Hunter and Hailey took their seats in our train.
I punched their tickets
They also had little jingle bells, which we could all hear 😉
Then I passed out hot chocolate and popcorn while they watched the movie. It was a super fun day!
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Wow you guys had some inspirational fun with this book. Sir N would love to build a train in our home like that 🙂 Thank you for sharing pinning this for Christmas
Wow! Looks like you had a great time! Our boys would love to build a big cardboard box train!
I love the different activities you did, but the cardboard train is the best! That one looks like a lot of fun to play with! (Can you tell I’d want to get in and play too?! lol!)
Wow!! What a great way to bring the story to life. I am amazed at your cardboard box train; I wanna come play! Ha! My kiddos would love that! And your train snack looks yummy, too!
The cardboard train is great, but I love the oil pastel train as well! 🙂
It looks like you guys had a ton of fun with this! The Polar Express is a great book to read at anytime of the year!
Thank you for helping to bring a spoonful of reading fun to the Poppins Book Nook this month!
I am so saving this one for my Christmas plans with the kids for this year. Thank you for sharing this one!