The sherbet lemon game

Last updated: 15/11/2023
Contributor: Richard Durant
Sherbet lemon descriptive writing game
Main Subject
Key stage
Category
Writing for purpose and audience: Creative writing
Resource type
Student activity

This is a fun way to teach aspects of descriptive writing that will cost you a bag of sherbet lemons or a couple of bars of chocolate. Perfect for an end of term lesson, but edible props are essential!

To encourage students to develop their descriptive writing skills, this slow writing activity helps them to focus on using their senses to create vivid, powerful and realistic descriptions.  

The resource includes detailed teaching ideas and extension activities. 

Example instructions from the classroom game: 

  1. Place a sherbet lemon in front of each student. They may not touch the sweet. They have to describe what they see as imaginatively as possible.
  2. The students may now pick up the sweets (in their non-writing hand). They have to describe the feel of the sweet as imaginatively as possible.
  3. Students now smell the sweet. They have to describe the smell of the sweet as imaginatively as possible.

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