PARTY PACK 2019 PLANNING CONTENTS YOUR DAY Miss Honey Has Some Ideas for Teachers on How to Structure Your Celebrations in the Classroom

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PARTY PACK 2019 PLANNING CONTENTS YOUR DAY Miss Honey has some ideas for teachers on how to structure your celebrations in the classroom:

Celebrate 3. Greetings! Breakfast Club: Roald Dahl 4. Invitations 1 • Eat some toast together! (Just like Miss Honey and Matilda!) Day in Style! 5. Party Hats • Make your own Roald Dahl Day party hats, page 5. 6. Dahlicious Dress-up 7. Puffin Schools Morning: • Decorate your classroom door to look like a 2 magical library – Matilda’s favourite place to be! • Time to dress up! Use the Dahlicious Matilda’s 8. Write with Matilda dress-up page for ideas! Marvellous 10. Floating Feat Break time: Activities GREETINGS, • ‘What’s the time, Miss Trunchbull?’ 11. Matilda’s Wonderful Word Quiz 3 A Matilda spin on the classic, ‘What’s 12. Scare Miss Trunchbull BRAINBOXES! the time, Mister Wolf? 13. Competition: Matilda’s New Classmate Mid-morning: This year we’re celebrating Matilda! 15. Book Cover Collage • Story time! Read your favourite Roald Dahl story. Inside this pack you’ll find ideas fit for 4 • Use the Write with Matilda activity from 16. Matilda the Musical our very own magical genius, along with this pack to get your class’s brains fizzing with ideas! 17. Matilda’s Brilliant Bookmarks a sneak peek at the wicked witches who have some devious plans for 2020. Lunch: No matter where you’re celebrating, • Play hide-and-seek in the playground – with you’re going to have a marvellous day. 5 the seekers playing Miss Trunchbull. Titchy Toddlers 18. Roly-Poly Bird • If it’s a wet lunch, spend the time making Craft Activity LET THE PARTY BEGIN! Matilda’s brilliant bookmarks, page 17. Afternoon: • Competition time! Use the entry sheet in this What’s 20. Watch Out for the 6 pack to enter the Roald Dahl Day competition and win some exciting prizes! Coming Up . . . Witches! • Tune into a very special Roald Dahl Day 21. How to Spot show – look out for details coming soon on the Puffin Schools website. a Witch Home time! 7 • Give each chiddler a copy of the Roald Dahl Day certificate to take home with them! Essentials 22. Classroom Crafts with YPO and Pritt 13 #RoaldDahlDay 23. Certificate SEPTEMBER @Roald_Dahl © The Roald Dahl Story Company Limited / Quentin Blake 2019 2019 www.roalddahl.com 3 INVITATIONS Roald Dahl Don’t forget to send these out at least a week before your party! Include a letter PARTY HATS home to parents or grown-up human beans to let them know the details of your party and any preparation that they might need to do. If required, ask a grown-up to help. Cut along the dotted lines and fold over the edges, and slot the fold in. Glue down the folded part and pop the hat on to your guest’s head. Add some elastic or string if they’ve got a wiggly noggin.

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Discover more phizz-whizzing activities and video resources to bring Roald Dahl’s stories to life in your classroom.

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© The Roald Dahl Story Company Limited / Quentin Blake 2019 SEPTEMBER @Roald_Dahl 2019 www.roalddahl.com 6 Write with Four different characters are speaking below. What do you think each character’s personality is like? Write your ideas underneath each quote. MATILDA “Oh my gawd! What’s happened to me! “ What piffle is this you are talking, madam? “You witless weed!” A character’s personality can be revealed in what they say. I look terrible! I look just like you gone wrong!” You must be out of your mind!” Miss Trunchbull is an angry and cruel head teacher who uses lots of creative insults!

“ You ignorant little slug!” “ You witless weed!” “ You empty-headed hamster!” “ You stupid glob of glue!” “And don’t worry about the bits you can’t “I . . . I . . . I simply put the fourteen down “ You bursting blister!” understand. Sit back and allow the words in my head and multiply it by nineteen. to wash around you, like music.” “ You moth-eaten maggot!” I’m afraid I don’t know how else to explain it.”

Can you make up your own creative insults?

Look at Miss Trunchbull’s speech below. Use the ideas box for extra help. “It makes me vomit,” she went on, “to think that I am going to have to put up with a load of garbage Characters can say the same thing in lots like you in my school for the next six years.” of different ways.Write a sentence of speech His speech was never very delicate but Matilda Imagine one of the children is brave enough to for each character below. Remember to use was used to it. reply to Miss Trunchbull. What would they say? correct punctuation. A child in the playground asks a friend what is wrong.

A zookeeper asks an elephant what is wrong. IDEAS BOX

MOULDY INSECT grimy creeping pit of mud stinking LEAKING roach RAT A burglar asks a policeman what is wrong. TRAIL OF HORRIBLE PIECE OF ROT SLIME

This activity has been taken from the book Roald Dahl’s Creative Writing with Matilda: How to Write Spellbinding Speech (pages 18–19).

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When Miss Trunchbull wrongly accuses her of putting a newt in the water WORD QUIZ jug, Matilda feels a strange sense of power. She uses that power to tip over a water glass without touching it, spilling it on her horrible head teacher! MATILDA IS A WHIZZ WITH WORDS! Can you find all thewords hidden in the word search below?

TOP K U E J O Y I D P I Q X D C R C TIP YOU WILL NEED: Use the same process W M Q W A H V C X R N E Y P X R TISSUE PAPER to lift up feathers and • polystyrene balls. • A PEN O F I T H B H S T G E A S N H U SCISSORS What to do: • A BALLOON F U G S F S N X U H W S P I V N • A WOOLLEN JUMPER 1 • Use tissue paper and N G D V S W O P R U T L S Z E C OR SOME FAKE FUR a pen to trace over OPTIONAL: FEATHERS • the newt shown C E M M K T F L Q G U Y R D A H AND SMALL above twice, then POLYSTYRENE BALLS cut them out. E X T R A O R D I N A R Y M B E M E D P V P N U J U D E H P C M 2 3 A Y M I S S H O N E Y S R I Q K Blow up the balloon Hold the balloon near your PHENOMENALMatilda's FACT and rub it with the hair. If you feel your hair T X A Z O Q I T A C R L K G T Y jumper or fake fur for moving towards it, then the While performing this trick, you discovered static electricity – a stationary electric at least 20 seconds. balloon is ready! I U G U V W P T I O H M O T P Z charge produced by friction (when two objects rub together). When you rubbed L F I A B E B R K C Z B O A I D the balloon, electrons jumped from the material onto it. These electrons produced the force that pulled D I C H O K E Y S I V T U I W C on the paper newts, lifting them up! A L U A E M R T T N H M R L H Z P S S R U O C R E K V C A S L K A L Z X M S J Y P Z W K E R Y N

4 Hold the balloon above the newts. MATILDA MISS TRUNCHBULL Command, ‘Lift up! Lift up!’ and amaze your audience as the newts CRUNCHEM MISS HONEY float up without you touching them! NEWT PIGTAILS MAGIC EXTRAORDINARY This activity has been taken from the book Matilda’s How to be a Genius (pages 36–37).

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Matilda and her classmates cleverly use a newt to scare Miss Trunchbull. Matilda is incredibly brave and brilliant – but she can’t defeat the Trunchbull Now you can make your very own! Follow the steps on her own! It takes the help of her fellow classmates to truly triumph! Can you below to create a frightening amphibian. help Matilda by giving her a new classmate to join her adventures? Draw a new classmate for Matilda and write a short paragraph about them. What is their name? What do they like doing? What don’t they like? Be creative! STEP 1: Cut out the body. Be careful to only cut out the outline WHAT THE THE PRIZES: JUDGES ARE – the dotted lines show you where HOW TO ENTER: LOOKING FOR: Win tickets to Matilda The to fold the shape later. Use the next page for your THE JUDGES: Imagination – be creative! Musical, a full set of Roald Really think about what unique entry. Don’t forget to clearly A panel of judges including Dahl books for your school attributes you can give to your fill in your school’s contact a member of the Roald Dahl and a Quentin Blake print character. Why would this classmate details and post your entries Story Company, a book of Matilda at 30. Full terms be a good addition to Matilda’s class to Roald Dahl Matilda cover designer at Puffin STEP 2: Decorate your newt’s body! , Puffin Books, and conditions at: http:// and how would they help Matilda Competition Books and a representative defeat Miss Trunchbull? Think about bit.ly/Matilda2019Comp 80 Strand, London, WC2R ! from Matilda The Musical giving dimension to your character by 0RL by Friday 18th October will be selecting the winner! giving them an interesting backstory! STEP 3: Fold your newt’s body along the dotted lines (one middle crease and two side folds). Here’s where we need Meet the characters from the book and get inspired! to be careful… Cut along the newt’s spine: cutting along the middle crease up to the side folds . The side folds will come together to form the belly of the newt underneath his spine. Glue these two side fold pieces together. You now have the slinky body of your newt! Matilda Wormwood Bruce Bogtrotter Lavender An extraordinary child at The boy who dares to steal Matilda’s best friend. She is the centre of our story. She’s a slice of the Trunchbull’s gutsy and adventurous, just STEP 4: Now it’s time to give got a magical mind, loves chocolate cake. When she like Matilda, and is very good your newt a head and legs. Be reading and isn’t afraid to challenges him to conquer the at playing brilliant tricks on creative! You can use all sorts of stand up for what’s right. entire cake, he succeeds! unsuspecting grown-ups. things, for example pipe cleaners to make its legs and coloured card for its head.

STEP 5: Decorate your newt! Add a pair of wobbly eyes and some sparkling sequins to give Miss Honey Miss Trunchbull Mr & Mrs Wormwood it shine. You could even cut out Matilda’s kind class Matilda’s hulking and Matilda’s very stupid and some ribbon to give it a tongue! teacher who wants to horrifying headmistress, despicable parents who help her and make others who thinks all her pupils show absolutely no realize how brilliant she is. are rotten little stinkers. interest in her at all.

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© The Roald Dahl Story Company Limited / Quentin Blake 2019 SEPTEMBER @Roald_Dahl SEPTEMBER @Roald_Dahl © The Roald Dahl Story Company Limited / Quentin Blake 2019 2019 2019 www.roalddahl.com www.roalddahl.com 12 13 Competition TOP TIP! Book Cover Make sure to use Pritt to stick COLLAGE ENTRY PAGE everything down MATILDA LOVES READING! Can you create a cover for a book that you think Matilda would like to pick up and read? Use old newspapers and magazines to create a collage on the blank cover below. Use your imagination, it can be a cover for a book you’ve read – or it can be a cover for a book you’ve made up yourself!

Write a few lines about your chosen book – why do you like this book and/or what is the story about?

Name: Age: School:

Email/Contact:

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NOW IN ITS 8TH YEAR AT THE CAMBRIDGE THEATRE IN LONDON! CREATE YOUR VERY OWN BOOKMARKS! For booking details and more information on the extensive education programme, Colour in the bookmarks below, then cut along the lines – and visit www.matildathemusical.com you’ll have your very own personalized bookmarks to use when you read!

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Use lots of lovely craft supplies to create ‘A beautiful blue Roly-Poly Bird flying across a big blue sky’. Make a collage of his extraordinarily colourful tail! You can use feathers, paper, pipe cleaners and more!

Celebrate Roald Dahl Day your titchy toddler! with Introduce them to colours and the alphabet with these two new board books!

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WATCH OUT – THERE MAY BE WITCHES ABOUT! Witches dress in ordinary clothes and look like ordinary women but there are some You’ve just stolen a bottle of Formula 86 from the Grand High Witch! Make your subtle signs you can look out for that may save your life if you encounter one! Read the way through the maze with the bottle to escape. Be careful not to get caught! extract from The Witches and look at the picture below to learn how to spot a witch.

BALD HEAD WITH As far as children are concerned, a REAL WIG RASH WITCH is easily the most dangerous of all the living creatures on earth. What makes PECULIAR her doubly dangerous is the fact that she NOSE doesn’t look dangerous. Even when you know all the secrets (you will hear about those in a minute), you can still never be WIG CLAWS quite sure whether it is a witch you are gazing at or just a kind lady. If a tiger were HIDDEN BY able to make himself look like a large dog GLOVES with a waggy tail, you would probably go up and pat him on the head. And that would be the end of you. It is the same with witches. They all look like nice ladies. SINISTER For all you know, a witch might be living HANDBAG next door to you right now.

Oh, if only there were a way of telling for sure whether a woman was a witch or not, then we could round them all up and put them in the meat-grinder. Unhappily, there is no such way. But there are a number of little signals you can look out for, little quirky habits that all BLUE SPIT witches have in common, SQUARE and if you know about FEET WITH these, if you remember NO TOES them always, then you might just possibly manage to escape from being squelched before START you are very much older. HERE WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW TO AVOID A WITCH? READ THE REST IN ROALD DAHL’S THE WITCHES.

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Make sure you’ve got your Pritt handy so you can create classroom displays, stick together a newt to terrify The Trunchbull and put the finishing touches to your party hat!

Find out how to make a newt to scare The Trunchbull on page 12! Date:

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