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Poetry Pebbles
Submitted by: Andrea Mulder-Slater(GR. 4-6)
A super way to get the creative writing juices flowing.
Materials:
- Small rocks or pebbles.
- Small paint bushes.
- Water and water containers.
- Magic markers.
- Paint (make tempera paint thicker by adding glue or flour).
- A covered work area.
- A shoebox, yogurt or empty "Jiffy Pop" popcorn container.
- Hairspray or a spray varnish.
Directions:
- Make sure your pebbles are clean.
- Paint words onto your pebbles. You could also use markers instead of paint.
- Choose a number of words -- people, places, things, action words etc. Some good ones are:
- he
- she
- to
- love
- dog
- went
- walk
- you
- happy
- in
- to
- a
- my
- your
- orange
- red
- blue
- purple
- green
- swim
- bike
- Use your imagination and make sure you draw some punctuation marks on some pebbles as well (comma, exclamation point, period, question mark etc.)
- Once the pebbles are painted, let them dry and seal them with hairspray or spray varnish.
- Put all the pebbles into a show box or Jiffy Pop container. You can decorate your container with paint or markers as well.
- Play a game of poetry pebbles. Each player chooses a number of pebbles from the box and tries to come up with a poem or story.
- Makes for a great way to begin a short story for those times when you have writers block!
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