The Wizard of Oz Story Sack

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Craft Suggestions:

Include supplies to make one or more of these crafts.

• Make your own ruby slippers by using rec fabric paint on canvas tennis shoes (you can also glue on red sequins).
• Try making this miniature scarecrow.
• Make a model of Dorothy's house using a milk carton!
• Pretend you are Toto by making and wearing this dog ear headband.
• Make a witch hat complete with green hair!
• Make a rainbow.
• Make a good witch crown using posterboard or construction paper and a wand using paper towel rolls and foil! You can also make home made bubbles to blow.
• Make a lion mask.
• Make cardboard roll puppets of the main characters and put on a puppet show!
• Try these Wizard of Oz crafts.
• Model the characters from the Wizard of Oz using clay!
• Print out one of these horse pictures and make a 'horse of a different color'.
• Include some of these Wizard of Oz coloring pages.
• Make some Wizard of Oz dolls.

Additional Story Sack Items:

Include one or more of these related items in the sack.

• Include some fun facts about the Wizard of Oz.
• Print out this tornado safety crossword puzzle.
• Print out this Wizard of Oz maze.
• Include a map of Kansas. Try to find where Dorothy lived.
• Here are a few suggestions for some related books to include:
  
  1. The Wiz
  2. The Wizard of Oz Coloring Book
  3. Cut and Make Wizard of Oz Masks
  4. Wizard of Oz Sticker Books
  5. Tornado
• Include a cassette tape of related songs and stories.
• Watch The Wizard of Oz Movie.
• Use yellow construction paper to build your own yellow brick road.
• Include some Wizard of Oz memorabilia.
• Include paper and markers or crayons to write or draw a related story.

Other Suggestions:

Suggestions for more related activities.

• Create your own tornado.
• Read The Wizard of Oz online.
• Play some Wizard of Oz related games and puzzles.
• Make lime jello jigglers, cut them into small squares, and then try to build an emerald palace out of them!