CHILDREN’S
ACTIVITY PACK Roald Dahl’s George’s Marvellous Medicine Dr. Zeuss’ The Cat In The Hat Giles Andreae & Guy Parker-Rees’ Giraffes Can’t Dance
Roald Dahl’s George’s Marvellous Medicine
INVENT YOUR OWN MARVELLOUS MEDICINE
Create your own Marvellous Medicine. Draw the ingredients you’d use in your very own medicine and then design your own label explaining what happens if you drink your potion!
Roald Dahl’s George’s Marvellous Medicine
MARVELLOUS MEDICINE WORDSEARCH
Can you find all of the Roald Dahl and George’s Marvellous Medicine related words in the wordsearch above?
CHICKEN FARM LING FROTHBUGG POTION GEORGE A M D SAUCEPAN GRAN G N I SHRINKIN GROW G S T N E I D E SLIME INGR S SPOONFUL INVENTION Y K KRAN S MARVELLOU MEDICINE MISCHIEF ING PHIZZWHIZZ
Roald Dahl’s George’s Marvellous Medicine
MARVELLOUS DOT-TO-DOT Join the dots to discover a character from George’s Marvellous Medicine then complete by adding colour!
Spot The Difference answers • Toilet • Calor gas bottle • Kettle • Chocolate ‘bubble’ • String of lights • Floor tiles • Windmill sail • TV arial • Windmill cog • Bicyle wheel spokes
Answers can be found below.
Can you spot the 10 differences between the 2 pictures?
SPOT THE DIFFERENCE Roald Dahl’s George’s Marvellous Medicine
Roald Dahl’s George’s Marvellous Medicine
DESIGN & DRAW YOUR OWN INVENTION
Dr. Zeuss’ The Cat In The Hat
TO DRAW HOW VE LEARN YO UR RY OWN CHARACTER Here is The Cat: 1
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Dr. Zeuss’ The Cat In The Hat
W A R D O T W O H N AR E L YOUR VERY OWN CHARACTER What character would you like to create? Follow the six steps to draw your own character. Remember to start with the face and everything else will follow. Do it in six easy steps in your story recipe sheet:
Dr. Zeuss’ The Cat In The Hat
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How many words can you think of that rhyme with ‘cat’ & ‘hat’?
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Giles Andreae & Guy Parker-Rees’ Giraffes Can’t Dance
CRAZY CREATURE
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Use your brightest colours to bring the Jungle Dance to life.
Giles Andreae & Guy Parker-Rees’ Giraffes Can’t Dance
EVERYBODY DANCE! Draw you and your friends boogieing at the Jungle Dance with all the animals. Will you do a cha-cha or a waltz, or make up your own moves like Gerald?
Giles Andreae & Guy Parker-Rees’ Giraffes Can’t Dance
SEEING DOUBLE
Can you draw Gerald? Use the grid to copy the picture, then colour it in!
Giles Andreae & Guy Parker-Rees’ Giraffes Can’t Dance
DOT-TO-DOT Join the dots to find out who’s busy munching on those jungle leaves!
Giles Andreae & Guy Parker-Rees’ Giraffes Can’t Dance
JUNGLE MAZE Help Gerald find his way to the Jungle Dance!
Giles Andreae & Guy Parker-Rees’ Giraffes Can’t Dance
JUNGLE DANCE WORDSEARCH
There are twelve words hidden in this wordsearch. Can you find them all?
giraffe dancing gerald
jungle chimps tango
lions waltz warthog
rhino baboon music