Create Crazy Captions
How you can help at home: This activity is fun for students of all reading levels and it builds writing skills, too. Adapt it to your child's ability.
Have your child write captions to go with photos she has picked out.
What You'll Need
- Family photos or photos from old magazines or catalogs
- Glue
- Small notebook, sheet of poster board or several sheets of plain paper plus construction paper
- Stapler
- Pencil, pen, colored pencils or markers
Here's How to Do It
Give your child some family photos, old magazines or catalogs to look through for photos. Let him glue several photos that interest him into a small notebook or onto a sheet of poster board or several sheets of plain paper.
Encourage your child to think of a descriptive, funny, or just plain crazy captions for each photo. Have your child write the caption below the photo (with help if needed). If you've used plain paper, assemble the pages into a booklet by adding a construction paper cover and stapling the pages together.
Excerpted from The Children's Busy Book by Trish Kuffner with permission of its publisher, Meadowbrook Press, © 2001.
