activities for Double Trouble

There are many activities that you can do with the book Double Trouble because the text is so basic you can change the story through the illustrations in numerous ways.

One thing you can do is have the children totally change the characters of the story. The text of the story never says that the characters are raccoons; you only know this by looking at the pictures. So the students can change the characters to anything they want to, humans, pigs, mice, cows, dogs, cats, lions, bears, the possibilities are endless.

They can also change the events by changing the pictures. The text is not very detailed, so the children can change the story by changing the pictures. For example, there is one page where the text says: Tim and Jim act alike. The illustration shows the two raccoons swinging on swings hanging off of a tree. They could change the illustration by making the two characters play basketball or be ice skating.