Creating a name for your character can be fun. You can give your character a name that reflects their personality.
Read the names below. These are the children in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. What do you think each child is like? Use the box below for extra help.
Augustus Gloop
Charlie Bucket
Violet Beauregarde
Mike Teavee
Veruca Salt
1. Choose a title (optional). Doctor, Professor, Senator, Queen, Lord, Emperor
This gives a clue about how important your character is and how old they are.
2. Think of a first name.
You could pick a simple name, a long name or a nickname.
3. Choose or invent a surname.
Think of a name you already know or invent a new one!
Make up full names for these characters, using the steps above to help.
The people who work in the chocolate factory are Oompa-Loompas. They come from Loompaland. In our production we will all play an Oompa-Loompa - what's the name of YOUR Oompa-Loompa?
Not all characters are human. In Loompaland, the Oompa-Loompas had to live in treehouses to avoid being eaten by whangdoodles, hornswogglers and snozzwangers!
What other dangerous beasts might live in Loompalnd? Think of some dangerous beast names, we'll add your ideas here...
THE MOST DANGEROUS BEASTS IN LOOMPALAND!
