Write original Island Adventures with detailed characters, setting, and plot, then construct an island environment using a paper bowl and Crayola® Markers.
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Read The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and identify the characters, setting, and plot. Write your own, original Island Adventure. Describe the setting and people in your narrative.
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Recreate the environment to show where your story takes place. Use Crayola Markers to design waves and rocky or sandy beaches on construction paper.
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Turn a paper bowl upside down to make an island. Color the land with markers. Glue your island to the water and beach with Crayola School Glue.
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If your setting is tropical, for example, tear pieces of colorful tissue paper. Crumple and glue it around the island for foliage. Find other creative ways to depict icy or volcanic island settings.
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Use cardboard tubes to create a cave, or, if a tree house appears in your story, to create a tree trunk. Design the tree house-perhaps with doors, window, vines, escape hatches, and balconies. Create details with markers and glued-on pieces of constructio
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To make a palm tree, accordion fold green construction paper. Use Crayola Scissors to cut a long leaf. Unfold and glue leaves to the inside of the top of the cardboard tube. Dry. Carefully spread leaves apart.
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