Seven year-old James is forced to live with his cruel Aunts Sponge and Spiker after his parents are eaten by a rhinoceros. A mysterious old man appear in the garden and gives James a bag filled with magical crystals, a gift that will change his life forever as he embarks on a fantastic journey involving a gigantic peach and some unusual new friends.
We have been working on a couple of fun projects related to the book. Yesterday, Hayley created her own character who might benefit from the old man's gift of magic crystals. A good lesson in creative writing, she wrote a biography of a young girl who ran away from her cruel mother, choosing to live alone in the mountains with her cat as her only company. She then drew a picture of the old man and the girl. When this was done, we added the magic green crystals.
After scooping a small bit of rice into a plastic container, she added a drop of green food coloring and shook it well.
Voila! Magical green crystals. She applied them with glue to her story and left them to dry.
In her story, the girl could use the magic crystals to return home without her mother seeing her. Ah, the gift of invisibility!
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