The Ice Bear by Jackie Morris: developing synonyms with KS2 children

In addition to the ideas for developing sentence level structures using 'The Ice Bear', this is also a great text for developing synonyms with children. 

In the story, the boy finds amber stones and follows the trail of these, collecting them for his mother.  Jackie Morris uses a variety of synonyms for these stones.

• a pale shard of shining light
• a piece of amber, smoothed by the oceans, coloured, clear and beautiful, ike a fragment of fire, washed ashore from a far-off place.
• a trail of shining amber
• bright jewels
• fallen stars
• each shining piece
• the brightest and the best
• the treasure
• the smooth beads of amber
• the amber treasure
• the amber

Find an object for children to describe in different ways.  How many different synonyms can they create?