Comic Strip Creation: Have the children create comic strips depicting their favourite scenes or moments from the book. Encourage them to use dialogue and captions to retell the story in a visual format. Roald Dahl Day takes place annually on 13 September, so why not try some of these ‘whizzpopping’ ideas in your STEM lessons? Charlie and the Chocolate Factory She scares George by saying that she likes to eat insects and he wonders briefly if she's a witch. To punish her for her regular abuse, George decides to make a magic medicine to replace her old one. He collects a variety of ingredients from around the family farm including deodorant and shampoo from the bathroom, floor polish from the laundry room, horseradish sauce and gin from the kitchen, animal medicines, engine oil and anti-freeze from the garage, and brown paint to mimic the colour of the original medicine. This story also leads to control activities where the children could design an escape vehicle to navigate through the underground tunnels, perhaps incorporating a digging arm for the front? Esio Trot

Charlie, George, Matilda, James and Danny all find themselves in situations where they have to use their intelligence and imagination to overcome problems, which can lend themselves so fantastically to STEM lessons. Roald Dahl’s stories have inspired generations of children, filled with extraordinary ideas, whimsical worlds and unbelievable inventions.

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George's father grows very excited at the thought of rearing giant animals so that they can end world hunger, and his family will be rich and famous. He has George feed the medicine on the rest of the farm's animals, causing them to become giants as well. a b Dellatto, Marisa (20 February 2023). "Roald Dahl Books Get New Edits—And Critics Cry Censorship: The Controversy Surrounding 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory' And More". Forbes. Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. ISSN 0015-6914. Archived from the original on 28 February 2023 . Retrieved 27 February 2023. Mrs Twit feeds her husband worms instead of spaghetti. This can lead to an investigation of changes in materials – make spaghetti worms using drinking straws and jelly. Yum! Well... This lad George, yeah? He's got no choice. Poor George. That horrible crinkly old bag is so horrible to him!

He begins to look all around the house and the barn for all sorts of medicines, lotions, creams, paints; just about anything he could get his hands on to mix up for the medicine. When he is finally complete, he gives the medicine to his granny, causing some rather unexpected results. One thing I have noticed when perusing the hundreds of silly changes made in the books (originally reported by the Daily Telegraph) is that many of them absolutely destroy clever things like alliteration, which is something that Dahl employed brilliantly.The Twits meet their end when their very strong glue is used against them to turn their world upside down. Can the children investigate what makes the best glue from household supplies? Which will hold a Lego character upside down for the longest time? George’s Marvellous Medicine Look at different types of materials… Which ones would dissolve in George’s medicine? Which ones would melt? Which ones would float / sink? Another memorable section of the story is when Mr Twit tries to stretch Mrs Twit using balloons. In the story, 60 helium filled balloons make her fly but how many would he actually need? Dr Ryan Marks, an engineer at Cardiff University, worked out that a normal balloon can lift 5.5g. If Mrs Twit weighed 70kg how many would you need? The children could investigate their estimates with small toys and party balloons. Roald Dahl was a British novelist, short story writer and screenwriter of Norwegian descent, who rose to prominence in the 1940's with works for both children and adults, and became one of the world's bestselling authors.

George creates the ultimate potion in this fantastic story of chemical exploration. It provides an opportunity to explore density of liquids, volume and capacity whilst the children create their own potions. Oh yeah, nasty piece of work, but what it makes you think, though, and wonder, is what's gonna happen to her when she tries the medicine. George's grandma bosses him around. George can't stand his grandmother and how she always treats him badly, so he decided to make a magic medicine to replace his grandma's normal medicine. He goes around his home and collects a variety of ingredients that are not food. He then adds brown paint to make the color the same as the original medicine. Think about the feelings of each character (George, his mum, his dad, his grandma, the animals) as the story progresses and what they think by the end. I would highly recommend this book because it was amazing and tremendous, and I would mainly recommend it for 7 to 12 year olds.You could also explore Frobscottle by creating recipes for the magical drink where bubbles go down instead of up. Is this possible? Matilda Mr Fox enlists the help of his family and animal friends to escape the terrifying farmers in this classic tale. Working within Scratch children could design an escape path for the fox family, avoiding the diggers, guns and floods the farmers use to try to kill them. This book still makes me laugh. And, until I read Roald Dahl, I didn't think it was possible for a book to make you laugh so much you fall of your chair, or pee your pants laughing. Yeah, I know. There are loads of funny books out there, and you can see which stories make you laugh the most.

It made George choke and splutter. It was a smell unlike any he had smelt before. It was a brutal, bewitching smell, spicy and staggering, fierce and frenzied, full of wizardry and magic.

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George manages to make the farm animals swell to gigantic sizes, could this solve the world food shortage? Can the children create their own pH scales using things found around the house? What happens when you combine liquids of different pH? This story also provides an excellent opportunity to discuss health and safety: should we eat things found around our homes? Danny the Champion of the World