Celebrating Roald Dahl

My son loves Roald Dahl books and the exciting adventures of the imagination they spark.

As July in NZ is winter time, we decided to have a small, fun indoor celebration of Roald Dahl's books with (4 kids in total).

We had Roald Dahl book themed food, completed four Dahl book related activities and then chose the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as the Dahl film they wanted to watch.

All in all, a fun winter's day.

• What People Ate

  * Fantastic Mr Fox - cookies * BFG's Snozzcumbers - cucumber, mung beans and a cut out Sophie nestled inside. * James and the Giant Peach - peach * Matilda's Books - ham and cheese wraps with edible pen - Roald Dahl book titles. * Esio Trot - turtles, kiwifruit and grapes. * Willy Wonka's Chocolate Waterfall - with assorted fruit to dip. * Wonka's Everlasting Gobstoppers * Sophie's Phizzwizards (from the BFG) * Mrs Twit's Bird Pie * The Twit's Wormy Spaghetti - spaghetti

• What People Drank

  BFG's Frobscottle (Kiwifruit and apple juice)

• Activities / Games

  1. Mrs Twit gets the shrinks - modifying drinking straw walking sticks. 2. Making Violet Beauregarde - balloons 3. Making wormy spaghetti 4. Lickable wallpaper 5. Watching Roald Dahl Movie - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory original.