I'm using it this year as inspiration for fun at the Christmas Tree Party. We'll read the book then get togged up and go for a walk into the forest and choose a tree to make into a Christmas tree for the animals (which in the book of course never eat each other, but in the true spirit of Christmas share all the nuts and fruit brought to them by Santa - though there is a slab of bacon there I notice, and a wild boar among the animals!).
So we will thread peanuts onto strings, grate cheese, shred cabbage, make breadcrubs, dip pinecones into fat and roll them in bird seed, tie up apples and carrots and coconut halves and hang them from the branches....