Do you want to make reviewing idioms fun and engaging? Are your students creative and like pets? Then download this Idioms Activity a Figurative Language Project for Elementary Pet Lovers! Students will love creating their own pet adoption flyers. Well suited for the Language Arts or ELL classroom, your students will be having so much fun they will forget they are learning! This activity uses figurative language in a fun activity where students will plan a flyer for a pet adoption event at a local pet store. Using a list of 45+ animal idioms and a prewriting sheet, students will plan out which animals they will advertise, and which idioms they will use to describe the animals.

Then, students can select from five different “Pet Adoption Fair” flyers to use as their final draft. A grading rubric is included to assist with grading their final project. A shorter list of 18 animal idioms is included for younger students.

This is all you need for learning about idioms!

➟ This resource includes:

• Instructions
• 5 Pet Adoption Fair flyer templates
• Prewriting sheet
• Grading rubric
• Answer key (in the form of one example of a completed prewriting graph and an example of a finished flyer)
• Two lists of idioms using animals: 

(1) One shorter list for younger students (18 idioms) 

(2)A second full list of 45+ idioms for older students

• Terms of Use

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