6CJ & 6JS World Book Day

Thursday 4 th March 2021

Inspiring World Book Day Activities For All Ages

1. Create a map of a place described in a book, such as Narnia, Hogwarts or Gruffalo wood.

2. Decorate a story chair with your own images and words.

3. Make a book trailer giving people a teaser of what might happen.

5.  Create a clay model of your favourite character from a book, or create a clay tile of a favourite scene from a story.

6. Bake things mentioned in your favourite books and have a Great British Book Off.

7. Create a quiz about one of our class novels EG TBITSP.

8. Make a stop start animation to show the story of a book you’re reading.

9. Use musical instruments or random objects to create a soundscape for a scene in a book.

10. Take photos of yourself reading books in unusual places as part of an extreme reading challenge.

11. Make props and masks to help act out part of a book.

12. After looking at an mythical animal from a book EG The Gruffalo, design and make a model of your own amazing creature using inspiration from different animals or mythical beasts.

13. Decorate your bedroom door to look like a book cover.

14. Use Google docs to create a collaborative story.

15. Create a large drawing of a favourite book character so that it can be displayed in the classroom.

16. Play a game of character charades, where you act as the book character and others have to guess who you are.

17. Create a collaborative 3D picture of a place described in a book, e.g. Diagon Alley.

18. Use coloured chalk to draw a story map which you can then follow to retell the story.

19. Using felt, card, googly eyes and other craft materials to hand, make book character puppets for a story sack.

20. Read blurbs of familiar books in French and try to guess which book they are about.

21. Make a meal described in a book e.g. fruit skewers for Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Giant Jam Sandwich, worm spaghetti from The Twits

22. Listen to the soundtrack of a film based on a book and guess what is happening through discussion, drawing or writing your own version.

23. Create a superhero sculpture from a story, using our lesson.

24. Compose a tune for a character from your book which represents their personality.

25. Use any French words and gestures to describe a book to someone else (like charades but with some spoken French).