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Where’s Wally? © 1987 – 2015 Martin Handford. Published by Walker Books Ltd, London SE11 5HJ. “Where’s Wally?” TM & © Classic Media Distribution Limited. All rights reserved.
Why not involve the whole school in the Around the World with
Wally competition by running a Where’s Wally? themed week?
Below are some activities and teaching ideas to engage your
pupils in a fun and interactive way. We’ve also provided a few
Wally resources for you to photocopy and use alongside these
ideas.
Where’s Wally? dash
Include a fun run in your next
sports day and get everyone to
dress up as Wally. Or make
the dressing up a part of the
race. Lay out trousers, stripy
tops, woolly hats and glasses
along the race course. The
winner is the first person to
cross the finish line dressed as
Wally!
See page 5 for details on
taking part in our annual
Where’s Wally? fun run!
Where’s Wally? hunt
Set up a Where’s Wally? hunt
by placing Wally cut-outs
around the school (or whatever
area you choose). Get the
children to start at different
times and record how long it
takes them, rewarding the
fastest individuals or teams
with a prize. You can create
clues based on Where’s
Wally? characters to make it
really interesting!
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Wally is great with trivia, so
include some general
knowledge questions.
Wenda draws or takes
pictures of objects.
Wizard Whitebeard loves
riddles or tongue twisters.
Woof is always helpful with
clues.
Odlaw tries to throw people
off by giving opposite clues
so watch out!
When the children have found
everything, they can all discuss
how the clues and objects fit
together, or create a new
scene.
Find your Where’s Wally?
Ask everyone to dress up as
Wally or any of the other
characters and create a
Where’s Wally? scene. You
can include any of the
characters that make up an
actual scene and give the
whole day a theme based on
the books. Take a photograph
and print as big a copy as you
can, then see if everyone can
spot themselves. You could
use the photograph as a prize
for the person who can find
characters the quickest!
Book stall
Set up a book stall at a
Where’s Wally? school fair.
Collect unwanted
books from staff,
children and their
families and sell
them. Any leftover
books may be of use
to the school library,
or you could donate them to
Better World Books who will
sell them and donate some of
the proceeds to the National
Literacy Trust. See
http://www.betterworldbooks.
co.uk for more information.
Words and letters in a crowd
Give each child a letter of a
word to hold and see who can
guess what word all the letters
make. Or see how many words
they can make out of all the
letters.
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find five or more words on a
page that they can’t read,
they might want to look for
another book or consider
reading it with some help.
Teach children how to
choose books that they’ll
love reading
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Have a class discussion
about why people like
reading,
what the
benefits of
reading are,
and ask
children to
think about
what their favourite books
are and why.
Talk about different types of
books. Try to get everyone
to mention their favourite
kinds and favourite authors.
Ask the children if they’ve
read any books they would
recommend to other
children.
Ask them if there’s a type of
book they have never read
before and would like to try.
Discuss ways that children
might choose a book e.g.: Is
it a topic they’re interested
in? Have they read any
other books by the author?
Do the blurb and first few
sentences seem
interesting?
Ask children to test whether
a book is suitable by getting
them to read a page. If they
You could also ask each group
of students to present an
outline of their story to the rest
of the class, explaining the
above points.
Create a character
Where’s Wally? time-trial
After reading one of the
Where’s Wally? books, the
worksheet on page 8 could be
used to help pupils produce a
profile of a character. They
could
choose an
existing
character
from the
book, or make up their own.
Divide the class into groups
and get them to hunt for Wally
together, as well as all the other
things in a scene. Rather than
talking, get them to write a
description of where everything
is. The winners are the team
who finish this first.
Once they have drawn their
characters, divide students into
small groups and get them to
discuss the characters that the
other people in their group have
drawn. Then ask them to
brainstorm ways in which the
characters could interact, and
finally, put together a plan for a
short story. Ask pupils to
consider the following points:
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Location: when and where
the story is set
Atmosphere and mood
What happens? Come up
with three main events
Outline a beginning, middle,
and end
What’s Where’s Wally?
doing?
Using a Where’s Wally? scene,
get your class to talk about the
various things that are going
on. Point out different
characters and ask them who
they might be, where they have
come from, and what they
might do next. You could then
write a story together about one
of the characters, or a small
section of the picture. Or use
one of the scenes from a
Where’s Wally? book to tie in
with classroom themes and
stimulate discussion about
Vikings, geography, space …
anything really! Pupils could
then write their own stories
based on the scene.
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Make a scene
Try creating a Where’s Wally?
scene on a wall
in school. Get
your students to
draw lots of
different
characters, including some of
the recognisable faces from the
Where’s Wally? books.
Pin them all up on one wall, but
make sure Wally is hard to find.
You could even run a small
competition for staff and pupils
to find him, using your school’s
reward scheme (if you have
one) as a prize.
Where’s Wally? wordsearch
copies of our Where’s Wally?
wordsearch on page 7. They
could work in teams to find all
the words. This could be paired
with a Where’s Wally? book, so
pupils first find the word, then
find the item in the Where’s
Wally? scene. You could give
them a small treat as a reward.
For a quick, end-of-the-day
exercise for your pupils, make
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Every year the National Literacy Trust holds the official
Where’s Wally? fun run to celebrate reading and raise
funds for the work of the charity. This year it’s being held
In Victoria Park, London, E3. Why not get a team together
and come along? The registration fee is £25 per person
and includes an official Where’s Wally? costume, with all
proceeds going to the National Literacy Trust. If you’re
thinking of getting a team of 10 or more together, then
contact anna.jones@literacytrust.org.uk for more
information. All are welcome, including children aged eight
and over (who must be accompanied by an adult). Visit
http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/support/fundraising_and_ev
ents/fun_run for registration and more information.
If you can’t make it to one of our fun runs, we still want you to join us across the country by doing
your own 5 or 10km run wherever you live! In the park, on a treadmill, or just a few times around
the block – it doesn’t matter as long as you dress up as a Where’s Wally? character, get out there
and tell us about it! We’re asking you all to tweet, post on Facebook and generally make a noise
about the Where’s Wally? runs in the UK.
Where’s Wally? step-by-step!
1. Distance: decide on 5 or 10km – and check out our training plans to help you to prepare.
2. The date: we’re encouraging people to hold their runs on 22 March 2015, but you can
choose an alternative date if you like.
3. Where: you can do your run in your local gym, in a park, in school grounds… anywhere
really! If you’re opening your run to the general public, then make sure you have all the
necessary insurance and health and safety requirements.
4. Ask friends to join you – running is always more fun in a group. Plus it means you can raise
even more money for the charity.
5. Text, email and ring friends, family and colleagues asking them to sponsor you. Download a
sponsorship form, or set up a page on justgiving.com – it’s really easy to set up and use.
We recommend you set yourself a target of about £100. It might sound like a lot, but you’d
be surprised how quickly it adds up. Read more fundraising tips.
6. Tell the world! Use Facebook and Twitter to promote your run in the lead up to it, and on
the day make sure you post a picture of yourself in your costume on our wall
at facebook.com/nationalliteracytrust, or tweet us at @literacy_trust using #wallyfunrun.
7. Order your official Where's Wally? costume
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact our Events Fundraiser Anna Jones
on anna.jones@literacytrust.org.uk or 020 7820 6254.
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What is your character’s name?
____________________________________
Which book is he/she/it from?
Book title:
_________________________
Author:
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Photocopy and cut out the character templates for use with different activities.
Where does your character live?
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How old is your character?
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What is your character’s occupation? E.g. student, superhero, wizard …
________________________________________________________________________
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Name three things that your character likes:
1. ______________________________________________________________________
2. ______________________________________________________________________
3. ______________________________________________________________________
Name three things that your character dislikes:
1. ______________________________________________________________________
2. ______________________________________________________________________
3. ______________________________________________________________________
What are your character’s strengths and weaknesses?
Strengths: _______________________________________________________________
Weaknesses:_______________________________________________________________
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Photocopy and cut out the character templates for use with different activities.
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Photocopy and cut out the character templates for use with different activities.
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Photocopy and cut out the item templates for use with different activities.
Where’s Wally? © 1987 – 2015 Martin Handford. Published by Walker Books Ltd, London SE11 5HJ. “Where’s
Wally?” TM & © Classic Media Distribution Limited. All rights reserved.