Two large artificial plants in the lobby served as a quiet reading area with chairs. A contest was held to name the plants. Students designed paper socks to post on their lockers. Each class chose a best sock to be placed on vines in the office window. Crazy socks day, wearing mismatched or funny ones.
Kids also come up with funny ways to wear regular socks.
Poe's idea of hiding something in plain sight can prompt some good classroom or library puzzlers. In the book, the school has a teleconference with an astronaut while he is up in space. These are actually the ones in the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Children in northern Ohio will recognize this as the one at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, although other such places have similar things to see. Choose a category - plants that produce food or live in the rainforest or wetlands, or everyday house or garden plants, or trees, or the world's weirdest plants.