Roald Dahl loved creating imaginative and made-up words, as evidenced by the nonsense food and creature names invented in his books, such as the snozzcumber from The BFG and Wonka's Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight. Students were tasked with making up their own unusual names and descriptions of things, resulting in creative nonsense words like the whirlastick hypnotizing stick, sniggering snotscreamer goblin "ice cream," and Uncle Joey's Uberdooperskiar snow vehicle with pie and frog gunger.

1. Word play
Roald Dahl loved to play with words in imaginative ways,
even making up some of his own!
• Remember the vegetable from The BFG called the
snozzcumber?
• Wonka’s Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow
Delight!
• The Wangdoodles and Hornswogglers the Oompa Loompas
have escaped from?

2. Word play
Look at your image card.
1. Make up an unusual name for thing in the
image.
2. Tell us about it e.g. What does it do?

3. A Whirlastick
Created by Bethany Steer
The whirlastick is used to
hypnotise people. The
circle spins at high speed,
hypnotising anyone who
sees it. The only person
safe is the one holding the
stick. If they touch the
circle they are also
hypnotised.

4. Sniggering Snotscreamer
Created by Millie Nelson
This “food” is used by
goblins to create mischief
and mayhem among the
greedy. Lured by the ice-
creamy deliciousness, they will
soon fall victim to the goblins’
idea of fun as they discover
that the “ice-cream” is in fact
curdled milk and the “apple
sauce” covering it is goblin
mucas mixed with green
chillies.

5. The Nightmerktar
Created by Elizabeth Percy
The Nightmerktar holds
darkness. Blowing in
different holes creates
different kinds of
darkness. This can be
used as a weapon or for
protection.

6. Elizzy Whizzy Potion
Created by Thomas Knight
A mix of youth elisiur and a
dash of whizz potion
This mad potion makes you
lose your promotion.
It gives you your youth, tiny
and small,
Yet makes you want to dash
down the hall.
It makes you so young but
makes you dash,
Going so fast lets hope you
don’t crash!

7. A “Tinyum Veta”
Created by Josh Harm
A “Tingum Veta” is a
fisherman which brings
terror to the island of
Habeio in the world of
Skyrim. The “Tingum
Veta” eats the cattle of
Farmer Bob. It has 105
pointy teeth and sharp
claws. It is 8 feet long and
can see in the dark.

8. Uncle Joey’s Uberdooperskiar
Created by Jacob Taylor
The Uberdooperskiar
helps you ride through
snow easily but also has
extra portions of Auntie
Linda’s famous Lemon
Meringue Pie. But also
has the yellow-belly frog
gunger in the back for
fending off pigsquigglen.

9. A Silver Point Shoot
Created by Rhianna Steer
A Silver-Point-Shoot is a
weapon! It is used to kill
birds. It shoots bullets
from it’s spikes at a pace
of 100 bullets per minute.
It comes in silver. For
peace loving people it can
be used to eat chips.