I can personally vouch for the yumminess of the Coca Cola Cake … and for the imaginative writing and colorful artwork that went into the activity that I supervised- House Books. The young author/illustrator was one of nearly 200 kids who enjoyed pizza, a bake sale, a used-book sale and most of all, four different bookmaking projects at Commodore Sloat Elementary School’s recent Literacy Night.
Show kids how to fold a 3D house from a plain old piece of paper, and one of ’em will always make something really, really scary. Posted on MaCategories 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, Book Structures, Libraries Thanks for sharing the kids’ work, and thanks for the shout-out for Bookmaking With Kids. And this link will take you to a list of posts about the past half-dozen creative writing sessions … lots of interesting ideas! See this post on the library’s web site there are lots more pictures and some step-by-step worksheets you might like. You can peek through the doors of the houses to see the animals the kids drew. The kids in Creative Writing for Beginning Readers talked about the personalities in the Potter stories and then made up characteristics for their own animals. Apart from the ever-popular scary House Book, kids have used Bookmaking With Kids instructions to make gingerbread house books, chocolate-making rooms (for new chapters in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), tree house books (for continuing the adventures of The Magic Tree House), books that look like Strega Nona’s house, Miwok “kotcha” and many of the 21 Missions in California, to name just a few.Īnd earlier this month, the Children’s Room at the Pasadena Central Library got kids started on Animal House books for critters they created as part of a celebration of Beatrix Potter’s 150th birthday.