Fancy Nancy Tea Party

Ages 4-9: Fancy Nancy Tea Party: Oh-la-la! Dress in your fancy clothes and join us for a tea party starring the exquisite Mademoiselle “Fancy Nancy.” 

Note, we will be making and serving refreshments
so please alert us to any food allergy issues.

As kids were arriving, asked them for “fancy” words – wrote them on white board

Read:  Fancy Nancy: Bonjour Butterfly – added and define more fancy words on the white board.

Stations:
· Make fancy placemats 11x14 paper (kids cut out butterfly shape, then decorate with sequins & markers – encouraged them to make their name “fancy” and write some of the fancy words from the white board)*

· Make napkin rings – Stack 5 4x4 inch tissue papers.  Fan-fold tissue paper pile, fasten with pipe cleaner, pull up each petal to make flowers (tissue paper, pipe cleaners), then loop the pipe cleaner to make the napkin ring. http://www.nickjr.com/crafts/tissue-paper-flowers.jhtml To fold the napkin: Fan fold a guest quality paper napkin (it is fancier if you start from a point rather than a flat side), then slip the folded napkin inside the napkin ring and fan it out. (Napkin rings can become wrist corsages for the parade.)

· Decorate die cut crowns or hats with feathers and sequins.

· Optional: make wands/wings - Crepe paper streamers wands – omitted, no time

· Make tea sandwiches – Materials: hand wipes, white bread, cream cheese, jam (squeeze containers easiest), wax paper, rolling pins, plastic knives, paper plates – had kids clean hands, then cut crusts off bread, put slice between two pieces of waxed paper & flatten with rolling pin, spread with cream cheese & jam, roll up then cut into pinwheels and put on paper plate*   Optional, could have also made triangle sandwiches with bread, cream cheese & thinly-sliced cucumbers.

· Optional: Make fruit kabobs --   fancy toothpicks, grapes, blue berries pink lemonade for refreshments*

Music: Anything classical or something like Bibbidi Bobbidi Bach: More Favorite Disney Tunes in the Style of Classical Composers.

· When crafts were done, each child had a placemat, crown, napkin ring, napkin and pinwheel sandwiches.
 We removed the craft supplies and served pink lemonade with strawberries & blueberries for garnish (“fancy”) and tea cookies.

· After our “tea,” gave away “Fancy Nancy” paper fans as party favors (had these left over from another program, don’t know the original source.) -- would have made wands if I didn't have these.

· Finished with a Fancy Nancy follow the leader parade* around the library.

“Au Revoir” – till we meet again!
 
*Ideas from Fancy Nancy Tea Parties by Jane O’Connor
6/2014 BWL

Picture This: Poetry & Art for National Poetry Month

Picture This: Poetry & Art -- National Poetry Month

Kindergarten through 5^th grade.
 

What do you get when you cross…

A toaster with a toad? A snail with a horse? A giraffe with a tarantula? and An umbrella with an elephant?

You get a pop-up Toadster, a Snorse, a Girantula, and The Bold UmbrellaPhant!

“Join us as we read some outrageous poems by Jack Prelutsky and Keith DuQuette, then create our own mixed-up menagerie in words and pictures!”

· Read selections from Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant (J811.54 PREL) & Cock-a-doodle Moooo! : a Mixed-Up Menagerie (Picture Book DuQuette)

· Display office materials (staplers etc.) & books with animal pictures for inspiration.

· Make mixed-up animal collages (Materials: 11x17” paper, collage materials (office ads, magazine pages, construction paper scraps, etc.), scissors, glue sticks

· Have extra volunteers on hand to help kids write poems, if desired.

4.07

Picture This: Imaginary Menagerie (or Creature Feature) K-5

Join us as we celebrate National Poetry Month with some outrageous poems about imaginary creatures then make some creations of our own using origami, paper collage, and other techniques.

• Open with squiggle pictures (“squiggles” on white boards & paper for kids to turn into imaginary creatures.

Read mixed-up poems from Animals that Ought to Be J811.54 MIC, Imaginary Menagerie J811.54 LARIOS,  Doodle Dandies J811.54 LEWIS, Fold Me a Poem J811.54  GEORGE, Good Mousekeeping J811.54 LEWIS, Cock a Doodle Moo DUQUETTE Mr. Putney’s Quacking Dog - AGEE

Stations: 

Origami –  photocopied a few pages from Beginner's origami : birds, beasts, bugs, & butterflies J745.54 BIDDLE, torn-paper collage, cut paper animals, 3D paper folding, squiggle pictures  (Supplies: construction paper, paper scraps, scissors, glue, origami paper, markers)  

Other resources – didn’t use, but  these would tie this into artist presentation:  Imagine That!  Activities and Adventures in Surrealism (J709.04 RAI) pages 26-33 “Creature Feature Miro” – Collograph creatures (litho printing) ,  pages 34-39  “The Wild Imagination of  Max Ernst” p. 20 Unusual people, 22 Amazing Art Game

4.09

School Age Storytime: What's In A Name?

What's in a Name?

School Age Storytime (K-4th)

Concepts include world languages, vocabulary development,

immigration, aging, empathy, classic stories & imagination

Book: Matthew A.B.C. -- Peter Catalanotto (class chock full of Matthews introduces interesting vocabulary e.g. "affectionate," "incognito," and "perpetually perplexed!")

 

B.I.N.G.O. (clapping song – letter identification and listening skills)

Polled group "Who speaks another language at home?"

Book: My Name is Yoon -- Helen Recorvits (Korean girl moving to America adapting to new school & language)

Guessing Game Book: Mr. Putney's Quacking Dog  -- Jon Agee (children guess the composite names formed by mixing an animal with an object e.g. "alarmadillo" -- used a few of these puzzles between each book read -- great for imagination and vocabulary development)

Classic Folk Tale Book: Tikki Tikki Tembo -- Arlene Mosel (children loved chantable portion -- listening skills, music)- unavailable 2018 used Horace & Morris & Mostly Dolores - James Howe with first graders instead.

 

Song: John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt (classic folk song -- clapping rhythm reduction -- each time through clap an additional line in rhythm instead of saying the words -- building listening skills)

 

"someone else with 4 names:"

Book: Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge - Mem Fox (A small boy discovers the meaning of memory to help an elderly friend who is losing hers -- gorgeous book on aging and empathy.)

 

(1st grade – 2018) My Name is Sangoel -- Karen Lynn Williams (Refugee boy from Sudan comes up with a clever way to help his classmates remember his unusual name) (Both books on the immigrant experience help build empathy in American-born children.)

 

Activity suggestion – have kids make their own picture puzzles from their names – as was done in Mr. Putney’s Quacking Dog & My Name is Sangoel – a great way to learn and remember each other’s names.

 

Additional book possibilities:
Chrysanthemum - Kevin Henkes, , Cleversticks - Bernard Ashley,  story "Too Many Daves" from The Sneetches -- Dr. Seuss, Silly Sally - Wood, Neville -- Norton Juster, There Once Was a Man Named Michael Finnegan -- Mary Ann Hoberman (singable), Spork -- Kyo Maclear, A  Porcupine Named Fluffy -- Helen Lester, Waggle --Sarah McMenemy, A is for Musk Oxen -- Erin Cabatingan

 

Rumpelstiltskin - Paul Zelinsky (booktalk: Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter - Diane Stanley -- Common Core: comparing versions of a story) – 2018 – will save for another program,

 

Flannel song possibilities: BINGO, Aikendrum -- Raffi

Additional music: "The Name Game" from A Child's Celebration of Rock & Roll.

Bedm. 9/2013, 9/2018