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Easy

Pick any idiom on the website.  Find out what it means.  The following idioms are defined on this website.  If you pick another idiom that is not defined on the website, you will have to find out its meaning yourself.  You could do that with an Internet search, or just ask someone who might know.  Make up your own sentence that uses that idiom.  If you want to be really clever, use that sentence when it is appropriate to what is going on.  For example the idiom ticked off means you are mad.  Next time you are mad at someone you could say, "I'm really ticked off with you." 

Read one of the stories or paragraphs and once you remember what you have read, just re-tell the story using only your words (without looking at the story again.)   

Pick any idiom listed on the website by using the index.  Draw a picture of that idiom.  Do not worry about what it means.  Just draw what it says.  You can do this on paper, (make it 8 and 1/2 inches square - that's ordinary letter paper squared off) or you can use any paint program that you know how to use.   Cut this picture or print this picture out.  Make a label and glue it on construction paper.  Give it to someone (teacher/parent older friend).  Ask them to explain what it really means and how to use it in a sentence. 

Medium

Go to this page which has five idioms alread linked.  Write a story around the idioms.  Send it in to the website to be published.

Read one of the stories on this website.  Copy one of the paragraphs by copying the text and pasting it into another document.  Remove all of the idioms and replace the idioms with words or phrases so that they still make sense. 

Go to the page that has idioms that are explained. Select and copy as many idioms as you want to and paste them into another document.  Write a story/paragraph/sentence that uses these idioms without retyping any of the pasted text.  You now have a document that will link to all the definitions.  You can use this document on your machine or you can publish it yourself.  (Hard) see an example of this

Hard:

Read one of the stories on this website.  Copy one of the paragraphs by copying the text and pasting it into another document.  Remove all of the TEXT  and LEAVE THE IDIOMS.  Write an entirely new story or paragraph with these idioms.  You may want to change the order of the idioms.   

If you have drawn an idiom you can add it to this website.  If you select ones that are not linked in blue you can add to this website with your drawings. 

If you have written  a story publish it.  If you publish it you should let this site know about it by sending an e-mail.  Idiomsbykids.com   will then link back to your site.  

Challenge

Write your own story by selecting a series of idioms ahead of time.  Once you have selected your idioms, write a story that uses them.  Make certain that your story makes sense.  This  means that you need to understand the idioms before you write the story.  You can select idioms from the list on this website and find out meanings using the Internet. 

Go to famous quotations about luck.  Explain them in simple words and or insert an idiom that is all about luck.

Go to famous Irish quotations and try to explain them in simple words. 

Write a story that uses famous Irish quotations or famous quotations about luck. 

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