Silly Sally
Make puppets of characters in the story. Use for retelling the story and sequencing or for demonstrating adverbs of place. You and/or the youngsters can draw and color your own puppets or on the author's website there are full size coloring pages for Silly Sally, Neddy Buttercup, wallowing pig, silly dog and sleepy sheep. (Don’t forget the loon.) Storybook Patterns have a free complete set of characters from the story as well as a town background (these would be good for flannelboard pieces).
Make up Silly Sally sentences: Silly Sally saw a serpent singing in the sunshine. Use your own name and make a sentence using words that start with the same sound. Pretty Patty paid a penny for a pecan pancake. Daffy Dylan dug a deep ditch. This activity could be used as a pocket chart activity for sorting adjectives, verbs, and nouns.
Create life-sized silly versions of yourselves, walking upside down. Trace an outline of each child onto large white butcher paper, with their hands reached above their heads. Then have each decorate his or her own Silly Self. Encourage imaginative decoration with a variety of media and odd items available from the scrap box.
Think of other silly ways Sally could go to town: hopping backwards, skipping backwards, sliding sideways, crawling crookedly, etc. Get moving and demonstrate!
Think of other words that mean about the same as silly. Name a character using one of these adjectives with a name that starts with the same sound. Think of a silly activity for your character.
Some we used include: batty, cracked, crazy, daffy, daft, dippy, dizzy, flaky, foolish, freaky, goofy, kooky, loony, muddleheaded, nutty, ridiculous, screwy, wacky.
Ridiculous Ralph eats nothing but radishes and raisin pie.
Dippy Debby doodles ducks all day.
