Write a description of Alice – how do you think she changes throughout the story?
Compose your own ‘Jabberwocky’-style poem and write it backwards!
Imagine you have found a looking-glass world of your own – draw all the interesting characters you would like to meet.
Design new outfits for Tweedledum and Tweedledee!
Learn how to play chess (if you don’t already know) and challenge your friends to a tournament.
Pick your favourite letter from the alphabet, bearing in mind all your responses must begin with this letter. Then:
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Choose a name
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Choose a place – can be a country, city, town or village
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Choose a type of food
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Choose a sport
Now, using those responses, write a short story including all those words!
Make your own Humpty Dumpty:
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Take a large egg.
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Make a tiny hole at the bottom of the eggshell using a needle, and drain the egg into an empty bowl. Be careful not to crack
the egg and have it splatter everywhere! Ask an adult to help you just in case.
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Now you can start the decorating. Remember to give it eyes, nose and a mouth to smile with!
Have a go at making a looking-glass-inspired plum cake. Remember to slice it and offer it to everyone just as Alice did. Once
again, ask an adult to help you with this easy recipe:
Plum Cake
Ingredients:
150g (⅔ cup) butter
150g (¾ cup) unrefined golden caster sugar
3 large eggs
75g (¾ cup) plain flour
1½ teaspoons baking powder
100g (1¼ cups) ground almonds
16 plums, stoned and quartered
- Set the oven at 180°C/355°F, gas mark 4.
- Grease and line the base of a square cake tin, about 6cm deep.
- Beat the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy, the colour of vanilla ice cream.
- Beat the eggs lightly with a fork and then add them bit by bit to the butter and sugar.
- Sift the flour and baking powder together and fold them gently into the mixture.
- Fold in the ground almonds.
- Scrape the mixture into the lined cake tin.
- Halve the plums, remove the stones and cut each half in two. Place the quartered plums on the cake mixture.
- Bake for 40–45 minutes, and then test to see if it is done by inserting a skewer. If it comes out clean, without any wet
cake mixture sticking to it, then the cake is ready.
- Remove the cake from the oven and leave to cool in the tin for 15 minutes before turning out on to a cake plate.