Baby Book Club

Me and Monkey love to read. And we love to spend time with our friends. So when the idea of a baby book club was mentioned at our Free From Feast we were all over it! It sounded like just our kind of thing.

I contacted a few of our friends to see if they would be interested. It sounded like they were so I started planning.

There was never any question about the first book we would read. It's my favourite - and Monkey quite likes it too!

The Gruffalo!

Everybody knows about The Gruffalo (if you don't where have you been?) so I'm not going to explain the story. I'm just going to share what we did at our very first baby book club today.

We had six babies at book club and we started by reading the story. We then had pictures of the Gruffalo to colour in before designing a scary creature of our own.

We almost had an issue with one of the activities as I'd stupidly bought play-doh without checking the packet. It has wheat in it which means it's not suitable for my little allergic Monkey. Luckily we have fab friends and one of the other mums appeared with home made edible play dough, complete with glitter and sparkle! The dough was used with play dough mats to add features to the animals from the story. That was the idea anyway - Monkey just ate it all!

The next activity was a Monkey favourite as it was all about food. Mouse talks about lots of favourite foods in the story so the babies tried some of them out. Roasted fox seemed to be the most popular!

I was quite nervous about hosting the first baby book club but it seemed to go well and I think everybody enjoyed it. I know Monkey did. We're already looking forward to the next one - We're going on a bear hunt!