Dear Friends, Here is your Martha Activity Kit. It contains everything you need to host your own Martha party: invitations, name tags, coloring sheets, a maze, word games, and more. Martha is quite a unique dog. It all started the day her owner, Helen, fed her alphabet soup. The letters went up to her brain instead of down to her stomach and Martha hasn’t stopped talking. Since that moment, Martha has been quite busy—foiling burglars, winning radio call-in contests, fighting corporate downsizing, and taming the neighborhood bully. Because each tale about this chattering mutt is filled with lots of laughs, we are sure that your Martha parties will be quite a success. In addition to being fun, the activities in this kit are useful in learning what is appropriate—and inappropriate— to say, teaching language skills such as spelling and reading, and in decoding context clues. We hope that you enjoy this activity kit!

WORD FINDFind the following words in the puzzle below.

Words can be found frontwards, backwards, diagonally, horizontally and vertically.

Word list: Martha, dog, alphabet, soup, pest, vowels, consonants,

blahblah, quiet, meat, Helen, talk, words, stay, sit, read, listen, fun, me

M B R E A D M S V

A L P H A B E T O

R A E D S T A N W

T H S O U P T A E

H B T G T E I N L

A L A A I I E O S

S A Y U L L S S ON H Q E E K H N C

U E M H S D R O W

F L I S T E N C A

MARTHA’S ALPHABET GAME

The first person to play chooses a letter. Then each person, in turn, has to name three things that

begin with that letter. Then the next person has to name three more, and so on and so on.

Players are eliminated when they cannot come up with 3 new words. The winner is the last to

successfully stump everyone else. Then play again with a new letter.

MARTHA’S WORD FUN

How many words can you make using the letters in

MARTHA THE TALKING DOG.

MARTHA’S FIRST LETTER GAME

Write the beginning letter of each picture to find the answer to the riddle.

What is Martha’s favorite pastime?

UPTPALBAHESO

DIFNER

SLKTA

TUMT

MARTHA’S WORD JUMBLEUnscramble the words below and then rearrange the letters

from the circles to answer the riddle.

Who is the world famoustalking dog?

MARTHA’S VERB GAMEMartha loves verbs. Verbs are action words that bring

sentences to life. Can you fill Martha’s favorite verbs into the following sentences?

1. Martha __________ very high.

2. Martha ____________ when she is fed alphabet soup.

3. Martha _____________ friends on the phone.

4. Martha ______________ funny things.

5. Martha ______________

her family.

falls, runs, jumps

speaks, follows, sits

rolls over, leads, calls

says, laughs, eats

barks, runs, loves

Martha loves to speak. Read the funny things

she has to say, then color the sheet.

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Martha is just not feeling like herself. . .Connect the dots from A-Z then 1-67.

Did you ever wonder what a dog would say if she could?

Maybe she would say too much. Read and color Martha and the family.

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Can you make it to

the center of

Martha’s letter

maze? There are

only a couple of

rules: you must

move from A to Z

consecutively

and cross over each

letter on the way to

the center.

Z

I’m a Martha fan

I’m a Martha fan

I’m a Martha fan

I’m a Martha fan

I’m a Martha fan

I’m a Martha fan

I’m a Martha fan

I’m a Martha fan

I’m a Martha fan

I’m aMartha fan

I’m aMartha fan

I’m aMartha fan

We’r

ehavin

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aparty!

Canyou

make

it?

Date: ______________________Time: _____________________Location: _____________________________________________________________

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