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Activity - art project
By Julie

I am a first year teacher and havn't found the appropriate time to do this with my sixth graders but it is an activity that we learned in college.

It is a Character Kite
1. The actual Kite the students put their favorite
character OR the main character of the book. They can decorate the kite in their own creative style. A suggestion would be to draw a picture of what they think the character looks like or maybe do a collage of pictures of things associated with the character.
2. Punch a hole at the bottom tip of the kite so that you can tie string to it. (you may even suggest they use those stickers

that have a hole punched in them to make certain the hole doesn't get torn. Or use tape.)

3. After you get the string attached, they are going to make "flags" for their kite string. On each flag they are going to put facts about the character or things that happened to the character. You can assign as many "flags" as you want.

4. Tie the "flags" to the string. Again, you will punch a hole in each flag in order to attach the flags to the string.

5. Have them add any creative touches to the kite as they wish. Done.

this is sort of like a character map but it doesn't involve a writing assigment.
Hope this helps