tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45474563638494849262024-03-12T22:33:21.241-07:00The Mixed-Up Files of Miss KatKathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11629007214993819871noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547456363849484926.post-79594088603212635012018-10-24T16:08:00.000-07:002018-10-24T16:08:33.883-07:00Folded Paper Christmas Trees<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE3pSKqVJDB4BdVynNtEW7OMrr-A-T0mlkgr6yQ3bzmt4rjX7_wywG8QzcBs8uEXXLpj0uqywmtvOUNwMIWJ1yHG7_vm7iwOsb-3h9xMWwUU1Tj_oM5bFByZZnJfIu7Zgb5g7tznUFLwk/s1600/TreesHeader.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE3pSKqVJDB4BdVynNtEW7OMrr-A-T0mlkgr6yQ3bzmt4rjX7_wywG8QzcBs8uEXXLpj0uqywmtvOUNwMIWJ1yHG7_vm7iwOsb-3h9xMWwUU1Tj_oM5bFByZZnJfIu7Zgb5g7tznUFLwk/s320/TreesHeader.JPG" width="257" /></a>I love these little trees so much. They're not super hard to make, once you get the hang of it, and the decorating part is exceptionally fun. I even made one for the library's pet fish, Dewey, so he could have a festive holiday season.<br />
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1. Make sure your paper is cut into squares. They don't have to be perfect, but a rectangle won't work for this. </div>
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2. Choose which side of the paper is the outside. Fold your square in half, and then in half again, with the outside showing. You will now have 4 smaller squares.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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3. Unfold your paper and fold it in half diagonally, just once.</div>
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4. Unfold your paper and flip it upside down. Fold the other diagonal, so that it's facing away from all the other folds you made (with the inside of the paper showing). </div>
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5. Unfold your paper. The fold you made in the opposite direction will want to push into the center - let it! Your paper should flatten into a square with the sides pushed in, as in the photo. </div>
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6. Lay your paper flat on the table, looking like a diamond with the open end toward you. Then, take one of the corners and bring it into the middle, so what was the top edge is now on the center line.</div>
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7. Repeat with the other side.</div>
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8. Flip over and repeat with both the other corners.</div>
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9. <b>THIS IS THE HARD PART.</b> Unfold one of your new folds and make it into a little pouch. Take the folded edge there, and press it into the center line. This is called "inverting the fold," and it's the most difficult part to explain to someone. Instead of one large flap, you will have two smaller ones after this step. </div>
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<br />10. Repeat with the other three folds. You should now have 8 flaps. (When pre-folding the trees, this is the spot where I generally stop to let the kids finish the project.)</div>
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11. Cut the short part of the kite off. Now you'll have a tall triangle.</div>
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12. You'll see in the photo here that I've made 3 short lines parallel to the bottom of the triangle. Cut along these lines, <b>being sure not to go all the way to the center of the tree</b>. (You don't have to draw the lines, but I found it helpful for the kids to see what I was doing.</div>
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13. On the right side <i>only</i>, from each cut mark, fold the paper down into a little triangle. This makes the points on the tree branches. Flip the "page" over to the right, and fold down the cut marks for all pages.</div>
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14. When you get to the last page, turn the entire tree over and fold these sides down on the right, as well. By doing it this way, the entire tree has folds only on one side of the branches, and looks nicely symmetrical. </div>
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15. Now your tree is complete! It's the perfect time to pull out the decorations and spangle it up with sequins, glitter, a star for the top, maybe some presents for the base. Enjoy! </div>
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Repeat until you have an entire forest.</div>
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I hope this tutorial makes sense to you; please let me know if it doesn't, and I will try to clarify. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I love this craft. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">These pocket-sized notebooks that are so cute, I can't stand it! They're also incredibly easy to make, which I will show you step-by-step, with glamorous photos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First of all, did you know that paint chips look like this these days? At all the hardware stores I visited, the paint chips were short and wide, rather than long and skinny. If yours are different, you will need to measure your own pages, but I've done all the hard work for you, if you happen to have paint chips that look like these. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In addition to your paint chips, you need: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Using your ruler again, measure from the corner of the long side of the paint chip. (Note: measure from the corner, not from the curvy part of the end.) Starting at the bottom end, measure out:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Measure from both sides, and draw the lines in with pen. This makes nice, sharp creases, which you want to fold along, thus making a cute little packet. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Once you fold along the creases, it makes a box with open sides, much like a gum packet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now: Have a stack of your little pages ready to go. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">See the pocket made by the end fold of the paint chip in the photo here? Put a stripe of hot glue all the way across the cardboard, and then place your pages in. Fold the end flap over, and hold it for a few seconds. It should hold in this position. If it doesn't, add a bit more glue - you want the end flap to stay bent over like this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Why? Well! Because now you can tuck the other end underneath the flap, and it will hold itself closed like a matchbook. Isn't it gorgeous?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Please note that the adorable flap has a tiny little bear on it (because the brand is Behr), and the writing of the paint color are facing the right side up. That's because we carefully measured from the *bottom* of the paint chip. Well done, us!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And that's it! You're done! Do you love it so much?! I DO!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Did you ever, as a kid, crayon over a paper in bright colors, and then in black? And then, with a pencil or a toothpick, scratch through the black to the colors beneath, to make some very cool art?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Or, perhaps you've just bought the pre-made scratch-off bookmarks or other shapes that they sell through Oriental Trading and other such websites?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Either way. Scratch art is very cool! And it's also super easy to make old CDs into brand new artwork. All you need is:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Using acrylic paint, completely cover the shiny side of an old CD or DVD disc. It's totally your call what color you use, but I really like the way that the black makes the shiny silver stand out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are a couple ways to do this that I've seen, involving puffy paints pr colored glue to make the lines of "stained glass," but I'm doing this with kids, so I'm going for the easiest method: markers.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikOFmgFEdOa1_XaARW2pj6eZbYYI4UyP8-7KaoKlUpWc4bid75mpxcMixjGyesEIA3LJvekHR_bHeuN2Bo4_3mKNUcWh6YfIyk-vqD-C7y7-Eg217zPAmvR-5eap6xoh-fznkDRKvTKzg/s1600/IMG_3700.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikOFmgFEdOa1_XaARW2pj6eZbYYI4UyP8-7KaoKlUpWc4bid75mpxcMixjGyesEIA3LJvekHR_bHeuN2Bo4_3mKNUcWh6YfIyk-vqD-C7y7-Eg217zPAmvR-5eap6xoh-fznkDRKvTKzg/s320/IMG_3700.JPG" width="240" /></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I read a few sets of instructions online that weren't totally clear on this part, so I'm going to spell it out in very clear steps. Put your CD down and scratch the <b>top</b> of it with something somewhat sharp - I used the edge of my scissors - to make a little scratch in the silver. You might even see it start to flake away. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">See that little scratch there? Now, put a piece of tape over it - regular old Scotch tape will work, but you'll need quite a bit of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now, pull off the tape. A big chunk of lovely silver CD should peel off with the tape. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Excellent. Now we've got it started.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now, cover the rest of the CD (again, top side) with more tape. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I will add to the blog as new ideas are planned and tested. Please check back soon to see what else I've got planned!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I remember seeing this craft a while back, and loving it, and then not doing anything with it and forgetting all about it, but then - and I don't even know why - it popped into my head the other day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A quick Google turned up <a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-a-mini-easel-with-wooden-pin-clothes/">this amazing Instructable</a>, but since I can't always watch videos at work, and since I like to take photos as I do stuff so that I remember how I did it, and since why the heck not, I decided to take photos of the process and post it on here.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1 small dowel - a toothpick will work in a pinch</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Plug in your hot glue gun to preheat. The rest of this goes pretty fast. Now, take apart 2 of your clothespins. This is easily doable by twisting the top part away from the bottom part. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Take one of the half-pins and apply glue to the edge that was the bottom inside when it was a whole pin (see photo). Glue to the bottom inside of one of the whole pins. Repeat twice more, since you need three of these. I made sure to make all 3 of mine facing the same direction, but I really don't think it makes much of a difference. You should now have three identical pins with glued-on legs, one complete and untouched pin, and a small dowel.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV7gI2xeIfWnTI0HTiZeSXn6kl0S7w6lLEw5cJYTYhvTDo8z0tu5FvvVaLW_Kaux6-8ERrdBOPmTERdAQtT37bI1Zi3HjpMlsaOhudRp4hHcXdqB_kj4q52nJTTRul40RaDK-wHLfZ7c0/s1600/Easel2.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV7gI2xeIfWnTI0HTiZeSXn6kl0S7w6lLEw5cJYTYhvTDo8z0tu5FvvVaLW_Kaux6-8ERrdBOPmTERdAQtT37bI1Zi3HjpMlsaOhudRp4hHcXdqB_kj4q52nJTTRul40RaDK-wHLfZ7c0/s320/Easel2.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Thread the dowel through the top holes of three clothes pins. I turned the middle one upside down here, so they were all facing in the same general direction. NOTE: This looks much nicer when it's done if your front legs (the outside two) have the extended side of the pins on the table, and the unglued side on top.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg96Mb-XnadP0qvOAf1YZX0_elxCK6UA7ZAhJs6VwQZCz0ncJ1ADwoLwWm9zq88Qj-GL-tFtwx7ggSmnvP3WZFlcpE_n8eMrZABc_6lVQpiDkWuTjzRJ3pYgwaNympcFyqa_8-fYzzUOzA/s1600/Easel4.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg96Mb-XnadP0qvOAf1YZX0_elxCK6UA7ZAhJs6VwQZCz0ncJ1ADwoLwWm9zq88Qj-GL-tFtwx7ggSmnvP3WZFlcpE_n8eMrZABc_6lVQpiDkWuTjzRJ3pYgwaNympcFyqa_8-fYzzUOzA/s200/Easel4.JPG" width="200" /></a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Gently pinch the two outside pins so they are touching the center pin, while angling them outward like a capital letter A.<br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkw1e-vTSsqWPsl0QZbz9eq-8dKSmQnL1CfPvD2zflHeE5UDokN6OJjfArlEk5gWoMHC0vvP9o_qDRkEvBrRYP3kCcoRj5glN8GKWodihI962JdrIP-PM14k1Di3K3rg9DzVxEmEcLcNk/s1600/IMG_3543.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkw1e-vTSsqWPsl0QZbz9eq-8dKSmQnL1CfPvD2zflHeE5UDokN6OJjfArlEk5gWoMHC0vvP9o_qDRkEvBrRYP3kCcoRj5glN8GKWodihI962JdrIP-PM14k1Di3K3rg9DzVxEmEcLcNk/s200/IMG_3543.JPG" width="150" /></a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Dab hot glue at the base of the whole clothespins, and lay your last (whole) pin on the glue, thus attaching it to the easel. This is the stand where you can rest your artwork.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Stand up the tripod by allowing the center pin to fall back, as a third foot. You can see the dowel sticking out both ends of the top of your easel. You can either break of the unneeded pieces, or mark the spot with a pencil and cut it off. (My dowel was thin enough to use a pair of scissors to cut it.)<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6nD5de3lFf01eN6wt-ctaH2YypkhLMITnWG-hAvTaLGQoTuSuh5aoqKjPGvqZL06xftOJe6PkDx4QOvkuS3IgxsG3ZJgpzFMM4n17bq-es_ewBsH3bk0LBIFvpIDJB0nneRCbiYg69fs/s1600/Easel6.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6nD5de3lFf01eN6wt-ctaH2YypkhLMITnWG-hAvTaLGQoTuSuh5aoqKjPGvqZL06xftOJe6PkDx4QOvkuS3IgxsG3ZJgpzFMM4n17bq-es_ewBsH3bk0LBIFvpIDJB0nneRCbiYg69fs/s320/Easel6.JPG" width="240" /></a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If desired, dab hot glue onto the dowel where it meets the pins, to keep the whole thing in one piece. I also added a dot of hot glue to the bottom of each leg, to add traction, so it stands up without slipping. Paint or decorate as you please.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Add artwork/post-it notes, or photos to your easel, and enjoy.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I actually have this project on the calendar for next month, but I wanted to make sure I had the steps all set to go ahead of time - this was a test to make sure it wasn't frustratingly difficult, and it was perfect! I'm really looking forward to this one. I hope I get a nice crowd. The plan is to make tiny easels, and then paint "Mini Masterpieces" to go on top of them. (Maybe I'll even bring in my Bob Ross Funko to take photos with the tiny paintings! How cute would that be?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Having said that, I have my sample on my desk, and even though it's only been there for a day, I've already gotten several compliments on it, from people of all ages. I wouldn't do this with the younger crowd, because hot glue, but it would make a nice adult craft, too. </span></div>
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Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11629007214993819871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547456363849484926.post-12801329823799312302018-04-12T13:54:00.000-07:002018-04-12T13:54:00.755-07:00Science Club: Forensics<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcGe2OxJgcOeMtoK8mbHBpqxEmK2ugo4sOubjS94bKCKhngzfNVWpZzDBapXft5X7dpKMK5u5kne9xcdQNLWWar1hmpBzJ2sK6TBXsRx7TFLS7Hno_Oy_0E65RaVuKt5T9iQwQZ_U4WGk/s1600/EmojiCornerBookmarks+%25281%2529.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcGe2OxJgcOeMtoK8mbHBpqxEmK2ugo4sOubjS94bKCKhngzfNVWpZzDBapXft5X7dpKMK5u5kne9xcdQNLWWar1hmpBzJ2sK6TBXsRx7TFLS7Hno_Oy_0E65RaVuKt5T9iQwQZ_U4WGk/s200/EmojiCornerBookmarks+%25281%2529.png" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As an avid fan of <i>Forensic Files</i>, I can assure you that I think forensic science is fascinating. As such, I figured it would be a fun idea to bring a little bit of it into science club. Specifically, we're concentrating on ink chromatography and fingerprints today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Chromatography is the separation of a material (in this case, ink) into its component parts (in this case, the colors that make up the ink) by using a solution in which it dissolves (such as rubbing alcohol) on a medium in which different colors move at different rates (here, a coffee filter).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Basically: Different brands of pen will use different types of ink, which are all *slightly* different shades of blue. Perhaps one pen is a little more green, and another is a bit more purple, but it's hard to tell by looking right at the ink. What to do? Separate the ink into its component colors! Every pen will have a different pattern, and you'll be able to see which pen wrote the note.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I started by telling a very sad story: SOMEONE has stolen Miss Kat's chocolate! They left a note saying, "sorry!" but didn't sign it. How can we figure out whodunnit?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, I just so happen to have collected the favorite pen of three of my coworkers. I've already used chromatography to analyze the ink in the note - now we have to analyze the ink in the pens to see which pen wrote the note (and therefore which person ate my chocolate). </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At least 3 pens of the same color, in different brands (I used blue pens, because it was easier to see the color differences in blue than black ink)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. Cut the coffee filters into rectangles, roughly 1" wide and 3" long. You will need 3 rectangles per participants, plus extras in case anyone messes up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Take turns using the pens to write on the coffee filters; at the top of each, write the suspect's name. About 1/2" from the bottom of the filter, draw a thick horizontal line (or, scribble with pen enough that it looks like one solid line). </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIl9pTVYcR9Hma9La5_ZwjVuusSFP8PhuadmuXJHc3k_7vQFBNsHqpTY3d_yRjUWHmfuTDCfNewolNIom8tTR-fQ9tbkPdzptxItrEV6nWeb3xUMovMzi64DyDmlkPOKf26lfZnFSZ3YY/s1600/IMG_3377.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIl9pTVYcR9Hma9La5_ZwjVuusSFP8PhuadmuXJHc3k_7vQFBNsHqpTY3d_yRjUWHmfuTDCfNewolNIom8tTR-fQ9tbkPdzptxItrEV6nWeb3xUMovMzi64DyDmlkPOKf26lfZnFSZ3YY/s200/IMG_3377.JPG" width="150" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Clip one binder clip to the top of each rectangle, and thread all three clips through the pencil. Add about 1/2" of rubbing alcohol to your plastic cup, and suspend your pencil and its test rectangles over the cup. The bottoms of the rectangles should reach the liquid, but the ink line should be above the liquid's surface.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLqSD9vOdJEIp-xN9qC3fj8vf3HyI5KFQS9oEVNlU1vlkcssCIip3G4EDCiKJ_wDr-q2tvkPjKYEmaMsKqOmTm9qQfIKJS6n_dknD_iLoXCxgujuOrWPFfpiMCcdNhM1ODwqjYhCIpRzI/s1600/IMG_3378.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLqSD9vOdJEIp-xN9qC3fj8vf3HyI5KFQS9oEVNlU1vlkcssCIip3G4EDCiKJ_wDr-q2tvkPjKYEmaMsKqOmTm9qQfIKJS6n_dknD_iLoXCxgujuOrWPFfpiMCcdNhM1ODwqjYhCIpRzI/s200/IMG_3378.JPG" width="150" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wait and watch in wonder as the ink starts to separate. It may take a good 15 minutes before your samples are done, so this is a good time to start on fingerprinting. (Of course, it starts right away, so sometimes it's hard to stop watching it...)</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See that teal stripe at the bottom?<br />It was LAURA who stole my chocolate!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once the ink has stopped separating, you can carefully remove the rectangles from the cup, and examine them to see which pen wrote the note - and therefore which coworker stole the chocolate.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When you have plenty of graphite on the paper, rub your finger in the spot until it's covered. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then, press the sticky side of a piece of clear tape to your finger and press down. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Remove the tape and stick it to a piece of clean paper (or, in this case, the lab report). </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then, take a look at all the whorls, arches, and loops that your fingerprints have. Do any of yours match? Do they match anyone else at the table? They shouldn't! It's a one in a million chance that someone has even one fingerprint the same as you do. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here's the lab report I made up for Chromatography and Fingerprinting. I actually taped my Guilty sample to the "The Culprit" section of the paper and color-photocopied it before we began.</span></div>
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Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11629007214993819871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547456363849484926.post-49856546472167358922018-03-30T06:56:00.002-07:002018-03-30T06:56:44.978-07:00Super Quick Bunny Craft<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Print the template below onto cardstock - I used white, so the bunnies could be colored in any way the artists saw fit, but colored cardstock would be nice, too. Cut the pieces out.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Color and decorate your bunnies while they are flat, being sure to explain that one side of the bunny is the front, and the other is the back.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Fold along the dashed lines.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Apply glue to the inside of one bunny head and ears; glue to other side. You don't have to go any lower than the head.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If desired, glue pom-pom to the bottom at the back, for a fluffy tail.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sit back and enjoy your bunny.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I can't figure out how to upload the PDF version of this, so here it is as a JPG. It should print onto 8.5 x 11" paper perfectly.</span><br />
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Colored paper, mostly yellow<br />
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How To Do It</h2>
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1. Make sure all your paper is square. You can start with square origami paper, or cut it down to size. Be sure to save the scraps for future projects.<br />
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4. Holding the paper like a V, cut from the right corner of the bottom square, to the top corner of the right square. Repeat on the left. It will look like a kitty cat.<br />
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7. Keeping the opening of the pocket at the top, decorate your bookmark. I found that cutting out eyes and other features from paper and gluing them on worked better than markers or crayons, but it's up to you. Note: You probably don't want to use anything 3D like googly eyes or sequins, because then your book won't close flat.<br />
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I've made these to look like monster faces, Harry Potter characters, big arrows that say "I stopped reading here!", etc. It's a very easy, flexible craft, and can be as detailed or basic as you desire.Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11629007214993819871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547456363849484926.post-60797650767089440722018-02-08T15:28:00.003-08:002018-02-08T15:28:34.368-08:00Soda Can Science<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibuVOW9ofXAEhAQNMgtqOfJrZPyev3Cc-bUvqaQ_b81qQC42Mn2zXgR5xGy_tSZeZTZg99CdMcf861HkBXdu2rLITVBmbiTsboHUzesm0xtusDLxWfvp6wLQIwoBST9mYW583tXhNfnZg/s1600/SodaScience.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibuVOW9ofXAEhAQNMgtqOfJrZPyev3Cc-bUvqaQ_b81qQC42Mn2zXgR5xGy_tSZeZTZg99CdMcf861HkBXdu2rLITVBmbiTsboHUzesm0xtusDLxWfvp6wLQIwoBST9mYW583tXhNfnZg/s320/SodaScience.JPG" width="320" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My science club has hit a bit of a plateau. I only get 3 to 5 kids, and their ages are so varied that it's hard to find something that interests all of them. I read somewhere in my travels that diet soda floats, while regular soda sinks (Really!!), so I designed this density experiment to celebrate the awesomeness of this fact. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week, I only had three kids for Science Club - but they were all of similar age, and they all had a fantastic time. Plus, it was easy!</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6 cans of soda - a mix of regular and diet (please note: this doesn't work with mini cans)</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Something to stir with (we used a ruler)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">About 20 sugar packets</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">About 20 artificial sugar packets</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Orange (nice but not required)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Place the tub of water on a table so everyone can see. Shape your aluminum foil into a little boat. "Will this float, or sink?" Your scientists will all agree that it floats. Demonstrate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Crumple the foil into a ball. "Will it float now, or sink?" (Please note: you need to crumple it REALLY WELL, or it will continue to float, and you will look silly.) The scientists usually agree that it will sink - if you did it right, it will. So, what changed? The <b>density</b> changed, which is a measure of how much something weighs compared to how much room it takes up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Will the orange sink or float?" You may get differing answers on this one but the orange should, in fact, float. Neat. What if we peeled it? Your scientists will probably agree that it will still float, but they will be surprised to see it sink! Why? Because the orange peel has so much air in it, it acts as a flotation device, like if you wore a life jacket when you went swimming. So what does it mean if it doesn't have as much air in it? The orange without the peel is more <b>dense</b>. (You see where I'm going with this.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SO! Will a can of soda float, or sink? Drop the cans in one at a time, starting with a regular (non-diet) soda. It will sink. ("Duh," I was told.) Then, try a diet can. It... floats? WHAAAAAAT? Continue with all of your cans. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What's the difference between the cans that sink and the cans that float? The ones that float are DIET sodas. So what's the difference between a regular soda and a diet soda? Fish out all the cans and take a look. (You can put your tub of water aside now, if you have room.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The sodas all have the same amount of liquid in them - that's the volume. Put them on the scale one by one and notice that the diet sodas weigh less than regular sodas. This means that the regular sodas are more dense than the diet ones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But why? Well, take a look at the sugar content of the sodas. The regular soda cans that I had each had 49 grams of sugar (!) while the diet ones have sugar substitutes in them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Put an empty plastic cup on your scale and zero out the weight. Ask the scientists to add enough sugar to make 49 grams, and count how many packets of sugar that takes. (Our count was 16 packets. SIXTEEN PACKETS, in one can of soda!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Put a new cup on the scale and zero it out. Now, take 16 packets of artificial sugar and see how much that weighs (about 16 grams). Allow the kids to feel the difference in the weight of the cups, and also the weight of unopened packets. Wow, so that's why it's such a difference in weight, and therefore in density!</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH1uKQEhEE3yK_dmVnObuybBaZJDFQ0Kmupc4T1G2J4N2RS4RuqTCMDmKsjQ4D3FEhJEs-5jpBKuwLGBwq9nSH49I6EvsncGlS05dGzUm9RdXvZNDVCVvcyw3kMjwIQFZNVikCSr9xp2M/s1600/IMG_2768.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH1uKQEhEE3yK_dmVnObuybBaZJDFQ0Kmupc4T1G2J4N2RS4RuqTCMDmKsjQ4D3FEhJEs-5jpBKuwLGBwq9nSH49I6EvsncGlS05dGzUm9RdXvZNDVCVvcyw3kMjwIQFZNVikCSr9xp2M/s200/IMG_2768.JPG" width="150" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you have moved your water tub, it's time to bring it back. Ask if anyone has any ideas on how to make all the soda cans float. (Mine didn't, aside from pouring out the cans.) "Well, we can't change the density of the cans, but we <b>can</b> change the density of the water." Bring out a container of salt and allow the scientists to pour it (all of it!) in, and stir (we used a ruler for this) until it was as dissolved as possible. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We put the cans back in and noticed that the diet ones bobbed at the surface even more than before. The cans on the bottom sank more slowly than before, but when one of our scientists started stirring the "soda soup," we noticed that the cans moved when the water moved - it was hard to see, but they were, in fact, floating. Magic? No! Science!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Kat's Note:</b> because of the sugar content of ginger ale, which is less than most cola, orange soda, and grape soda, ginger ale will float, but not as high in the water as diet soda. Maybe skip the ginger ale.</span><br />
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<br />Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11629007214993819871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547456363849484926.post-3115941919785497802018-01-11T11:51:00.002-08:002018-01-11T12:00:47.902-08:00Valentine Stampers<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbwnJ_oORQtJLY9OvU2G2EX89PnbeCVMe1hWH9KoMvVXKGKdra9Ru7lfOGOwCGGpJ3I2QsMNWkBwohoBRHzpb3bgyodrHJAnfDNRO3k0y6IjwwMDLhKY6pYMWXF9yLAjslngDdg3j8Nro/s1600/IMG_1307.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbwnJ_oORQtJLY9OvU2G2EX89PnbeCVMe1hWH9KoMvVXKGKdra9Ru7lfOGOwCGGpJ3I2QsMNWkBwohoBRHzpb3bgyodrHJAnfDNRO3k0y6IjwwMDLhKY6pYMWXF9yLAjslngDdg3j8Nro/s320/IMG_1307.JPG" width="320" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I wanted to show you this super simple Valentine's Day craft in plenty of time to plan out an event. It's such a cute idea, and the kids tend to really love it. I had some kids make two, three, or even four valentines for friends and family (but I set the limit at four, because that's a lot, you're good now). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Paper in various colors, some cut into hearts of various sizes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Paint (I used washable tempera paint) in red, pink, purple, and blue</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Take your toilet paper tube and press in on one side, bending it inward. On the opposite side, bend it out a little bit. This makes it a heart shape. If desired, hold this shape in place by wrapping a rubber band on the outside of the tube.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Put out paper plates with various paint colors. Glue paper hearts onto construction paper, and decorate by stamping the cardboard tube into the paint, and then onto the paper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Decorate with markers, crayons, glitter, etc., until you're happy with the result. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This was super popular, and very, very easy. The kids loved that I let them make multiple valentines, and some made them to send to grandparents, etc. They loved the "I made it myself!" aspect, and the parents enjoyed that it was easy, fun, and also looked pretty nice, even with the smallest children. (It's hard to mess up stamping.)</span><br />
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The photo at the left here is actually two flowers stacked on top of each other. Doesn't it look lovely that way?<br />
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This craft isn't origami, because it's not just folding, and I don't know if it's technically kirigami (folding and cutting paper), because you're also using tape, but it's still fun. We can call it kirigami, anyway.<br />
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Start with a square of paper. If your paper isn't square, you can make it square by folding the short side of a rectangle onto the long side, and trimming off the excess.<br />
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With your favorite pair of scissors, cut off the corner (the right angle) and round out the shape. This will be your petal shape.<br />
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The next cut you want to make will be in an arc shape, as I drew here. Make sure you start at the open end of the paper (not the corner where all the folds meet), and cut toward *but not all the way to* the other corner.<br />
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Unfold your paper, and behold its beauty.<br />
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Put a bubble of tape in the center of your flower. Then, take the center paper flap on one of the petals, and fold it toward the middle of the flower, securing it to the tape.<br />
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You can use any type of paper at all. You can paint/color/decorate blank paper to really customize them, or use recycled books, origami paper - anything! They also look very nice when you stack them on top of each other, as in my original photo (at the top). GORGEOUS, I tell you!Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11629007214993819871noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547456363849484926.post-19555568384694461692018-01-08T10:57:00.006-08:002018-01-08T10:57:54.543-08:003D Paper Snowflakes<div>
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Have I mentioned how much I love arts & crafts? I really do. I've started an almost-weekly art program for teens, which I'm calling "Crafternoon" (I also love puns), and I've pulled out all my favorite crafts - plus a few new ones! <div>
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6. Flip your paper over and take the next-innermost flaps, and curl them toward you into a small tube. Tape to secure.</div>
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7. Again, flip your paper over, so your last tube is on the bottom. Take the next-innermost flaps, and curl them toward you into a small tube. Tape to secure.</div>
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8. One last time, flip your paper over, and tape the last two corners together into a tube. </div>
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THERE! Isn't it beautiful? Your paper tube-spiral should look like this.</div>
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9. Repeat with all sheets of paper, so you have 6 paper tube-spirals.</div>
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10. Take three of your spirals, staple them together at one end. Then, staple the spirals where the paper touches, at the widest part of the spirals. Repeat, so you have two of these.</div>
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11. Staple your two half-snowflakes together, and attach the last two corners of the spiral. And... voila!</div>
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Since you're attaching multiple sheets of paper together, your snowflake may be larger than you expected it to be. You can always start with smaller sheets of paper, but it becomes much harder to staple together when the snowflake is a smaller size. Glue or tape may work better in that instance.</div>
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You can also make snowflakes with 8 or 10 sides, but even numbers always look nicest, because they're symmetrical. </div>
Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11629007214993819871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547456363849484926.post-73041401528299716112017-11-28T12:37:00.002-08:002018-01-10T07:31:13.370-08:00Book Necklaces<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-9066700945107300935" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-family: Puritan; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 510px;">
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<span style="background-color: white;">Our next foray into wearable art is the book necklace. I made a sample over a month ago, and I very often get comments when I wear it (usually, "where did you get that?"). It isn't hard to make one of your own, but there are several steps involved. Here's how:<br /><br /><b>You Will Need:</b><br />* One sheet of plain, white paper (printer paper works)<br />* Card stock or thin cardboard (NOTE: I used white card stock for this project this time, because I had several sheets on hand, but I have done this before with a cereal box; because we are covering the book, it doesn't matter if there is a pattern on the cardboard or not.)<br />* Colored or patterned paper, for the book cover<br />* Scissors, tape, glue, ruler<br />* Necklace string<br />* Clasps (optional)<br />* Thumbtack or needle, to make a hole for the string</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 11.2px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Not pictured: string, because I forgot it until after I took the photo.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>Step One: Folding</b><br /><b>- </b>Fold the white paper in half from top to bottom, and cut along the fold.<br />- Take one of the half-sheets and fold it in half, and in half again, and again, and again. You want 32 small rectangles.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br /><b>Step Two: Cutting</b><br />- Cut out the rectangles; you will need 12 for this project. You can recycle the others, or use them for bookmarks.<br /><br /><b>Step Three: More Folding and Stapling</b><br />- Group the paper into 4 groups of 3 rectangles each.<br />- Fold each group in half, and staple along the crease. You should have 4 small paper books.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 11.2px;"><span style="background-color: white;">In progress.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>Step Four: Taping</b><br />- Tape two of the stapled bundles together at the spines; repeat with the other two.<br />- Tape all four of the little books into one big book.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>Step Five: Card Stock</b><br />- Set the pages aside and measure out a cover for your book out of card stock. I found that it worked best if it measured <b>2.75" x 1.5</b>". When we did this project at the library, I had all the covers pre-cut, so we didn't have to fuss with rulers and pencils and such.<br />(Why? It needs to be slightly taller than your pages are tall, and a long enough to cover both front and back of the little book, plus room for a spine. Because our little book is roughly 1.25" tall by 1" wide, this seemed to fit well.)</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 11.2px;"><span style="background-color: white;">I know you're all jealous of my Woody the Owl ruler, but I'm not selling it.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>Step Six: Making a Spine</b><br />- Before adding patterned paper, I folded my little book cover around the pages, pressing down to make a nice square spine. This step is optional, but I find that it makes it easier to put together in the end.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 11.2px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Sometimes it helps to see it, not just read it.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>Step Seven: Adding Patterned Paper</b><br />- Cut a piece of patterned paper that's slightly bigger than your book cover. I found it easiest to lie my card stock on the wrong side of the patterned paper, then drawing a rectangle around it, making sure to leave 1/4" or so of room for glue.<br />- Glue the card stock to the blank side of the paper, and then cut off the corners.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br /><b>Step Eight: More Tape</b><br />- Tape down the patterned paper on all four sides, then re-crease the card stock to make it into a book shape again.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br />- Make a bubble of tape and apply it to the inside of the book cover, on the spine. Press the pages into the tape and hold tightly. You now have an adorable little book!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 11.2px;"><span style="background-color: white;">It's so cute!!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>Step Nine: Making a Necklace</b><br />- Take a needle or a thumbtack and make a hole toward the top of the spine of your book. Wiggle it around until it's big enough to thread some string through. (Alternately, you can use a jump ring, but I didn't have any of those on hand.)<br />- Thread a string through the book spine, and cut it to the appropriate length. Either you can tie your string ends and slip the necklace over your head, or you can add a clasp.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br /><b>Enjoy!</b><br />Miss Kat's Notes:<br />- Yes, this is held together with mostly tape, but I've had mine for over a month and it hasn't fallen apart yet. I assume you could glue it, but I haven't had the need.<br />- If you are using cardboard with a pattern on it that you don't want to see, be sure to glue that side of the cardboard to the paper, thus hiding the Trix Rabbit.<br />- You could get really fancy and print out or draw a tiny copy of your favorite book cover and use that to cover the card stock. I found that I enjoy having a generic book, rather than a specific one, but it's up to you.</span></div>
Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11629007214993819871noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547456363849484926.post-36571062974274807602017-08-04T08:34:00.001-07:002017-08-04T08:34:10.059-07:00Dragon Crafts<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmjavUzcNdoNrFwZYQlMtwRP6ms2Lxk2wr08KrmrnzcNz3zJTy1rbih-NPLHbz1xLdmxckfZj4lxew_CUgpk4ygcXpTJro9XBgwvbZxQzTOrxCahoIkedDuYcP2J6o-I09CcF5IKyNdPA/s1600/Dragon+Crafts.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmjavUzcNdoNrFwZYQlMtwRP6ms2Lxk2wr08KrmrnzcNz3zJTy1rbih-NPLHbz1xLdmxckfZj4lxew_CUgpk4ygcXpTJro9XBgwvbZxQzTOrxCahoIkedDuYcP2J6o-I09CcF5IKyNdPA/s320/Dragon+Crafts.png" width="320" /></a></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It's the height of Summer Reading, and this year we're doing a Games theme ("Come Inside and Play!")</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This week's theme is Dungeons and Dragons! And as such, we have celebrated Harry Potter, watched <i>The Sorcerer's Stone</i>, and done THREE dragon crafts - one for kids, one for teens, and one for little guys at storytime. I know you're super excited to hear about all three, so I've put them all in this one post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Little Kids</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For dragon-themed storytime, we read <i>Dragons Love Tacos</i> by Adam Rubin, <i>If I Had a Dragon</i> by Tom and Amanda Ellery, and <i>When A Dragon Moves In</i>
by Jodi Moore. (Note: <i>Dragons Love Tacos</i> is much longer than I usually do for storytime, but it went really well!)We did the dragon hokey-pokey, sang "Pop Goes the Dragon,"and made what I
was calling "dragon blowers," for lack of a better name.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You need:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Green cardstock</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Paper streamers (red, orange, yellow)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">crayons, markers, etc.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Stapler </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You
can use toilet paper tubes for these, but then you'd have to paint them
all green, so I just made tubes out of green cardstock (cut in half and
stapled at the back). We glued strips of paper streamers (the kind you
use for parties - it's about $0.99 for a huge roll) to the inside. Draw
eyes on the end that doesn't have fire coming out, and a couple
nostrils, and you're all set! If you blow through the end with the eyes,
the paper flames will flow out and look like he's breathing fire! SO COOL! A note: These are much easier to decorate *before* you staple the paper rolls together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To be totally honest, I wasn't super thrilled with the way this craft turned out, but the kids loved it, and that was the important part.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Cut, decorate, staple - done!</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">His name is Norbert.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">With elementary school age kids, we made dragons out of paper plates. I found this on the <a href="http://www.pinkstripeysocks.com/2015/09/how-to-make-paper-plate-dragon-craft.html">Pink Stripey Socks</a> blog - you can download the template there for free. I printed out the template on neon green cardstock (it's easier to see on a white paper plate), and cut out five copies - one for each of my four craft tables, and one extra in case it was needed. The kids were supposed to trace the pattern, cut it out, and then decorate. It mostly worked, but I neglected to realize exactly how hard it is for little guys to trace things, and I did a fair amount of helping - not that I mind, as long as I have a free hand. (They were pretty good at the cutting part, and excellent at the decorating).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Once you cut and color your dragon (we used markers and crayons), you staple him together and he's ready to be played with. That easy! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My dragon is rainbow tie-dye, because I made him and I enjoy cheerful things.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Teens</span></span></h2>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">IT'S SO COOL!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The teen craft this week was dragon keychains. If you haven't made beaded keychains before, there are lots of tutorials online, and lots of patterns once you've got the basics, and while it looks somewhat complicated, it's really not that hard once you get the hang of it. I found this amazing <a href="http://rangavar.deviantart.com/art/Bead-Dragon-Keychain-181392223">beaded dragon keychain</a> on DeviantArt, and cobbled together a pattern based on it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You need:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">string/jewelry cord</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">beads (pony beads work perfectly)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Keychains/fasteners </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Tape (optional, but helpful)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The first thing you do tape your keychain to the table, so you have a nice, stable working area. Next, cut a super long segment of string - like, 4 feet long. Better too long and cut off the ends, than too short and have to try to tie more on. Knot the middle of the string tightly to the keychain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The knot at the center of the circle (the keychain) is really one long string, but the two halves are colored blue and orange on the pattern, so you can see the difference between the two strings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Our first line (going top-down) has our orange string going through two beads - go ahead and do that. The blue string also goes through the same two beads, but in the opposite direction. When you do this, you'll have two beads on your string, with the ends hanging down on each side (kinda like a bolo tie - see below). </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">String beads on both strings.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Start your second line the exact same way: string three beads on the "orange" string, then string the same three on the "blue," going the opposite direction. Continue as per the pattern.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The tricky part here (which I simplified from the photo I saw on Deviant Art) is the wings. I only used one string for each wing, doubling back on itself at both the outer tip of the wing, and the bead closest to the dragon's body. I hope the pattern makes sense to you. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The teens needed a little help getting started, and a little help with the wings, but they had a great time, and wanted to know when we could meet again and do different characters (I'd printed out some examples, like a butterfly and a Pikachu). </span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finished dragon.</td></tr>
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Dungeons & Dragons Week went well! The kids had fun, I had fun, a good time was had by all. I will definitely do the beaded keychains again, and the other ones were cute (but I don't like to repeat too often). <br />
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Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11629007214993819871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547456363849484926.post-19383465788062724872017-08-03T15:46:00.001-07:002017-08-03T15:46:53.219-07:00Cupcake Wrapper Owls<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5tg6QBJkkj8sGSzzBPDIqecVWLbnxHyfbp_GXDqlkkbbidOHGWZuU_WXRTG7V45ZZteW3MnEHZAPtkJvAV2tvUuilGS4e9WEOxsC_WIqMt98IpoumeYjc2wFy8bCFhuNY33QI116urI0/s1600/Owl.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5tg6QBJkkj8sGSzzBPDIqecVWLbnxHyfbp_GXDqlkkbbidOHGWZuU_WXRTG7V45ZZteW3MnEHZAPtkJvAV2tvUuilGS4e9WEOxsC_WIqMt98IpoumeYjc2wFy8bCFhuNY33QI116urI0/s400/Owl.JPG" width="351" /></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can't remember the first time I made these. It's been a few years, and every so often, I drag it out and do it again, because it's cute as all heck. I pulled it out this summer because we did an Oregon Trail themed week, and had the local Audubon Society come and do a show with live owls (which was SO COOL, you guys!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, of course, we had to make our own owls, and they're super easy and also adorable, and cheap. (Easy, cheap, and adorable is the magical trifecta of kids' crafts, in my book.) Here's how we did it:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Toilet paper tubes (or paper towel roll tubes, cut to size, if you have concerns about hygiene)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cupcake wrappers (2 per owl)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Construction paper or cardstock</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Markers or crayons</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Glue</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Flatten your cupcake wrappers, and decorate with markers or crayons, if desired. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Using your thumb, push in two sides of the top of the tube to make the owl's head, with "feather tufts" sticking up on either side. (See photo for what I'm talking about.)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cut two large circles from colored paper/cardstock, and smaller ones from white. Cut one orange triangle for a beak. Glue the face together as shown in the photo above, overlapping the colored paper slightly. Set aside.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cut one of your cupcake wrappers in half; these are your wings. Cut the other into quarters; these are your tail and feathers. I found it easiest to start with the bottom-front feather, overlapping slightly to make a "ruffle" on the bird's front. Then, glue the tail, and finally, the wings (which you can position however you like - is he taking flight? Perched on a branch?)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Once the feathers are all glued on, glue the face on the roll, overlapping the top of your feathers. Et voila! </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Variation: </b>If you don't have cupcake wrappers, you can use coffee filters (the white kind with the wavy edges). Flatten out the filter and cut off about an inch around the outside. The inside circle can be cut in half for the wings, and the wavy strip from the outside can be trimmed into 3" sections to use for belly feathers and a tail. If going this route, you probably want to decorate it before you cut. This would be really cool if you did the whole markers/rubbing alcohol craft, but you'd have to let that dry really well before starting.</span>Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11629007214993819871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547456363849484926.post-66581135565668160952017-07-20T12:24:00.000-07:002017-07-20T12:24:14.177-07:00Kids Craft - Paper Plate UFO (with Alien!)<!--[if !mso]>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjuLHFgx_lse8j8ToSwiIh0VEVjNZ5vKWQIsvcJ2PycfcrSFW3t0Dh3FqGhjyaaexMHrIwP0wagobtjyQ8hyphenhyphenvqH14Sn8Deb2mEOHjyj5XrOH_MKxV8z-VBCnLM1NSf0CoLkOMw8Msilc4/s1600/AlienCraft.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="505" data-original-width="471" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjuLHFgx_lse8j8ToSwiIh0VEVjNZ5vKWQIsvcJ2PycfcrSFW3t0Dh3FqGhjyaaexMHrIwP0wagobtjyQ8hyphenhyphenvqH14Sn8Deb2mEOHjyj5XrOH_MKxV8z-VBCnLM1NSf0CoLkOMw8Msilc4/s320/AlienCraft.JPG" width="298" /></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My apologies for not posting lately. Summer Reading means it's SUPER busy around here! This summer, instead of following the national theme, we are doing our own thing - games! Each week this summer has a different game as its theme, and this week we are doing Space Invaders. Everything is Outer Space! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Aside from our Star Wars Party and showing of <i>Star Wars: A New Hope</i>, we had Perler Beads for the teens, and this funky UFO-and-Alien craft for the kids. Here's how to make your own!</span></div>
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clear plastic cup</span></span></li>
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eyes, pipe cleaners, and other alien-decorating pieces</span></span></li>
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markers, paints, stickers, or other decorations</span></span></li>
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or tape (I used hot glue)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">String or ribbon (optional) </span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Decorate
the bottom sides of your paper plates with markers, crayons, stickers, paints –
or however you like! (If painting, let dry before continuing.) This will be the
outside of your UFO.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Make
your alien by decorating a pom-pom with googly eyes, pipe cleaners, feathers (they make great tentacles), etc.. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Tape
or glue the lips of the plates together, so both decorated sides are facing
out.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Glue
your alien to the middle of the top of your UFO.</span></span></li>
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the plastic cup so that the alien is inside it – he’s steering your ship!</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">If desired, glue a loop of string or ribbon to the top of your UFO so that you can hang it up. </span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I made the decision to bring my hot glue gun for this one, because it dries in seconds instead of the hours that Elmer's takes. I had expected the kids to REALLY want to use it, but it was a non-issue. I'd make this decision again, because it meant that they were sturdy and ready to be played with immediately.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Something I hadn't counted on: they're flying saucers, and so kids were throwing them around. (In hindsight, I should have known that would happen.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Everyone had a great time with this one! We talked about different materials you could use, like applesauce cups instead of plastic drinking cups, or bowls instead of plates. I mentioned you could glue on things like buttons and bottle caps, too, and I could see the wheels turning in one little mind. (I hope he brings me pictures!)</span></span></div>
Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11629007214993819871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547456363849484926.post-45296503336285813752017-05-03T13:05:00.001-07:002017-05-03T13:05:28.805-07:00Edible Birdhouse<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This birdhouse is edible! I mean, not for humans (probably), because this one is... for the birds. (I know, I'm hilarious.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Anyway. This is a really neat craft. The idea is, you take a wooden birdhouse (I don't think cardboard or paper mache would work too well in this case) and decorate it with birdseed. Then, the birds can eat the seed, and you can scrape off the paste and decorate all over again!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I actually have two types of birdhouses that I used: solid wooden ones from Michael's; and ones that you snap together, made out of balsa wood, that I got from Oriental Trading. Both work just fine, though I prefer the Michael's pre-made ones, because I pre-assembled all the other ones (as this program had some little guys) and it took me forever. Older kids and teens could assemble their own houses, thus negating this complaint.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Wooden birdhouses</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Flour</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Small paper bowls </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Popsicle sticks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Various birdseed (CAUTION: some birdseeds contain nuts, and may be an allergy issue. Read your labels!)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Roasting pans or cookie sheets (optional but very helpful)</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0wxBPpxILkvOuTQCuM3v3I5fDNU-muPSxMtjCZIBRRd_yvqjkWSKBUirEuCYV7DQgKPWYwzICUVNg9tDc0bsTTJw7HEwWYJ3ZqRad39bdUw-HbFA-lszAHi2D2pWF8BqwEjnnMlMRxhQ/s1600/Birdhouse1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0wxBPpxILkvOuTQCuM3v3I5fDNU-muPSxMtjCZIBRRd_yvqjkWSKBUirEuCYV7DQgKPWYwzICUVNg9tDc0bsTTJw7HEwWYJ3ZqRad39bdUw-HbFA-lszAHi2D2pWF8BqwEjnnMlMRxhQ/s320/Birdhouse1.JPG" width="308" /></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I set my table like this: Each place a paper plate with a birdhouse on it, and one popsicle stick. I put out two aluminum roasting pans per table, and filled each with good amount of birdseed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When children arrived, I let them pick their birdhouse, and we made each child a small paper bowl with a couple spoonfuls of flour and some water, stirred with the popsicle stick, until it made a nice paste. Kids were instructed to smear the paste onto the flat sides of the birdhouses, and then push the house, paste-side down, into the roasting pan. As long as they had good paste coverage, the house would emerge covered in birdseed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Repeat until all sides are covered. Then you can hang your house outside. The birds can eat the seeds, and then you can scrape the paste off and start all over again. YAY for repeatable crafts!</span>Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11629007214993819871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547456363849484926.post-36675920721095396892017-04-15T12:09:00.000-07:002017-04-15T12:11:04.004-07:00Teen Crafternoon - Lemon-Squeezy Canvas Art<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_Otya5JzI8y2xAuWdKav5avOy6iS3O37_9XaCnQ6jgOIi48dmHL6FU37LYFqe1YXCO4ZjNS5rkwJG5rzJVMiBWGkI5mCoyeSLY1jZgFDJTi-ZU1vuN0MHR4Sixwo4Cilgro2TvNLOTBw/s1600/canvas5.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_Otya5JzI8y2xAuWdKav5avOy6iS3O37_9XaCnQ6jgOIi48dmHL6FU37LYFqe1YXCO4ZjNS5rkwJG5rzJVMiBWGkI5mCoyeSLY1jZgFDJTi-ZU1vuN0MHR4Sixwo4Cilgro2TvNLOTBw/s320/canvas5.JPG" width="261" /></a>Easy-Peasy Lemon Squeezy! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've seen this awesome canvas art floating around, where you use painter's tape or masking tape and block out various areas on your canvas, and then paint the different shapes in different colors, and when you peel it off - voila! You reveal the nice, clean lines underneath the paint, and it looks really professional and awesome. So, that was my plan, but when I told my teens about it, one started explaining how she did that in art class once, but they made tree shapes. COOL, said I. LET'S DO IT!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Paint (I used tempera paint - not the best, but it works)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Brushes or sponges (we had old kitchen sponges - perfect!)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Painter's tape or masking tape</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Scissors (optional, but super helpful)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, take your canvas, and tape out a cool shape that you want to see later. For the one at the left here, I cut out flower petals and a center from masking tape, and then wrote my name with tape scraps. Be sure to push your tape down really securely, or some paint may seep under the edges (which can actually work for you, if that's what you're going for - see the second example).<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span>I would have taken a Before photo, but I honestly forgot - sorry! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When you're satisfied with your design, you can start painting. One thing that I neglected to realize is that tempera paint doesn't sink into a canvas like acrylic paint would, so it was a bit streaky. We solved this problem in two ways: Some of us embraced the streaks and made them part of the finished art (see above), and some of us used sponges to dab the paint on and make a cool, marbled effect. For the flower picture, I used a blend of blue and green, and a bit of white. I didn't even really mix them on the paper plate that passed for a palate - I just kept daubing with my sponge until the colors blended right on the canvas. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When you like the colors you have, you need to let the canvas dry for a few minutes. (Waiting was seriously the hardest part.) Then, you can peel off the masking tape and - behold! Your beautiful, super easy, lemon-squeezy art work!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We had a few who went with the tree design theme.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Branches were easier to manage when we used scissors to cut the tape. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This one was particularly cool because our artist not only embraced the streaky nature of tempera paint, but took the scrubby side of the kitchen sponge to streak backwards over her rainbow, making it go from "pretty neat" to "OMG that's AWESOME."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And here's my handiwork. I tried to make it look like a sunset, which... kinda worked. <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj82U9aSGTIusIkLNDM2RQBg3OEvIhM9uAE5GCTK14kNP781Ijps0_Y-piyUBGb5LqX1XQOJSEMWvsGVJVcTYBbEeLN766ZkBGp8jOIPqDea9BML2KLBV13tHQxmS2hW9Pgie5XdfHr5RE/s1600/canvas4.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNUWcKIphy3DdoMp5xoYSgVMgXujWKI47BEv2Q1Koyoi7qk6RAyQl1ype8AK-C48etQ1QYsqQdPzffbB1mo2a4QnnRejKuoDJY0nFP4JBiduo3RG6YDozY3Wc0Kn1HGQzZtoeLzSgEB0E/s320/canvas3.JPG" width="293" /><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj82U9aSGTIusIkLNDM2RQBg3OEvIhM9uAE5GCTK14kNP781Ijps0_Y-piyUBGb5LqX1XQOJSEMWvsGVJVcTYBbEeLN766ZkBGp8jOIPqDea9BML2KLBV13tHQxmS2hW9Pgie5XdfHr5RE/s320/canvas4.JPG" width="254" /></a></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One of the neat things
here is that I didn't push the tape down all the way to the edges
(oops!), so a small bit of my bottom paint layer - pinky orange - seeped
under the tape. Which I think actually looks pretty cool.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> I kept telling the teens that there were no mistakes, only happy accidents (just like Bob Ross! And they knew who Bob Ross is! DAY MADE!)</span>Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11629007214993819871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547456363849484926.post-41514203226399679462017-04-15T11:35:00.002-07:002017-04-15T11:35:11.870-07:00Teen Trivia - Anime<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My last Teen Trivia night was - by popular request- anime themed. Now... it's not like I dislike anime, but it's not my genre of choice (I'm more sci-fi and fantasy), so creating these questions took some time. I'm posting them here in the hopes that you enjoy them, because even though 9 teens asked for this theme specifically, I only had 2 show up. (*eyeroll* Teens, right?)</span><br />
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Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11629007214993819871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547456363849484926.post-63807848083686883142017-03-31T09:18:00.003-07:002017-03-31T09:18:55.973-07:00Crafternoon: Recycled Paper Jewelry<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As you may know, I'm quite crafty. ("She's crafty! And she's just my type!") I enjoy taking random things and making them into something new, and better yet if it's something that was just going to be thrown away or recycled, anyway. Because, really, much as I hate getting rid of stuff, the sting is much less if you end up turning your trash into treasure. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Enter the recycled book necklace! You simply destroy a book, add glue, eat lollipops, and then wear your creation afterwards. (Note: magazines work, too.) </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shown: LOTS of paper strips</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For this project, you will need:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">- Old books or magazines that you don't mind destroying</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">- Lollipops (or other dowel-shaped objects)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">- Glue</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">- String - hemp cord and elastic both work well</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">- Jewelry clasps (optional but very useful)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Why</span></h3>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In my many years (eh, about 5) working in libraries, I have seen so many books - <b>so many books</b> - get weeded. Weeding is an essential part of library life, and yes, we do try to funnel old titles to the Friends booksales when we can, but sometimes things are just too far gone for that. Ripped pages, coffee stains, stuff you know that nobody will buy... why not upcycle?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The How</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">First, you find a book that you can't do anything with. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This copy of <i>Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets </i>has seen better days. In fact, it's missing a cover, and the first few pages. I know that it's practically blasphemous to do anything at all to this series, but please note that I am not getting rid of <i>Harry Potter</i>. I have replaced it with a shiny new hardcover. Don't hate. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Anyway. Rip out a few pages of the book, and put it into your trusty paper cutter, and cut into long, triangular strips. I try to make them about 1/4" wide at the wide end, and maybe half that at the narrow end. You don't *have* to make them triangles, but this way they roll up into nice tapered shapes instead of cylinders.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is when you bust out the lollipops. In my vast experience (and I have done this program several times), a lollipop stick is the perfect size on which to roll beads. A pencil is too fat, a kebab skewer is too pointy, a lollipop makes for a perfect bead size while also providing a delicious snack. I got Tootsie Pops because they're delicious and also gluten-free and peanut-free, for our friends with allergies. (And they're delicious.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Keep wrapping, you're doing great!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When you get it to the end, secure with a bit of glue - glue sticks work well for book pages, while good old Elmer's works better for shiny picture book or magazine pages. You might need to hold it there for a few seconds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Now, slide the bead off the end of the lollipop. Voila! Beads!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When you have a bunch of beads, it's time to string, which you can do just like any other beads. I like to use hemp cord if there's time to make a necklace, but I've found that it's often easier to assume you'll only have time to make a bracelet, for which elastic cording works much better.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitud8OfkawTMdEm2wKq-bW5I6FthWe59_7jLmIUWAD_nN2Va7LCyRW18MC0qfvkr07Kxxfma8-WWNovEI1YxFIO_UhD4ASdsTr0GGsdiFF5_Clxc5GxWYDcbmQfMvpyn39URnOT_cFfFI/s1600/IMG_1903.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitud8OfkawTMdEm2wKq-bW5I6FthWe59_7jLmIUWAD_nN2Va7LCyRW18MC0qfvkr07Kxxfma8-WWNovEI1YxFIO_UhD4ASdsTr0GGsdiFF5_Clxc5GxWYDcbmQfMvpyn39URnOT_cFfFI/s200/IMG_1903.JPG" width="150" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Harry Potter beads are awesome for many reasons, but if you want color variety, you might want to turn to old picture books or magazines. Again, it doesn't really matter what is on the pages, because you'll only be seeing the colors of the edges of the paper strip. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So this strip at left (made from an old <i>National Geographic Kids</i> magazine)...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This jewelry is not waterproof. Which is obvious, in hindsight, but seriously, make sure you tell your crafters this or someone's hard work will be destroyed when they go to wash their hands. You <b>can</b> make it waterproof by coating each bead with Mod Podge after creating it - either by painting it on with a brush, or by dipping the beads into the jar. Of course, this adds the additional time of letting everything dry, so I don't usually bother with this at the library, but I do let everyone know that it's an option. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span>Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11629007214993819871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547456363849484926.post-90821637889421388032017-03-23T10:36:00.003-07:002017-03-23T10:38:39.037-07:00Teen Trivia Night<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRDwzFMeohUMuMC8x5Smztay2HzJXPChOUPCh4PDSQzmx4FZftnjM1DjUCnx3Thdc5NR10q6tjTId8fywD99NVWsibxoovTsHgZHjVcbrfbg_QN7NkpNlq7KTTWUnckNVpKknJtXkGlLg/s1600/Questions.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRDwzFMeohUMuMC8x5Smztay2HzJXPChOUPCh4PDSQzmx4FZftnjM1DjUCnx3Thdc5NR10q6tjTId8fywD99NVWsibxoovTsHgZHjVcbrfbg_QN7NkpNlq7KTTWUnckNVpKknJtXkGlLg/s200/Questions.jpg" width="136" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I love trivia. I love pulling random facts out of nowhere, and I get a particular thrill when it's a tidbit that I know, that fits perfectly in with a conversation. Of course, this labels me as an oddball when we're eating cashews and I comment that they're not actually nuts but seeds, and they grow on the bottom of a very perishable fruit called the cashew apple, which itself can be quite irritating to the skin, which is why you never see cashews in their shells like you do with almonds and walnuts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The point is, when my director suggested a Teen Trivia Night, I was all over it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are many ways to do a trivia night, and I think he had in mind a Jeopardy-sort of program with the questions on a projector, but I went a different route, and based mine on <strike>bar</strike> pizza place trivia nights that I've been to. In that kind of game, people can work singly or in teams (I don't usually have enough people that teams are necessary, but that can be fun sometimes). I ask 5 questions, then we go over answers, then go on to the next 5, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Note: In most trivia nights I've been to, they allow you to assign points to each of your answers, depending on which you're most confident with. I don't bother with that - each question is 1 point, and then the bonus round usually has multiple answers (for example, name movies starring Will Ferrell) and you get 1 point per correct answer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The goal is to make the questions easy enough that people won't get frustrated - it's no fun when you don't know ANY of them! - but not too easy, or it's boring. It's a fine line to walk, but when you hit it just right, it's awesome. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The first Teen Trivia I did was general knowledge. I only got two teens, but they had fun. The second one I did was, at their request, Disney-themed. I had <b>nine</b> teenagers! And they had fun! (We also added the pull of free pizza, and I was able to find Disney and pizza-themed graphics to use.) </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Please note that I own ZERO of these graphics. I just put them together.</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">General Stuff:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1)<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Beauty and the Beast</i>, who is the only character to speak with a
French accent? <span style="color: red;">Lumiere</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2)<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monsters, Inc.</i>, what is the code for when a human artifact enters
the monster world? <span style="color: red;">2319!</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 49.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3)<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lilo and Stitch</i>, why is it so important for Lilo to bring a peanut
butter sandwich to her fish friend? <span style="color: red;">Because Pudge
controls the weather.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4)<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Which of the original <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Toy Story</i> characters doesn’t appear in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Toy Story 3</i>? Slinky Dog, Bo Peep, Sid,
or Mr. Potato Head? <span style="color: red;">Bo Peep</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5)<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Who is the only title character who
doesn’t talk? <span style="color: red;">Dumbo</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 49.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6)<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">According to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Incredibles</i>, what is the only accessory a superhero does NOT
need? <span style="color: red;">NO CAPES!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7)<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In what city does <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ratatouille </i>take place? <span style="color: red;">Paris, France</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 49.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8)<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Lion King</i>, where does the lion family live? <span style="color: red;">Pride Rock/Pridelands</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9)<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What was the name of Jasmine’s pet
tiger? <span style="color: red;">Rajah</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 49.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10)<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What movie characters have a romantic
spaghetti dinner at Tony’s Restaurant? <span style="color: red;">Lady & The
Tramp</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11)<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alice in Wonderland</i>, what sport does the Queen of Hearts play? <span style="color: red;">Croquet</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">12)<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What is the name of Bernard and
Bianca’s mouse-run U.N. organization in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Rescuers</i>? <span style="color: red;">Rescue Aid Society</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">13)<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Peter </i>Pan, what did Peter try to fix with a bar of soap before
Wendy sewed it back together for him? <span style="color: red;">His shadow</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">14)<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What movie has a family who lives at
#14 Cherry Tree Lane? (Bonus point for the name of the family!) <span style="color: red;">Mary Poppins; the Banks family</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 49.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">15)<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What movie is the retelling of the
story of how King Arthur became the king? <span style="color: red;">Sword in the
Stone</span></span></div>
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named “Rover”? <span style="color: red;">Pluto</span></span></div>
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P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney, Australia? <span style="color: red;">Marlin
and Dory</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">19)<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Which princess has a pet chameleon
named Pascal? <span style="color: red;">Rapunzel</span></span></div>
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Wreck-It Ralph’s video game? <span style="color: red;">Fix-It Felix</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Finish this song lyric:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1)<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Let’s get down to business, to defeat
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><u><span style="color: red;">The Huns </span></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2)<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Everybody wants to be a cat, because
a cat’s the only cat who <u><span style="color: red;">knows where it’s at</span></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3)<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Did you ever hear the wolf cry <u><span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to the blue corn moon</span></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4)<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Just a spoonful of a sugar helps the
medicine go down, in the most <u><span style="color: red;">delightful way.</span></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5)<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Oh, oobie-doo! I wanna be <u><span style="color: red;">like you.</span></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6)<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What do they got? A lot of sand? We
got a <u><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: red;">hot
crustacean band!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7)<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I’ve got no strings, to hold me down,
to make me smile or make me frown. I had strings, but <u><span style="color: red;">now I'm free</span></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8)<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Genuflect, show some respect, <u><span style="color: red;">down on one knee</span></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9)<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The wonderful thing about Tiggers is
Tiggers are wonderful things! Their tops <u><span style="color: red;">are made
out of rubber</span></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10)<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I know you, I walked with you once <u><span style="color: red;">upon a dream.</span></u></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Bonus</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Name all seven dwarves.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sleepy, Grumpy, Bashful,
Sneezy, Sleepy, Dopey, and Doc</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I always make a themed answer sheet, too. Here's the one for Disney:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So How Did It Go?</span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Amazing. I love trivia night. They didn't know some of the older movies, which I expected for the most part, but the fact that they didn't know the lyrics to <i>The Little Mermaid </i>made me feel really old. Also, nobody knew the Tigger song. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This program lasted almost 2 hours, mostly due to pizza, so give yourself ample time to enjoy it. They've requested that the next trivia night (tonight, actually!) be anime-themed; I'll post that information after the program. </span>Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11629007214993819871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547456363849484926.post-64021982084830220052017-03-04T12:42:00.000-08:002017-03-04T12:42:06.599-08:00Fandom Friday - Pokemon<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, I was doing this cool new program series</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> that we called</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">and it didn't work, like, at all. And I'll tell you why - because I'm new here, and I don't know the kids very well yet, and I'm having trouble promoting stuff outside the library. The teens that come to the library saw the posters, but unless it was their specific fandom, they weren't interested, and I haven't gotten to know enough of them that I can be like, "this one LOVES Supernatural, I need to make sure I plan it when she can come." And I totally get that! But this is still a cool series of programs, and I'm going to try again when I have a bigger core group. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pikachu, of course.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">One of my favorite ones we did was Pokemon-themed. (Yeah, I know, it's SO LAST SUMMER, but the teens around here do like Pokemon, and they've asked for Pokemon-themed stuff. Who am I to disagree? I still play Pokemon Go sometimes, too.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Anyway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What I Did </span></h3>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I found a template online to make Poke-ball boxes on <a href="http://www.toocraft.com/post_pokeball-paper-crafts-to-make_258412/">TooCraft.com</a>, and printed those out on cardstock, and then we used scissors (and a box cutter for the slits) to put them together. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Then, I put out a ton of random craft supplies - puffballs are the most important, but I also had sequins, pipe cleaners, construction paper, tissue paper, markers, feathers, and LOTS of glue. Here's what we ended up with:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Venonat! He lives on my desk now.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I really love this, because the Pokeball boxes can open, and your puffy-mon can live inside! The cardstock holds up really well to repeated openings and closings, and it's sturdy enough that it won't fall apart too quickly. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I totally came up with the idea to make Puffball Pokemon all on my own, having seen how much of a puffball Venonat is. That said, if you Google search "puffball Pokemon" or "PomPom Pokemon," you get a ton of hits, so it's not like I'm the only one who has ever come up with this concept. Still, though. Rather proud of myself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I also had the DVD hooked up to play a few episodes while we worked, and snacks are always a must. (I don't think I actually did themed snacks this time, but I usually tie them into the theme somehow.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Definitely. Just, when I'm better prepared to promote it. Fresh off the boat, as it were, without a core group of teens, after years of no teen programming at all, wasn't a good time to start a series like this. But its time will come.</span>Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11629007214993819871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547456363849484926.post-42658114335220211642017-03-04T07:59:00.004-08:002017-03-04T07:59:43.593-08:00Science Club - Lego Volcanoes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When I started at the library where I currently work, a few months ago, there was a weekly LEGO-building club. And, okay, I love LEGO, too - but every week? Since it wasn't novel and exciting anymore, and the kids knew they could come whenever they wanted and build, the group had dwindled down from over a dozen to 2 or 3 kids each time. I decided that it was time to shake things up! Now, every Thursday after school, I run <b>Afternoon Explorers</b>, and we rotate between Science, Art, Cooking, and - of course - LEGO. This week was Science, and I decided to appease my LEGO diehards with a fun experiment. Behold, the LEGO volcano! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The concept is pretty simple - it's a baking soda volcano, but you have the kids build the volcano out of LEGO, around a styrofoam cup. Then, you can let it erupt all over the LEGO, cleaning them in the process. A drop of <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">dish soap makes it more foamy, and a couple drops of food coloring make it even more exciting.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I had set up lit<span id="goog_1231752652"></span><span id="goog_1231752653"></span>tle trays (we had them in the supply closet), each with one styrofoam cup and a couple handfuls of LEGO. The directions were: Build up the LEGO around the cup, as much as you want, as long as it still fits inside the tray. (For some reason, this was really hard for some of them to understand, but they got it eventually.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When each kid was done building, I came over and put three spoonfuls (which is WAY TOO MUCH, see below) of baking soda into the styrofoam. Then, the kid came back to my little side table and got a plastic cup, which we filled halfway with vinegar, and added a couple drops of dish soap and a couple drops of whatever color food coloring they wanted.They stirred it with a popsicle stick, poured it into the baking soda, and watched in amazement as their volcano erupted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This whole project went fairly quickly - one got bored and wanted to see the eruption, and then once we saw one eruption, everyone had to do their own RIGHT THEN. I even had a few kids come in who were way too cool for Science Club, until they heard there were eruptions, and then they had to come do their own. A couple kids did two volcanoes each, which was fine because I had the supplies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">TOO MUCH BAKING SODA. Holy crud. Instead of cleaning the LEGO, my pieces were all coated with a fine, gritty layer of baking soda paste. Even rinsing them off quickly wasn't enough, so I had to put them all in the big staff room sink with what was left of the vinegar, and some water, and rinse them all off, and leave them to air-dry on a couple old towels. They're fine now, but that was work that didn't need to be done. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yes. With less baking soda.</span></span> </span>Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11629007214993819871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547456363849484926.post-59930093808041290242017-03-04T06:35:00.000-08:002017-03-04T06:35:00.806-08:00Read Across America Day - Make a Wocket for Your Pocket<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi65Y5VL9aLuZpLQR0JOQo3DshcbYT955XNL5x0PsQt7LdLqbwKet0fHdsjzgeZ8Kl6kDy5T8G4BZztBUGfDTDAOZYgayrwZsSlKQEtOU6cv3nplx6LoA7YbH6MCqlyzOHvXBnJLXd-v6M/s1600/Wocket1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi65Y5VL9aLuZpLQR0JOQo3DshcbYT955XNL5x0PsQt7LdLqbwKet0fHdsjzgeZ8Kl6kDy5T8G4BZztBUGfDTDAOZYgayrwZsSlKQEtOU6cv3nplx6LoA7YbH6MCqlyzOHvXBnJLXd-v6M/s320/Wocket1.JPG" width="284" /></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Dr. Seuss's birthday (March 2) is Read Across America Day, where schools and libraries all over the country celebrate early literacy. Some places have kids dress up as their favorite characters, and they eat Green Eggs and Ham for lunch, or wear crazy socks (like Fox in Socks). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">As for me, it's usually a storytime with a craft. Since most Dr. Seuss books are super long (seriously, try to get through <i>Fox in Socks</i> and still have your toddlers paying attention), it's hard to pick some that will work. For my kids, I did:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd3zRqzapjQUN0plBmwiA8viJ-XW_gyDwP-Sk2EpOYIWgtwqf-w0iKWUvZCR696PI20poh9Ja9F0kZU2fot_C5NZ-OGUOVYMIzcyVTdk2ZcfMZ6_jSPi_ZOrm7BgKaEWPA7Eq5IZu87_0/s1600/FootBook.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd3zRqzapjQUN0plBmwiA8viJ-XW_gyDwP-Sk2EpOYIWgtwqf-w0iKWUvZCR696PI20poh9Ja9F0kZU2fot_C5NZ-OGUOVYMIzcyVTdk2ZcfMZ6_jSPi_ZOrm7BgKaEWPA7Eq5IZu87_0/s200/FootBook.jpg" width="147" /></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b><i>The Foot Book</i></b> - not one of my personal favorites, but the kids <b>loved</b> it. The surprise hit of the day! They all told me how they had feet, and their dolls had feet, and their cats had feet, and Mom has feet, and we counted the feet of every stuffed animal, doll, and little brother in the room.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLWYyH5QDsInGMCP5nJ4znqM4dxNxU8EhvSuhUo0Qzi0iD-QHJZc6vxGLzOj1Z8O5lW7FzZgOX8pl8urIhQu3BYnyO1lGJhByVIHFyvzacBtkVt2W6_CwaEFDIu9vbOA7omjQcnFehs3k/s1600/GreatDayforUp.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLWYyH5QDsInGMCP5nJ4znqM4dxNxU8EhvSuhUo0Qzi0iD-QHJZc6vxGLzOj1Z8O5lW7FzZgOX8pl8urIhQu3BYnyO1lGJhByVIHFyvzacBtkVt2W6_CwaEFDIu9vbOA7omjQcnFehs3k/s200/GreatDayforUp.JPG" width="142" /></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b><i>A Great Day for Up</i></b> - illustrated by Quentin Blake, so we talked about how Dr. Seuss wrote the words and drew the pictures for most of his books, but this one was illustrated by someone different.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><b>There's A Wocket in my Pocket</b> - </i>some of the kids loved this one, others didn't quite get it. ("There can't be a ZLOCK behind the CLOCK! There's no such thing as a zlock!") Even the resistant ones loved making their own wockets, though. We used clothespins from the dollar store, feathers, foam stickers, and googly eyes. I actually didn't have any pockets, but we decided it could be a zeater for my sweater. (One little one also didn't have pockets, and ended up making a goot for her boot, and a lirt for her skirt.)</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Assorted decorating bits, like feathers, foam stickers, or sequins</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If you use the springy kind of clothes pins, you can make the face on either end, because it'll clip on either way. If you have peg clothespins, make sure the face is at the closed end, so you can tuck him in your pocket.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I also try to do themed songs and fingerplays with my stories, and this week, I lovingly ripped them off from a couple other librarian blogs. This song is from <a href="http://missmegsstorytime.com/dr-seuss-storytime/">Miss Meg's Storytime.</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: underline;">I Don’t Like Green Eggs and Ham</span><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">(to the tune of “London Bridge is Falling Down”)</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> I don’t like Green Eggs and Ham<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Eggs and Ham, Eggs and Ham<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />I don’t like Green Eggs and Ham<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Sam I Am!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Would you like them here or there?<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Here or there, here or there?<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Would you like them anywhere?<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Green eggs and ham?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I don’t want them here or there<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Here or there, here or there<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />I don’t want them anywhere<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Sam I am!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You should try green eggs and ham<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Eggs and ham, eggs and ham<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />You should try green eggs and ham<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />You might like them!</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And this fingerplay is from <a href="http://melissa.depperfamily.net/blog/?p=760">Mel's Desk</a>: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">One little cat on a sunny day</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Put on his hat and went out to play</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Two little cats when the sky turned dark</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Put on their hats and went to the park</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Three little cats when the sky turned blue</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Put on their hats and went to the zoo</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Four little cats by the kitchen door</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Put on their hats and went to the store</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Five little cats on a sunny day</span></span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Put on their hats and they all ran away.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Yes, I made my own little hats. Not as easy as it looks, but they worked! I put a hat on each finger as we said each line, and we counted that our little hats had the same one, two, three red stripes; and one, two white stripes, as the Cat in the Hat's hat.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Thoughts:</span></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Overall, it went well. I do three different storytimes - a BabyTime, a StoryTime, and a Pajama Time (at night, for working parents - this one is only once a month). I use the same theme for all three, but usually different books. But, honestly, I have parents bringing older kids to BabyTime, and babies to StoryTime, so they end up being pretty similar. I can't do a "bounce your baby!" rhyme when half the group is 3 years old. But, everyone seems happy with it, so we'll keep going.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Also: this post took me forever to write. Maybe I'll get quicker at it? Hmm...</span></span>Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11629007214993819871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547456363849484926.post-14472124491456007202017-03-03T10:16:00.002-08:002017-03-04T12:19:08.514-08:00Who The Heck is Kat, and Why Do I Care?<h3>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Who the Heck Am I?</span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hi. I'm Kat, aka Miss Kat. I'm a Youth Services Librarian in Massachusetts. I primarily work with children and teens (ages 0-18), but I am also the Assistant Director (ooo, fancy!), so I do a little adult programming, and administrative stuff sometimes. But mostly kids and teens, and lots of programs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And Why Do You Care?</span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Because I'm sharing my vast knowledge of programming with you. I've been doing this for a few years now, and I'<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ve got a ton of ideas that I have tried, and <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">even more </span>I ha<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ven't even touched yet. Let me know what you think!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(And What's With That Title?)</span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It's a joke. Or a tribute, I guess. See, there's a children's book called <i>The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler </i>by E.L. Konigsburg, where these kids run away from home and - being wealthy and not wanting to actually do without creature comforts - spend a few nights at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Anyway. I'm a little disorganized, mostly because I have a lot of ideas and never enough time to implement them all. So maybe this will help me organize my stuff, and help you because you can share it all.</span>Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11629007214993819871noreply@blogger.com0