- Tuesday 13 September 2016
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Today is Roald Dahl’s birthday, so it is not surprising that it is also when the world celebrates Roald Dahl Day.
With the recent release of the BFG movie, the current stage show of Matilda the Musical, and even his own dictionary being released this year, Roald Dahl is still known and beloved by children and adults around the world. His phizz-whizzing stories are being discovered by new readers, and revisited by old readers—he is firmly embedded in our pop culture.
There are many ways to celebrate this splendiferous author and his books. Here are just a few ideas:
- Have a dress up day for everyone to wear a phiz-wizzing outfit.
- Try some gobblefunk in the class and invent some new words, or play with alliteration or rhymes just like Roald Dahl did.
- Try some revolting recipes.
- Try your hand at some wondercrump craft ideas.
- Download a party pack for your classroom.
- Treat the class to a movie based on one of his books such as Fantastic Mr Fox, Matilda or Charlie and the chocolate factory.
- Encourage the children to start an 'Ideas' book, to keep all their best ideas in one place, just like Roald Dahl did.
- Create a treasure table in the classroom, where children can share weird and wondiferous treasures. Roald Dahl’s included a metal hip bone!
- Ask students to concoct a marvellous medicine of their own, after exploring the story of George’s marvellous medicine.
- Read a Roald Dahl novel aloud to your students daily, instead of individual silent reading. This will free their imaginations to run wild.
- Find some swishwifflingly silly jokes to share with the class, or get them to write some of their own to share with each other.
If some of these words are flushbunking to you or your students, and you’re feeling a little biffsquiggled by it all, then you need to start reading more of Roald Dahl’s creations! There is no better day than today to immerse yourself in his scrumdiddlyumptious stories. This should get you started: