Students! Take part in our World Book Day challenges!

	Activity	Suitable for
	Recreate a scene from a book Using puppets or Lego recreate a scene from a book.	All year groups.
	Story writing competition Write a story with just 200 words using the starting sentence, “The air turned black all around me.”	All year groups.
	Cover up Create your own cover for a book. You will need to add a cover illustration, a blurb and you could even put on your personal recommendation.	All year groups.
	Dress Up Get dressed up as a character and send a photo of yourself to your Head of House.	All year groups.
	Host a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party Make yourself a Mad Hatter style hat out of newspaper and cardboard.	All year groups.
	Draw a character from a book Have a go at drawing your favourite character from a book and label it with quotations.	All year groups.
	Blackout Poetry Create original poetry by taking away words! Blackout poetry is created using old book pages. Pick out the words you want to keep, then blackout all the others using a marker pen.	All year groups.
	A-Z Characters Can you create a list of characters from books using each letter in the alphabet?	All year groups.
	Origami Bookmark Create an origami bookmark. Can you decorate it to represent your House Mascot? https://www.scholastic.com/parents/books-and-reading/raise-a-reader-blog/how-to-fold-an-origami-bookmark.html	All year groups.

Cooking Challenge

	Activity	Suitable for
	Bruce Bogtrotter’s Chocolate Cake Have a go at making Bruce Bogtrotter’s cake from Roald Dahl’s, Matilda. https://www.roalddahlfans.com/dahls-work/books/roald-dahls-revolting-recipes/bruce-bogtrotters-cake/	All year groups.
	Mad Hatter’s Afternoon Tea How about baking some delicious scones that could be served at the Mad Hatters Tea Party? https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/classic-scones-jam-clotted-cream	All year groups.
	Turkish Delight from The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe This treat is Edmund’s pick when the White Witch gives him the choice of having any food he can think of! Use this recipe to make your own Turkish delight. https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/turkish-delight	All year groups.

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