Where has all the Cake Gone by Andrew Sanders and Aysha Awwad and published by Macmillan is a funny, bright and colourful book to read. The story is brilliant and leaves you wondering at the end which is a great discussion starter. The words are written in two different fonts so that you know his is talking and this adds to the fun of the book. The pictures are brilliant to look at. They are bright, detailed and there is lots going on. If you want something fun to read then this is the book for you.
Activities
Make a cake
Make a cake as a family/group
Make a fish pie
Penguin bananas
Make a penguin
Playdough cakes
Create a story about a missing cake
Messy penguin play
Snowball fight
Penguin race
Food/Cooking
The book is all about a cake that goes missing so it makes sense for the first activity to be making a cake. To make the activity a bit more exciting each person in the family could make and decorate their own layer and then when they are finished the layers can be put together to make an awesome cake. For a more savoury dish you could make a fish pie as the penguins would love to eat fish pie. There are some nice easy fish pie recipes on the internet and your child/children can help you with the mixing, measuring and washing up etc. as you go along. A final food inspired activity could be to make penguin bananas. Cut a penguin in half and then dip the top in melted chocolate to be the head and let some of the chocolate dribble down the back. Then add some orange smarties for the beak and feet and you can buy eyes already made now (they are made of icing), or you can add your own with another colour from the smarties.
Indoor
The first activity could be to make a penguin. You could do this with crayons, paint or black and white card with a bit of orange or you could be a bit more creative. You could use a see-through cup or bottle and fill it with cotton wool and then use the cup part from the egg box for the head. Paint it black and add a beak and eyes and then this can be put on the top of the cotton wool pile as the head. You can make wings from black card and feet from orange card. Another activity could be to make or use playdough to make some scrummy looking cakes. Playdough is easy to make if you don't have any, it's just two cups of flour, one cup of water with food colouring in and a cup of salt. Mix altogether and then when your child/children have finished playing just put it in an airtight container and put in the fridge and it will last a while. A final activity could be for your child/children to create their own story about the missing cake. They can be as creative as they want and they can let their imaginations run wild.
Outdoor
If you have a sand pit, paddling pool or just a tray you could fill this with some shaving foam or ice and add a couple of plastic penguins and then your child/children could play and explore. Even though it's messy it does children good to play with messy things sometimes and outside is normally the best time to do it. Another activity could be to have a snowball fight. If you don't have any snow, then you could use cotton wool balls. You could do it as a timed snowball fight or your child/children could build a tower and see who is the first to knock it down with their snowballs. A final outdoor activity could be to have a penguin race if you have more than one child or if they have a friend round. They need to pull their trousers down a bit or put on some tights and not pull them all the way up so that they can walk like a penguin and then they can have a race.
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