Twits & Tricks at The Roald Dahl Museum, Great Missenden

Activity Description

Join us every day during the half-term holiday for storytelling from The Twits and Revolting Rhymes.
Our expert storytellers will read extracts from the book with plenty of actions, noises and ways to get involved but we’ll need your help telling the story whilst the tricks get more and more swizzfingling!

Pick up your free trail activity sheet and explore the galleries this Halloween half-term.
Roald Dahl loved tricks, jokes and pranks! Explore the Museum to find disguises and hidden tricks from Roald Dahl’s life and his stories. Fill in the trail earn a special stamp.

Twit or Treat Trek
Collect your map and explore the high street to find the Twits’ 5 tricks hidden amongst various sites that inspired Roald Dahl’s books. Solve the riddle using these clues and return to the Museum to claim your free treat.

Be inspired by the mischievous story of The Twits and make your own creation out of clay as part of one of our workshops. (Ages 5+)
How many Roald Dahl stories can you think of where there’s a crodswoggling critter hiding? There are plenty waiting to make mischief! Find out about some of the terrible tricks that Mr and Mrs Twit play on each other, before designing and creating your own tricks pot out of clay.
Join us to make your own clay creature and a special place to hide it in. You’ll be ready to play your own trick!
Clay can be marvellously messy so make sure you wear clothes you don’t mind getting dirty. We’ll provide you with an apron to wear (and do all the cleaning up you lucky lot!). We recommend booking Museum entry and workshop spaces in advance as spaces are limited. Takes place from Monday 28 to Friday 1 November.

Take a guided tour around the village with our expert guide Michael. (Ages 5+)
He’ll show you some of the places that inspired the books, including Matilda’s library and Sophie’s orphanage from The BFG. While you wander, he’ll read extracts from the books featuring some fantastic – if slightly naughty – TRICKS. Find out about newts in water jugs, pheasants in prams and dead mice in sweet jars. Don’t try any of this at home, though — you have been warned! Takes place on Friday 1st November.