• ALLITERATION EXERCISE (Fantastic Mr Fox). Don't forget the fantastic film is coming in October 2009.

• BUG ACTIVITIES (James and the Giant Peach). Ideas for bug-related fun to try after you have read the book aloud to the class.

  Teacher's notes

• DAHLICIOUS! (George's Marvellous Medicine and Revolting Recipes). Have fun inventing nasty concoctions.

• WORDSEARCH ACTIVITY (Boy)

• RHYME AND RHYTHM ACTIVITY (Dirty Beasts). A fun introduction to how rhyme and rhythm work in poetry.

  Teacher's notes

  Worksheet for children

• WORKSHEET Wormy Spaghetti (The Twits). Write about a practical joke or trick you have played, or invent one that you'd like to play.

• WORKSHEET Missing Words (The Most Enormous Crocodile). Extract with missing words, plus answers.

• WORKSHEET Back to Front (Esio Trot). Learn Tortoise Language and try it out.

• WORKSHEET Who Am 1? (George's Marvellous Medicine and Matilda). Find the character through first-person clues and make up some clues of your own.

• WORKSHEET Match-up. Match characters to the facts about them.

• ACTIVITY SHEET Make a Mini Dahl Book

• WORKSHEET Fun Facts. True and false facts about Dahl and a selection of the kind of facts that he enjoyed.

  Find more Dahl facts on the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre website

Downloadable free Dahl characters and other artwork

• NEW CHARACTER ACTIVITY: A Roald Dahl character sends a postcard.

  Postcard 1

• CHARACTER ACTIVITY Describing Mr and Mrs Twit

  Teacher's notes

  Worksheet for children

• TALE OF THE UNEXPECTED Tell a story on the roll of a die.

• Matilda's Mind-Boggling Book Quiz

• WORKSHEET Sweet Inspiration (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory). Invent some confectionery for Willy Wonka, devise a recipe and create an advertisment.

• Check out EARLY DRAFTS of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre website.

• WRITING ACTIVITY (The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me). Pick out names of magical-sounding sweets from the extract and invent some more.

  Teacher's notes

• MAGIC AND MUSIC ACTIVITY (The BFG). How to use the 'Dreams' chapter to inspire music-making.

  Teacher's notes

  Worksheet for children

• WORKSHEET Meet the Family (James and the Giant Peach). Write a poem about meeting a long-lost relative.

• WORKSHEET The Witching Hour (The BFG). Write about seeing something scary as you lookout of Sophie's window.

• WORKSHEET Metamorphosis (The Witches). Draw and write a storyboard showing how Bruno is changed into a mouse bit by bit.

• WORKSHEET Gobblefunk (The BFG). Invent some new words of your own, as Roald Dahl did.

• Discover Dahl: A guide to the resources in the Discover Dahl section of the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre website.

• Frothbungling Facts about the World in 1916 (the year of Dahl's birth)

• WORKSHEET Creative Centre. Find out how Roald Dahl liked to write and what he kept on his desk, and imagine your own perfect writing space. See Discover Dahl, above, for more on this topic.

• Where Ideas Come From. Where Ideas Come From. Suggestions from the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre for activities connected with creativity and children's ideas of themselves as readers and writers, with reference mostly to Matilda but mentioning several other titles.

• WORKSHEET Hello Motto. Find out about the motto Roald Dahl tried to live by, and write one for yourself.