How to Eat Fried Worms

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See how to make this classroom friendly treat below.

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Writing

Lesson 1 Paragraph Structure

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PowerPoint for Writing an Informational Paragraph

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Activities

Worm Craft

Students enjoy creating crafts from kits purchased through Oriental Trading Company. The kits are super easy for teachers. They usually come in sets of 12 with each set packaged in small packets with all the parts needed to assemble one craft. While reading How to Eat Fried Worms, students made this worm craft using one of the kits. These cute worms were created with pipe cleaners, pom-poms, and wiggly eyes.

Dirt Cups

Dirt cups is always a favorite treat. These couldn't be simplier. They were created from the premade chocolate pudding. Students just had to add cookie crumbles and gummy worms. What a fun treat!

Worm Tasting

Billy eats worms with all sorts of condiments. We sliced hot dogs lengthwise to look like worms. After cooking them in the microwave, they look like the real thing. Students sampled the worms with different condiments. We created a bar graph of the class favorites.

Cute Display for Worm Writing

This idea is really easy and requires almost no planning. Students cut apple, stem, and leaf shapes from red, brown, and green construction paper.These were done free-hand so all the apples were a little different.

Students wrote paragraphs summarizing sections of the novel. The rough drafts were proofread and then rewritten on wide-lined paper. These were then glued onto the center of the construction paper apple shape.

To decorate the apple, the leaves and stem were glued onto the apple. Students created worms by gluing pom-poms in a line beginning with 2 large, then 2 middle-sized, and ending with 2 small pom-poms. Wiggle eyes completed the worm. These made a cute classroom display.