Book an Activity is a new feature on our blog which suggests book-related activities to make the story come alive.
BOOK
Icky, Yucky, Mucky!
Maharaja Icky is quite the most disgusting King you’ll ever have the misfortune to meet. The ruler of the kingdom of Ickhtarpur regales all with his utterly vile table manners. While he sits licking curry from hand to elbow and juggling rosogullas, his beloved nail-nibbling queen Maharani Yucky, joins him.
Banned from using spoons or nail cutters, the people of Ickhtarpur are at their wits’ end. But their hopes rise when the announcement comes that the Maharani is expecting a little baby…
The deliciously gooey tale of Icky, Yucky, Mucky! with gleefully gross illustrations by highly acclaimed children’s illustrator Anitha Balachandran, will have children squirming in their chairs and yelling with delight. And perhaps, learning a lesson or two in table manners!
ACTIVITY
Natasha Sharma, author of the book, has a bunch of fun activities on her website to go along with her books. We’ve picked one for this deliciously disgusting book, which also happens to be our Book of the Week. To read all her activities, head over to her website.
Snot Bookmark
What you need:
- Thick sheet of paper
- A smaller piece of paper in yellow or sickly green
- Sticky tape or double sided tape if you have some
- Child safe scissors
What to do:
Cut out a rectangle of size 5 inches x 1 inch for your bookmark from a thick sheet of paper.
Copy the shape of the glob of snot from the picture shown here onto a sheet of yellow or sickly green paper. Try and make your glob broader that 1 inch. You can even cut out two globs, one smaller than the other.
Take some sticky tape and roll it to make it work like a double sided tape.
Use it to paste your glop of snot onto the top of your bookmark. You could paste two of them like we’ve done in ours.
Fold the bookmark over in the centre like shown. Stick it into your book and go YEEEW! each time you sit down to read.
Kahani Tree 