Cat's Cradle | Activities :&: Classroom Projects

Fun Classroom Activities

The 20 enjoyable, interactive classroom activities that are included will help your students understand the text in amusing ways. Fun Classroom Activities include group projects, games, critical thinking activities, brainstorming sessions, writing poems, drawing or sketching, and more that will allow your students to interact with each other, be creative, and ultimately grasp key concepts from the text by "doing" rather than simply studying.

1. Guess Who

Fasten papers to the backs of the students, declaring them to be various characters in the book. Have them ask questions of other students to determine their identity.

2. Costume Party

Have the students come to class dressed as various characters in the book. Have them address the class as these characters.

3. Inventions of Creation

The inventions in the book were weapons of mass destruction. Have the students create inventions which are the opposite of this and present them...
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