One Book, One School

Activities

Complete as many or as few of the chapter activities as you would like. Bring your pictures or paper of your activity to school so we can hang it on the bulletin board for the school to see!

We meet Charlie’s family and can imagine the house he lives in from the descriptive words. Describe who lives in your house using descriptive words. Draw a picture to go along with it.

Mr. Wonka is the cleverest chocolate maker. He can keep ice cream from melting and chewing gum from losing its taste. Invent a new type of candy. Describe your new candy and draw a picture of it.

Pondicherry, now called Puducherry, was a French colonial settlement until 1954 and is located in Southern India. Research a different city in India. Find out what language is spoken there, what it is known for, what physical features, etc.

Mr. Wonka shut down his factory because spies began stealing his most famous recipes. Using World Book Kids on your Webdesk, research a famous Spy.

Mr. Wonka puts out an article in the newspaper about the opportunity to enter the factory. Write your own newspaper article describing your own made up contest/event.

Create/design your own invention to help someone find a Golden Ticket in a candy bar.

Charlie celebrates his birthday every year with a gift of a chocolate bar. How do you celebrate your birthday? Write a picture or write a description of how you celebrate your birthday.

Write the next chapter, who do you think is going to win the final Golden Ticket? All of the winners so far have had strong descriptions.

This chapter was called, Grandpa Joe Takes a Gamble. What is something you would be willing to take a gamble on? Draw a descriptive picture of it.

Charlie and his family go through a challenging time with the loss of Mr. Buckets job. Plan a fundraiser or some kind of collection drive you would to help someone in need.

Write a prediction or the next chapter. How do you think Charlie's family is going to react?

Charlie won the last Golden Ticket! Write a newspaper article or record a news report that would have been recorded in the paper about Charlie winning the last Golden Ticket.

Draw an illustration of the crowd outside the gates at the Wonka Factory. Don't forget to include the winners and their families.

Roald Dahl uses a lot of descriptive details in this chapter. Draw a picture using the clues from the chapter of Mr. Wonka or draw a map of the path once they get inside.

Everything described in the Chocolate Room was edible. Describe or draw a picture of what the trees, bushes, flowers, etc. might be made out of.

Write a story about the life of an Oompa-Loompa told from their point of view.

The Oompa-Loompas sang a song about Augustus. Write your own song. It can be about the book, a character, or anything you can think of!

Draw a picture of the boat going down the Chocolate River. What did they pass?

Create your own new candy invention!

Forget what you know about the gum from the movies, stretch your imagination to try to think of other things that would make this gum unique. Write or draw your responses.