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Build up a rhythm using the Sound Buttons. Each set of notes adds up to one beat and each of the four lines adds up to one bar. Create an interesting rhythm by dragging a selection of notes onto the lines then click the button on the right to hear the rhythm.

Phrases

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Music Generator - Matilda The Musical London

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Build up a rhythm using the Sound Buttons. Each set of notes adds up to one beat and each of the four lines adds up to one bar. Create an interesting rhythm by dragging a selection of notes onto the lines then click the button on the right to hear the rhythm.

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The Plot-o-meter is a way of showing how to plan the events in story so that they continue to be interesting all the way through.

Use the Plot-o-meter below to chart the key points in your story. At which point is the action most exciting? To read the plot point click on one of the numbers below, and to change the audience's response click on the buttons in the left hand column.

This is the Sample Plot Rating.

To read each plot point, click on one of the number below. If you wish to change a rating, just click one of the buttons along the left-hand side.

This is the Sample Plot Rating.

To read each plot point, click on one of the number below. If you wish to change a rating, just click one of the buttons along the left-hand side.

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Plot-O-Meter - Matilda The Musical London

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The Plot-o-meter is a way of showing how to plan the events in story so that they continue to be interesting all the way through. Use the Plot-o-meter below to chart the key points in your story. At which point is the action most exciting? To read the plot point click on one of the...

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Character Generator - Matilda The Musical London

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Click generate to create a random character profile. Each profile ends with a question; answer it creatively to give each character more personality.

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Editable maths worksheets linked with Roald Dahl

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from 2011 but some good ideas

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http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/library/authors/roald-dahl. Lots of links on this one (sorry if you have already added Gray!)
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http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/roald-dahl
Few more ideas 😀

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http://www.twinkl.co.uk/resources/story-books-roald-dahl
Lots of resources here!

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Comprehension

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Recipe to make the medicine and create your own.

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To celebrate Roald Dahl Day on the 13th September, I've put together a fun collection of Roald Dahl science experiments and activity ideas.

My 8 year is currently devouring Roald Dahl books and I remember spending many happy hours reading them as a child so this collection has been so much fun to put together. It's not quite complete and I will be adding to it over the next few weeks so do pop back soon.

We've also got some easy Roald Dahl themed fine motor control activity ideas suitable for younger children.

If you like the idea of edible experiments for kids, you'll love my new book Snackable Science!

Roald Dahl Science Experiments

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Activities

Chocolate covered strawberries and changes of state

Learn about changes of state by melting chocolate and then using it to cover strawberries. You could investigate whether the chocolate becomes solid again faster in or out of a fridge.

Extension ideas - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Science

Try adding a little golden syrup to the chocolate, does this affect the texture and taste?

Photo thanks to The Crazy Kitchen

Making Giant Sweets

Investigate how to make your sweets bigger, by leaving them cold and warm water for a couple of hours. What happens? Our gummy bear doubled in size!
Extension Ideas
Try different types of sweets and compare the changes.

Skittles Experiment

Place some coloured sweets in water and watch as the colour leaves the sweets. Try using warm water to see if the change happens faster.

More Skittle Ideas

Can you see the floating 'S' on the water? This should separate from the skittle as the outer coating of the skittle starts to break down. Can you find any other sweets this works with? How about M&Ms?

Shrinking Crisp Packets!!!

Do you remember the part of the story where Mike TV shrinks himself? Why not try this fun crisp packet shrinking activity from The Mad House, or can you dehydrate some grapes to make raisins?

If you don't fancy shrinking crisp packets we've used shrinky art sheets before to make key rings and they worked really well.

Willy Wonka Playdough

I love, love, love this Willy Wonka inspired play dough from The Imagination Tree.

Try smelling it, mixing the colours or use forces to squash, push and pull it. A fun idea is to make a shape using the least number of movements you can.

Make Your Own Great Glass Elevator

Can your design a pulley system to lift a homemade elevator?

What materials could you use to make your elevator see through?

Georges Marvellous Medicine Experiments - Roald Dahl Science Experiments

Making potions

Make a delicious ( or disgusting ) smelling potion using herbs and flowers from the garden.

Smelling Jars

Add some scents to small jars and see if children can guess the smell. We used lemon juice, lime juice, vanilla essence and peppermint essence.

The Enormous Crocodile Activities

Camouflage Activity

The Enormous Crocodile camouflages himself throughout the story so the children don't spot him. Can you experiment with camouflage? Try leaving different coloured wool threads in the garden, which are the hardest to find?

Can you camouflage an object so it's hard for a friend to find.

The Enormous Crocodile See Saw

The Enormous Crocodile pretends to be a see saw in part of the story, can you build a see saw from recycled materials?

Danny the Champion of the World Activities

Can you design a pheasant catching device? Would you entice the pheasants into a box using a certain smell or food or would you make a friendly trap?

James and the Giant Peach Activities

Can you make a peach fly using helium filled balloons, or can you make a parachute for a peach?

Make a Wormery

Learn about earthworms by making your own wormery.

The Twits Activities

Mr Twit has a dirty beard with bits of food clinging to it. Discover what happens when food decays in this rotting apple investigation.

Make wormy spaghetti

Make some wormy spaghetti like Mrs Twit did for Mr Twit. To make this simply cook spaghetti in water and a bit of food colouring and add some pretend worms and a little vegetable oil for a fun sensory activity.

Wormey spaghetti for sensory play

How to make worms from juice

Teach Beside Me makes some fantastic worms from juice!

Make glue and an upside down house

Muggle Wump turns The Twits house upside down using Hug-Tight Sticky Glue. Can you investigate which sticky substance makes the best glue to turn a dolls house upside down? We tried blu-tack, glu-dots and sellotape.

Upside down house for The Twits

You can also make glue from milk! Try investigating how long this will hold a piece of dolls furniture upside down for.

The BFG Activities

Dream Jars

The BFG blows dreams from bottles into children's rooms, I imagine these bottles to be filled with a sparkly, glittery potion, maybe a bit like this lava lamp? What do you think?

Could you make a nightmare version using black or dark green food colouring?

How tall is the BFG?

Sophie fits inside the BFG's shirt pocket, if she is the size of an average 8 year old, how tall ( roughly ) do you think the BFG is?

Did you know human arm span is often equal to height. You can test yours with this simple ape index activity. Do you think the BFG would have a similar ape index to humans?

Matilda Activities

Matilda reads a lot of books but did you know you can stack books on eggshells without them breaking?

Do you remember the part where Miss Trunchbull swings Amanda Thripp around be her pigtails? Can you fill up a bucket of water and swing it around in a circle over your head without the water spilling?

The reason this works is down to centripetal force. If the rate of rotation is high enough that the centripetal force is at least as great as gravity the water won't spill out of the bucket.

More Roald Dahl Science Activities

This is actually not a book I have read, but I noticed Rainy Day Mum has some lovely Minpin inspired post on her site.

Anna at The Imagination Tree has a great post about her Willy Wonka inspired birthday party.

If you need a costume for World Book Day, how about this Fantastic Mr Fox mask from Red Ted Art.

Which is your favourite Roald Dahl book?

Can you think of any more Roald Dahl science experiments for us?

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To celebrate Roald Dahl Day on the 13th September, I've put together a fun collection of Roald Dahl science experiments and activity ideas. My 8 year is currently devouring Roald Dahl books and I remember spending many happy hours reading them as a child so this collection has been so much fun to put together.

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Roald Dahl Fine Motor Skills Activities.

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Roald Dahl Fine Motor Skills Activities.

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I posted a collection of fine motor skill activities a couple of weeks ago which we had a LOT of fun putting together. Following on from those we created a collection of Roald Dahl themed fine motor skill activity ideas which would be perfect for World Book Day or Roald Dahl Day.

Willy Wonka Inspired Sensory Tray

How to colour rice

Simply pour uncooked rice into a ziploc bag, add a little food colouring ( you should find a little goes a long way ) give it a good mix and leave to dry. We use these gel colours from Wilton.

I added some colourful pom poms and we used squeezy tweezers from Learning Resources to pick them out.

Younger children could try to move the pom poms to the same colour rice, or count the poms poms as they remove them.

For older children try adding some labelled wrapped sweets with numbers or letters on, children could then create words with the sweets after using the tweezers to remove them from the rice.

Mrs Twit Sensory Gel Bag

This sensory bag is made using cheap blue hair gel inside a sealable sandwich bag. I added 10 spiders and covered the edges with masking tape to stop it leaking.

My 5 year old has spent a lot of time today practising her number bonds to 10 by moving the spiders around the bag. Then putting different numbers on each side.

Mr Twit's Wormy Spaghetti

Mr Twits wormy spaghetti is similar to the rice sensory tray, but this time we've used coloured spaghetti with bugs in it, which is how I imagine the meal Mrs Twit served him to be.

The idea is to use the tweezers to remove the bugs, but my daughter couldn't resist sticking her hand straight in. It takes quite a bit of effort to move the spiders so hopefully good finger exercise.

How to make coloured spaghetti

Cook the spaghetti and leave to cool.

Add a little food colouring and a few drops of vegetable oil then mix well.

Willy Wonka Chocolate Shop

Inspired by my lovely friend Anna over at The Imagination Tree we made some brightly coloured play dough and used it to make chocolates.

I made a menu for my girls to copy, for example, 4 green chocolates with 1 straw and two pom poms. They had a great time making my 'chocolates' for me.

Play dough is great for improving fine motor skills as it involves a lot of pushing, pulling, stretching and rolling. Even I could feel my hands being exercised as we played.

Enormous Crocodile Tree Races

We used LEGO to race each other to build trees using only one hand whilst being timed. We found it much harder using our non writing hand.

Enormous Crocodile Lacing Card

This is only half finished, but I can't wait to try it. I just need to make more holes and find a shoe lace.

Can you think of any more fine motor skill activity ideas for us?

Which is your favourite Roald Dahl book? Ours is Revolting Rhymes!

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Roald Dahl Themed Fine Motor Skills Activity Ideas

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I posted a collection of fine motor skill activities a couple of weeks ago which we had a LOT of fun putting together. Following on from those we created a collection of Roald Dahl themed fine motor skill activity ideas which would be perfect for World Book Day or Roald Dahl Day.

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2014 is the 50th year of the publication of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and its enticing, magical world of chocolate waterfalls, everlasting gobstoppers and fizzy-lifting drinks. There are all sorts of events taking place to celebrate the occasion, where kids can snuggle up for a story in Grandpa Joe's bed or invent and package their own chocolate bar. But you can also cause a bit of a Dahlesque, sense-jumbling sensation at home by making lickable wallpaper. What child can resist it?

It's been done before, of course. In 2010, Heston Blumenthal, the Willy Wonka of modern cheffery, created funky, flavoured rolls of wallpaper featuring 1960s starters such as canned tomato soup and prawn cocktail. You can find the recipes in his book Fantastical Feasts, but the "sausage on a stick" formula alone has 19 ingredients and involves dryers, stencils and tea strainers. In 2012, artists and food technicians worked together to inject a little tongue-flicking fun into the lives of London office workers by covering the inside of a lift with wallpaper decorated with deconstructed Jaffa Cakes. But it took them a month.

There's also, as you'd expect, a good recipe for lickable wallpaper using apple in Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes, but it involves boiling and simmering and rolling and delayed gratification - you have to leave it to dry for over eight hours.

This method has no culinary sophistication whatsoever, but it's every bit as appealing as the original and you'll have it up on the wall before you can say snozberry.

But hang on a minute, you might be thinking. Magic aside and all that, isn't lickable wallpaper a bit gross? All that licking and re-licking and sharing of saliva. Isn't it just a recipe for a germ fest? Well, it could be. The key is to make one strip of wallpaper per child for their personal use only. It's not going to be hanging around for that long, anyway. It'll be a one-hit wonder, before they move on to enquiring whether you know how to make three-course-dinner chewing gum or grow toffee-apple trees.

Willy Wonka would be proud. Photograph: Claire Potter

Lickable wallpaper (six strips)
Boiled sweets in five different colours (3 or 4 of each colour)
An artist's paintbrush (with strong bristles)
Some sheets of gloss photo paper (plus printer and computer)
A small saucepan
First you need some traditional boiled, clear, fruit-flavoured sweets. The next step is to Google some images of fruit that match the colours of sweets you've got - it would be crazy not to include a snozberry (yes, it's easy to find images of that). Illustrations of fruit tend to look more "wallpapery" than photos.

Paste the images into a document in vertical lines so that there's one of each type of fruit in each line. Adjust the images if necessary so they are all roughly the same size - around 4 x 4 cm is good. Print them out on to gloss photo paper - which is robust and waterproof enough to take the flavouring without disintegrating. (The child's tongue doesn't tend to come into contact with the actual paper, but I checked with Kodak and they said the coating on these papers - from all manufacturers - is made of gelatin from cows' bones.) If your lines of fruit come out longer than one page, just join the pieces of paper together. Now cut the paper into strips so that there is a line of fruit on each one.

Next, melt the boiled sweets in a pan, one colour at a time - extremely slowly, over a very low heat - until they are a gooey liquid. Catch them at the point when they are fully melted but before they start to brown and use the paintbrush to spread a thin layer of the goo on to the appropriate fruit on the strips of paper: Yellow on the lemons, purple on the blackberries, etc. You need to work quickly because the liquid will start to solidify almost immeditately when it hits the paper. (The process is a bit of a pan-ruiner, but just scrape any excess goo out of the pan between colours and you won't have to wash it till the end.)

A word of warning: Keep the kids away from the hot pan, and be careful yourself. The liquid is hot enough to melt an Oompa-Loompa. This is definitely more of a make for than a make with the kids thing, and, anyway, it's going to be much more mysterious and captivating if, like Willy Wonka, you keep your "most precious sweet-making secrets" to yourself.

Now stick the strips up in a row at lickable height and let the kids at them. It's great for kids' parties or simply as a surprise to perk up an ordinary weekday. "Hey kids! Guess what's for pudding today ..."

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How to make Willy Wonka's lickable wallpaper

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2014 is the 50th year of the publication of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and its enticing, magical world of chocolate waterfalls, everlasting gobstoppers and fizzy-lifting drinks. There are all sorts of events taking place to celebrate the occasion, where kids can snuggle up for a story in Grandpa Joe's bed or invent and package their own chocolate bar.

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More Roald Dahl Curriculum Ideas from Pinterest

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More Roald Dahl Curriculum Ideas from Pinterest

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Resources

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Resources