Aliens in Underpants Save the World

 When my son grabbed the book Aliens in Underpants Save the World for his baby sister's summer reading prize, I couldn't help but laugh!  Of course, he would want to read a book about underpants!  What three year old wouldn't?

Aliens in Underpants Save the World by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort is a hilarious rhyming story!  In the story a huge meteorite is heading straight for the planet.   The aliens are determined to save planet Earth because their underpants supply comes from here.  To save the world they make a giant pair of... what else...underpants and the meteor bounces right off the underpants and back into space.  The colors in this book are bright and the pictures are amusing.  My three year old just loves it!

Since winning this as a prize from the library, we have read this book MANY times and I have tried to think of some activities that would be fun to go along with the book.  I love this idea on Taming the Goblin's blog for decorating underpants that was created by Make, Do, and Friend for The Educator's Spin On It Love Books Exchange!  This could be perfect for children who are new to using the potty!

I took this idea and decided to make paper underpants instead of real underpants, although my three year old would have LOVED to decorate REAL underpants!

One afternoon when we had a little time to spare I brought out the underpants with some markers, stickers, glitter, and glue.

We had so much fun.  I drew underpants of my own, but then found these great printables to go along with the book! 

He is always happy when I bring the glitter out!

Here are some of our designs.  Be sure to look for us on the next Project Runway lol!

I also thought it would be fun to incorporate the clothesline from the book into some learning, so I wrote each letter of my son's name on a pair of construction paper underpants.  I hung up a clothesline, handed him some clothespins and had him hang his name up in the correct order.

Here is an example.

This was perfect practice for fine motor skills.  He also is learning to recognize his name, which is one of the first things they will work on in preschool this year!

Here he is reading his name.  He was so proud of himself for hanging up all of the letters in the correct order that he couldn't stop smiling!  His comment afterwards, "Mommy this is a fun game.  Let's do it again!"

This clothesline would also work great for putting numbers in the correct order!

Later on in the day, he decided to hang our "underpants artwork" up on the line!

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