Greeting Card - Make an Holiday card for grandparents or elderly citizens. Memory Collage - Assemble a collection of magazine pictures that might remind older people of memories they've forgotten, like Wilfrid McDonald did. Give to a nursing home. Add a cut out head, arms and legs to the cover and sandwich the previously done book review. Hang these colorful book covers in the library for other students to read.
Next students can write a brief summary on an index card and paste to the inside of the jacket.
Recipe - Find out a secret family recipe and make a class cookbook. Select a few recipes for the class to prepare and try. Have a taste test and contest. Write the recipe on a large visual piece of butcher paper for all to see. On the board have the class discuss what materials and ingredients will be needed to start making the latkes.