18 Fun Llama Llama Red Pajama Activities

Llama Llama Red Pajama, written by Anna Dewdney is a fun rhyming book that forms part of the Llama Llama series. It’s a sweet bedtime story about a baby llama that has trouble falling asleep without his Mama llama. Our collection of 18 ideas includes literacy exploration activities, crafts, and more! Read on to discover all the ways you can incorporate this sweet book into your lessons! 

1. Llama Llama Craft And Writing Activity

It’s always a great idea to pair a book with a writing activity. This fun craft and writing activity will allow your students to be creative while learning important literacy concepts. You can download and print the papers and allow students to cut, color, glue, and write their own interpretations of the story.

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2. Patterned Pajamas Activity

This fun pre-writing activity will allow your students to practice the fine motor skills that they will need for handwriting while learning about patterns and color. They can roll the dice to find a pattern and then decorate the shirt with that pattern. Roll the dice again to get a new pattern for the pajama bottoms.

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3. Alphabet Matching Quilt

This fun matching activity will help your little one with letter recognition and letter sounds by recreating the colorful quilt featured in the book. You will need colored sheets of paper and a blank piece of white paper. Let your students match the letters from there.

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4. Llama Llama Red Pajama Tic Tac Toe

This fun quilt-inspired activity is a colorful version of tic tac toe. Learners will simply place the same colored squares in the boxes provided; trying to get three in a row.

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5. Llama Llama Movement Game

In this gross motor activity, one child is “it” and needs to close their eyes and call out, “llama llama” and then a color followed by the word, “pajama”. If a student is wearing that color, they need to step forward.

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6. Red Pajama Lacing Activity

This fun pajama lacing activity is the perfect way to work on fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. You can draw pajamas on a piece of red paper or print them out. Then, use a hole punch to make holes all around the edge of the pajamas. The students can then lace red yarn through the holes.

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7. Quilt Color Matching

This craft activity is a great way to introduce patterns and color words to your students. You will need colorful paper squares and tape. Students have to then match the colors directly.

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8. Llama Llama Wet Pajama

This art center, sponge activity is the perfect addition to your craft center. Simply print out a pair of pajamas and give your students wet sponges to paint them with.

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9. Llama Llama Tracing Activity

This hands-on activity is a great way to teach students about patterns while they practice their pre-writing skills. Simply print out the different patterns on colored blocks and allow students to arrange them on their own squares to make a patterned quilt.

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10. Roll-A-Llama Game

This fun math craft will help your students learn to count and make connections. All you need is some construction paper to trace or print on, scissors, glue, and dice. Let your students roll the dice to determine which feature of the baby llama to glue first.

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11. Llama Llama Printables

These pre-made digital activities are a great way to reinforce learning and to get older students to focus more on the story than the artwork. These no-prep worksheets include a color-by-number and writing pages so you can decide what you want students to work on.

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12. Create Your Own Pajamas

This color word recognition activity is a great way to reinforce or introduce color words to your students. Tear up colored construction paper and place the pieces on paper plates. Write the name of the color on the paper plate and allow students to create their own colored pajamas by sticking the shreds onto an outline.

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13. Create Your Own Pajamas

This fun craft will allow students to create their own pajamas for their baby llama. Simply hand each student a piece of red construction paper and a cutout of the llama and explain to them how to fold it. They can then adorn it with buttons and other decorative elements. 

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14. Math Extension Activity

This math extension activity is a fun game where students learn place value, how to read numbers on a dice, and also learn about body parts.

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15. Llama Llama Red Pajama Read Aloud

This video shows an adapted book that makes the story more interactive. This is a great way to get children more engaged and to help them explore concepts like emotions, time, and themes in the story.

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16. Llama Llama Red Pajama Worksheets

These ready-made worksheets are a great way to reinforce the story and teach your students certain literary terms like sequencing, main idea, characters, etc.

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17. Matching Pajama Game

All you need to prepare for this fun activity are assorted pajama printables and allow your students to then decorate them. Write their names on the pictures and make copies. Let your students then lay out their pajamas and make matches. 

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18. Baby Llama Craft

This fun and easy craft is the perfect conclusion to the story. Print the outlines and allow your student to get creative with their decorations and coloring.

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