Room on the Broom Day

Event Pack
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Room on the Broom is an imaginative and surprising story featuring adventure and magic, flight
and friendship, dragons and monsters as well as a slightly bumbling witch and her motley crew
of brave companions who all find ‘room on the broom’.

To celebrate this perennial favourite by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, we’ve put together
a kit that has everything you need to host a truly magnificent event in your bookshop, classroom
or library for Halloween, or all year round!

Your pack includes the following:

• Event tips and ideas • Sticker sheets • Photocopiable activities

• Poster • Event invitation

Room on the Broom © Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler 2001 - Macmillan Children’s Books
• Cardboard witch • Balloons

Event Tips
Two to Three Weeks Ahead:
• Pick a date and time for your event.
• Make copies of the event invitation. You can keep a stack next to your register,
hang one in your window, and/or send them to those on your mailing list.
• Promote your event in your newsletter, website, or social media channels.
• Create a window display to promote your event.

One Week Ahead:

• Photocopy a supply of the activity and colouring sheets in
this pack for your event.
• Make arrangements to have plenty of pencils, crayons
and craft supplies available.

Event Day:
• Decorate your event space taking inspiration from the book.
• Be sure necessary materials are in place.
• Have plenty of copies of Room on the Broom available!
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Game Ideas
The Witch on the Broom Says
How to Play: One person plays the role of the Witch and he or she stands facing the rest of
the group who are the players. The Witch tells players what they must do. However, the players
must only obey commands that begin with the words ‘The Witch on the Broom says’. For
example, if the Witch says, ‘The Witch on the Broom says touch your nose,’ then players must
touch their nose. But if the Witch simply says, ‘Jump,’ without first saying ‘The Witch on the
Broom says,’ players must not jump. Those that do jump are out. The last player standing wins
and becomes the next Witch. For an extra bit of fun, get a broom for the Witch to hold or
‘ride’ during game play.

Room on the Broom © Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler 2001 - Macmillan Children’s Books
Pin the Wand on the Witch
How to Play: Find the ‘Make a Wand!’ activity in this event pack. Make as many copies as you
need and have everyone cut out their wand and colour it in. Hang your Room on the Broom
poster on a wall, roughly at eye level for the children. Place sticky tack or tape on the back
of everyone’s wand and have them line up in front of the poster. Blindfold the first child in
the queue and gently spin them around three times. Point the child toward the poster and ask
them to place the wand on the witch. Once every child has had a turn, the child with the wand
closest to the correct position wins.
Witch, Witch, Broom
How to Play: Select someone to be ‘It’ and have all the other
players sit in a circle. ‘It’ walks around the circle tapping each
player on the head saying ‘witch’ each time until he/she decides
to tap someone and say ‘broom.’ That person must run after
‘It’, trying to tag him/her before ‘It’ can run all the way around
the circle and sit in the gap left by the chaser . If the chaser tags
‘It’, then the chaser keeps their spot in the circle and ‘It’ must try
again. If ‘It’ is not tagged, then the chaser becomes the next ‘It’.
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