The Tiger who came to Tea tuff tray

The Tiger who came to Tea is such a lovely book, which we love reading at bedtime. As my children love it so much, I used it to make a tuff tray activity.

I had to be quite resourceful to create this tray and dipped into lots of different toy boxes to get all the characters, but it was well worth it for the fun we had.

What you need for your tuff tray:

•   Sophie character
•   Mum character
•   Dad character
•   Tiger
•   Tea set
•   Buns
•   Cakes
•   Biscuits
•   Drinks
•   Pots and pans
•   Additional play food

For my activity I set it up at night for my children to come down to in the morning but, in hindsight I think this would have been a fun tray for us to have created together.

By sitting and reading through the book you can make a list of all the characters and items you need, then your children can go off on a treasure hunt to find them. When you have everything, you can decide how to lay everything out. When it’s all set your children can play with it however they want to.

Your child may also enjoy it if you want to read the story and have your children act it out as you read.