The Caption Studio

Grown from Caption This Horse: why some jokes work, a comic strip and a calendar of your own.

Seven activities that turn one funny caption into real comedy writing. Children work out the patterns behind jokes, write ten captions and cut nine, practise timing, invent a character with a running joke, draw a four-panel strip, fill a calendar and then test the whole lot on real people. Every activity has a harder strand for anybody who wants the stretch.