Message in a Bottle 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. Your Own Message in a Bottle

Have students create their own messages by writing or typing out what they want to say on a piece of paper. Students should put their message in the bottle. Fill up a container, and put all the messages inside and then have students pick a message out of the container and read it aloud for the class. Discuss some of the messages students found during the activity then recycle the containers.

2. Pen Pal

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