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Our guest blogger today is Trixine Tahtinen, the director at Oostburg WI Library. She started out as a children's librarian and became director in 2000. She keeps her hand in children's programming work because she is delighted by it!
This
October will be the 90th Birthday of
Winnie the Pooh and the books have been a favorite of children for generations.
My plan is to have a 90 minute program with stories, crafts, songs and activities
for K4s and 5s.
Program Outline
Group Gathering:
First is an introduction to the
World of Winnie the Pooh. Introduce the characters, show a map of the Hundred
Aker Woods, a brief outline of the history of Winnie the Pooh. Next tell the
group they are going to be participating in a number of activities all having
to do with the characters in Winnie the Pooh books. Instruct them to go to the
different stations. For example, those who are wearing a blue name tag go to
station #1, red tags to statin #2 and so on. Once each group is at their
assigned station, they will have 10-15 minutes at the station to complete the
activity. (Can gauge how
long but observing how it is going at each). Then they will be instructed to
move to the next station.
Stations planned
for the children to participate in:
Story Station: using a
group of my teen volunteers to do a reader’s theater presentation of one of the
classic stories of Winnie the Pooh, written into a script form. (See
sources at the end of this paper). Supplies needed: copies of scripts, either
headband masks of the characters or signs on their shirts indicating who they
are.
Hunny Cake Bake
and tasting station: using a recipe for honey cake, the group will mix together
a cake batter and the adult volunteer will bake the cake. While it is baking,
the children will have a chance to taste some local honey. The cakes will be cut
up and each child will take a slice home at the end of the program. Supplies
needed: ingredients for cake (purchased or ask for donations) and a donation of local
honey from one or more of our many local honey producers.
Bear Bookmark Making: each child will make a book mark using a printed out
picture of Pooh or one of his friends and a ribbon. Supplies needed: printed
off pictures, crayons, ribbons, clear contact paper, hole punch.
Pooh
Trivia and Quiz Time: each group will work as a team to solve some trivia and
quiz questions based on Winnie the Pooh trivia,
or I
may also create a Pooh mad lib for the group to create together. Supplies
needed: quiz and trivia questions gleaned from many websites and/or the books,
paper filling out the madlib and a photocopier to copy the stories so each
child can take a copy home.
Pooh’s Stoutness
Exercises: Ideas for this
station, have the children participate in playing pooh-sticks; toss the bees in
the “hunny pot”, or
play a duck, duck,duck, goose type
game using the words “hunt, hunt, hunt, heffalump”. Supplies
needed: a rain gutter section with sealed ends and small twigs for the children
to move by blowing for “pooh sticks”; a bucket labeled “hunny pot” and beanbags decorated like bees for the
toss game. Other ideas for games: pin the tail on Eeyore.
Wrap-up
Gathering
When each group has completed the stations, they will once again
gather together as one group. If there is still time, I will read one of
the chapters from one of the A.A. Milne books or will
show a short film. We will hand out the piece of honey cake for
each to take home and provide some coloring sheets and puzzles to choose from
to take home. I will also ask for a show of hands who would like to come
next month for a different book party program and I will also have a check list
for parents to vote on this when they come and pick up their child.
Sources
used for items, printouts, games.
Literature Activities for Young Children, Book Two by Teacher
Created Materials Inc. 1989
The Winnie the Pooh Cookbook by Virginia Ellison
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