Encourage children to read with book clubs.
Book clubs make reading a social event and encourage non-readers to develop a passion for the printed page. By organizing a children's book club and selecting engaging book club activities, you promote reading among children and offer them an enjoyable way to mix and mingle with written text. Help your young readers blossom into proficient literary devotees through the building of a book club.
Theme Dinner
Celebrate the conclusion of a book by holding a theme dinner for your book club members. Ask each book club member to select a food that is in some way representative of the book that your group read. For example, if your group read S.E. Hinton's "The Outsiders," one member might elect to bring chocolate cake, a favorite breakfast treat for the Curtis brothers. Ask each group member to sign up with what he will bring to the event to ensure that there is no overlap. Decorate with book-relevant decorations, and dine on the tasty treats prepared by your club members as you discuss the book.
Book Club T-Shirt
Allow your book club members to show their allegiance to the scholastic activity by creating book club t-shirts. Near the end of your book club year, provide each member with a white t-shirt and decoration elements, such as puffy paint or fabric markers. Each group member can decorate her shirt to represent her favorite book read of the year, or with a general message about the book club. Ask all of your members to wear their shirts to the last meeting, and encourage book club members to sign each other's hand-made shirts using fabric or permanent marker.
Book- to-Movie Sleepover
Explore the adaptation of books to film by holding a book-to-movie sleepover. After reading a text that has been dramatized, set up a sleepover at the home of a book club member or your school. Pop some popcorn, grab some soda and screen the literature-based film for your book club members.
Book Collage
Reflect upon the contents of a book by completing an artistic project with your book club members. After finishing a text, provide book club members with print media such as magazines and newspapers. Ask your book club members to move through these provided resources and clip out images that are representative of themes or ideas from the text. After all group members have gathered an assortment of relevant images, hang a large sheet of poster board on the wall and allow them to glue their elements onto the poster board in an overlapping fashion to create a large book collage that represents the text in question.
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