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From: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults and Children" <pubyac@prairienet.org>
To: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults and Children" <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 9:41 AM
Subject: PUBYAC digest 901
PUBYAC Digest 901
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) RE: what to do w/ scarves?
by "Kathleen Conger" <kathleen.conger@ci.stpaul.mn.us>
2) Re: what to do w/ scarves?
by Julie Miller <jumiller@kcls.org>
3) Best anime DVDs
by "Flores, Linda" <lflore@camden.lib.nj.us>
4) Junie B. parties
by Katrina Neville <KatrinaN@moval.org>
5) Re: Good morning to you...
by "Jennifer Murphy, Head of the Children's Library"
<murphyj@uhls.lib.ny.us>
6) RE: have you made windsocks at your library?
by "Susan D. Carr" <scarr@wpl.lib.oh.us>
7) televise storytime
by Bonita Kale <Bonita.Kale@euclidlibrary.org>
8) Re: Arthur Ideas
by Hegquist <dhegquis@suffolk.lib.ny.us>
9) Youth Librarian Position/Austin Public Library (TX)
by Jeanette Larson <larsonlibrary@yahoo.com>
10) popcorn list-Thanks!
by "Theresa Stoner" <tstoner@vigo.lib.in.us>
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From: "Kathleen Conger" <kathleen.conger@ci.stpaul.mn.us>
To: <jdarnall@ccls.org>, <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: RE: what to do w/ scarves?
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For cheap scarves, go to your local thrift stores. You can usually find
scarves and handkerchiefs for a dollar or less; often they are silk,
sometimes vintage!
Kathleen Conger
Youth Services Librarian
Saint Paul Public Library
kathleen.conger@ci.stpaul.mn.us
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From: Julie Miller <jumiller@kcls.org>
To: Marty Staton <mstaton@ci.poquoson.va.us>
Subject: Re: what to do w/ scarves?
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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 10:40:23 CST
Georgiana Liccione Stewart has a new CD called Musical
Scarves and Activities. I purchased a copy for my branch but
haven't listened to it yet! I am newly motivated to do so...
Julie Miller
Children's Librarian
King County Library System
Federal Way Regional Library
34200 1st Way South
Federal Way, WA 98003
(253) 838-3668
jumiller@kcls.org
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From: "Flores, Linda" <lflore@camden.lib.nj.us>
To: "'pubyac@prairienet.org'"
<pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Best anime DVDs
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Dear Pubyacers: My manager has asked me to find out which anime DVDs are
rated the best since we want to order some. Can anyone recommend a website
or journal article which rates these animes? I would be very grateful if you
could help since I have come up against a dead end.
Thank you.
Lin Flores
Senior Librarian
South County Regional Library
Atoc, NJ
lflore@camden.lib.nj.us
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From: Katrina Neville <KatrinaN@moval.org>
To: "'pubyac@prairienet.org'"
<pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Junie B. parties
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Hi all,
I apologize... I didn't think I wanted the Junie B. party ideas, so I
discarded the compiled answers email. Now I do need it (of course)!
Could
the original poster of the party ideas compilation please send it to me
off-list? Thanks in advance!
Katrina
Katrina Neville
Children's Librarian
City of Moreno Valley
25480 Alessandro Blvd.
Moreno Valley, CA 92553
t: 909-413-3880
f: 909-247-8346
e: katrinan@moval.org
w: www.moreno-valley.ca.us
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From: "Jennifer Murphy, Head of the Children's Library"
<murphyj@uhls.lib.ny.us>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: Good morning to you...
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> I remember it a little differently at the end, but I may not have all of
> it:
> Good morning to you
> Good morning to you
> We're all in our places
> With bright shining faces
Oh, this is the way
to start the new day.
(next to last line goes up the scale, last line comes back down.)
> we have a patron here who believes there is another
> stanza...please respond to my e-mail address if you
> can help.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Adrienne Wass
> Henderson Library
> Winnipeg Public Library
> Tel: (204) 986-4345
> E-mail: awass@city.winnipeg.mb.ca
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
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From: "Susan D. Carr" <scarr@wpl.lib.oh.us>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: RE: have you made windsocks at your library?
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Hi--Pardon me if this is a repeat somewhere, but I've had trouble
posting from our desk computer (hm). I've made ghost windsocks out
of
kitchen-sized trash bags. Inserting a circle (6" in diameter or so)
cut
from a plastic milk jug in the bottom of the bag (which becomes the
ghost's "head") provides stability and a place to attach a hanger
(yarn,
thread, etc) then we cut the open part of the bag into vertical strips
(like big fringe)so it flutters in the wind. The final touch is a
ghostly face (black ovals for eyes and an open mouth)drawn on with a
marker. They look cool hanging from trees!
Have fun
Susan Carr
scarr@wpl.lib.oh.us
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From: Bonita Kale <Bonita.Kale@euclidlibrary.org>
To: pubyac <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: televise storytime
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"Heather Acerro" writes: I know this has been discussed before, but at
the time I didn't pay much
attention because it didn't apply to me. Well, now it does.
A community organization would like to videotape a storytime and use
clips in an educational video. Does anyone have any idea of the
copyright issues involved? The organization is non-profit, they will be
giving the videos away. The storytimes include books, fingerplays and
flannelboard stories.
Don't know about copyright issues, but we had to have a special group
in which everyone had a signed waiver allowing them to be on TV.
Bonita
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From: Hegquist <dhegquis@suffolk.lib.ny.us>
To: Lisa Hunziger <hunzigel@hhpl.on.ca>
Subject: Re: Arthur Ideas
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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 10:41:09 CST
Hi Lisa,
I did an Arthur program a while back for his birthday. (The same
day as mine, by the way!) We read stories, played pin the bowtie on
Arthur, had a "Cookie Cake"--a huge chocolate chip cookie with a
candle to
blow out, and made Arthur paper bag puppets. I think I got the pattern
from an old Copycat from another librarian actually. I can try to unearth
it if you are interested. I just would need your address. Good luck.
--Dana Hegquist, Southold Free Library, Long Island, NY
Most people think that one is loved only for all of their positive
traits. But love doesn't work like that. Sometimes you're loved
because
of your weaknesses--what you can't do is sometimes more compelling than
what you can.
~~~
Dana Hegquist
Children's Librarian
dhegquis@suffolk.lib.ny.us
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From: Jeanette Larson <larsonlibrary@yahoo.com>
To: TX-YAC@lists.state.tx.us,
Pubyac <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Youth Librarian Position/Austin Public Library (TX)
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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 10:41:16 CST
Austin Public Library has an immediate opening for a
youth librarian. The position is at the Librarian I or
Librarian II level, based on experience and is open to
new graduates. Information and application details
are online at
http://waller.ci.austin.tx.us/jobapp/jobs_detail.cfm?Requisition_ID7423
and can be submitted electronically. (If the line
wraps and you can't use the link, go to
www.cityofaustin.org/library
and click on "job
opportunities.)
Applications are due by 1:00 p.m. (Central Time) on
Friday November 1.
Jeanette Larson
Youth Services Manager
Austin Public Library
P.O. Box 2287
Austin, TX 78768-2287
512-499-7405
larsonlibrary@yahoo.com
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From: "Theresa Stoner" <tstoner@vigo.lib.in.us>
To: <PUBYAC@prairienet.org>
Subject: popcorn list-Thanks!
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This is my second "shot" at trying to send this-please let me know if
it
doesn't send correctly!
Thanks to all who sent in suggestions to help me with my popcorn program!
I never knew that you could do so much with popcorn! Below are listed some
of the ideas I received.
Thanks,
Theresa Stoner
Vigo County Public Library
tstoner@vigo.lib.in.us
Popcorn Program Ideas
Have kids use popcorn to fill in pictures of snowmen.
It also makes nice flowers on the ends of drawn
branches.
Susan Engelmann
North Kansas City (MO) Public Library
Check out www.popcorn.org
Nikeda Webb
Youth Services Coordinator
Wilmington Public Library District
201 S. Kankakee St.
Wilmington, IL 60481
815-476-2834
815-476-7805 fax
nfwebb@wilmingtonlibrary.org
Visit the world @ your libraryT
Have a look at www.popcorn.org for lots of
recipes and idea to use.
They'll probably even send the guide they have for teachers--we're
educators too!) I did a program a long time ago and used The Popcorn
Dragon by Jane Thayer and The Popcorn Book by Tomie DePaola. There's
also a book called The Popcorn Shop by Low and one by Frank Asch called
Popcorn. I'm sure there are others. We had great fun. Peanut butter and
jelly popcorn was excellent, even though it sounds very odd. If I
recall, we used a hot air popper that one of the staff members here
owned. It was a long time ago so I'm sorry I can't recall too much
else. Hope this helps!
Kym Lucas, children's department supervisor
Brunswick Community Library
Brunswick, OH
Pour the popcorn in the pot
POP! POP! POP! (clap hands)
Shake it 'til it's nice and hot
POP! POP! POP! (clap hands)
Lift the lid, what have you got?
POP! POP! POP! (clap hands)
Popcorn!
Hope this helps!
Crystal Kehoe
Ckehoe@bettendorf.lib.ia.us
<mailto:Ckehoe@bettendorf.k12.ia.us>
For Thanksgivingish ideas, you can draw a picutre of an ear of corn on
a
piece of construction paper, and in the corn part, glue on some popped
and
some unpopped corn.
Have fun!
____________________
Annemarie Meyer
ameyer@ccclib.org
Youth Services Librarian
Pinole Library
Contra Costa County Library
just did a popcorn storytime in our preschool time. I read the "Popcorn
Dragon" by Jane Thaler. It is a good story. (It was long for the
preschoolers so divided it up into 2 parts and did some fingerplays in
between.)There is also ::The Popcorn Shop" by Alice Low and "Popcorn
at
the
Palace" by Emily Arnold Cully. I didn't do a craft. But I did do some
activities. FIrst I got some bubble wrap (Our tech services saved me
some
for 2 months and then I bought a roll of it from Staples.Large bubble
bubble
wrap works the best.) Then I gave each child a 12 x 12 sheet of it and
let
them jump on it for a few minutes. It sounds like popcorn popping. I
also
took a white bed sheet and had all the kids hold it along the edges
(Like
what they do with a parachute in the schools). Then I crumpled some
yellow
paper (The buttered popcorn)and as the kids snap the sheet up and down
I
added the popcorn. As it fell out we would just put it back in. The
kids
loved it. (Be prepared both of these activities are quite noisy.) I
Hope
this helps some.
Have a great day.
Michelle Ford
Broome County Public Library
Binghamton, NY
Oh so many ideas so little time. I recently had 3 year olds use popcorn
to
decorate a picture of a chickadee or any animal. Make Popcorn Balls,
Carmel
Popcorn, have a movie day. A book Popcorn at the Palace. Sorry not sure
of
author. Take a look on the internet you will find lots of ideas.
Angela
Taylor Memorial Public Library
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
did a popcorn storytime.....we colored white paper yellow ( for butter
),
wadded them into balls...take a flat full size white sheet, put their
popcorn balls on the sheet, have the children hold the sheet all the
way
around and they can pop slow or fast....if you go to jollytime.com they
have
some great ideas too....
Carol
carol.sexton@charterbn.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Theresa Stoner" <tstoner@vigo.lib.in.us>
To: <PUBYAC@prairienet.org>
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 11:57 AM
Subject: popcorn ideas
There is a book by tomi depaola (I don't recall the title) that is
great.
It deals with the overproduction of popcorn. that's all i could come up
with. i remember making dinosaur shapes and covering them with popcorn.
there must have been another book i used...who can remember!
Hi Theresa,
Check out this link with a lot of story and activity ideas for popcorn:
http://www.geocities.com/mystorytime/popcorn.htm
Hope it helps!
Beth
Beth M. Zambito
Children's Librarian
Adriance Memorial Library
93 Market Street
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
(845)485-3445 x3329
I have done crafts using popcorn by gluing the popcorn onto a piece of
paper with an outlined shape on it, such as a snowman. You get a very
textured piece of artwork. Also, here is an action rhyme I use, the
kids just love it::
I am popcorn in a pan (crouch down)
Don't forget my top ( use hand to make lid on top of head)
For soon I will be sizzling
And then I will begin to POP! (jump up at pop and repeat the word
"pop"
again and again while jumping up and down)
Good luck
Karin Grossmann
Kitimat Public Library
Kitimat, BC
Canada
I have done crafts using popcorn by gluing the popcorn onto a piece of
paper with an outlined shape on it, such as a snowman. You get a very
textured piece of artwork. Also, here is an action rhyme I use, the
kids just love it::
I am popcorn in a pan (crouch down)
Don't forget my top ( use hand to make lid on top of head)
For soon I will be sizzling
And then I will begin to POP! (jump up at pop and repeat the word
"pop"
again and again while jumping up and down)
Good luck
Karin Grossmann
Kitimat Public Library
Kitimat, BC
Canada
I have done crafts using popcorn by gluing the popcorn onto a piece of
paper with an outlined shape on it, such as a snowman. You get a very
textured piece of artwork. Also, here is an action rhyme I use, the
kids just love it::
I am popcorn in a pan (crouch down)
Don't forget my top ( use hand to make lid on top of head)
For soon I will be sizzling
And then I will begin to POP! (jump up at pop and repeat the word
"pop"
again and again while jumping up and down)
Good luck
Karin Grossmann
Kitimat Public Library
Kitimat, BC
Canada
Do you have the book by Caroline Feller Bauer--Read for the Fun of It?
On pg. 309 she has a popcorn trick and a retelling of the story "Paul
Bunyan
and the Popcorn Blizzard." I've used both and they will work very
well
for
your age group. I'd be happy to fax, if you don't have the book.
June Osowski
Rutland Free Library
Rutland, Vermont
did a popcorn program last week at our library. Copycat Magazine
Sept/Oct
2002 had several popcorn ideas. I used the "Kingdom of Pop-a-Lot poem
on
page 30 as a flannel board story, and then we had kids act out parts of it
-
I think we must have repeated this about 6 times. They weren't tired of
it,
but I'd had enough. The pre-schoolers also loved all jumping at once on
pieces of bubble wrap to make popcorn popping noises (it was loud, and
they
kept juimping long after the bubbles were popped). My older kids played
popcorn bingo using the form from page 34, and pieces of popcorn to
cover
the squares. They thought this was great, and then ate up the mess.
If you don't have access to the magazine, I can send copies or fax the
pages to you, let me know if you need them.
Linda Ackerman
Portland, TN
linda_ackerman@hotmail.com
As our reading club this year has been "Pop Up For Reading!",
we've
been
doing a lot of "pop" things. This would be a good time to read a
few
pop-up
books. I wrote a puppet show called "Pop Goes the Weasel?" which
has
been
very successful - if you'd like, I can forward you a copy of it.
Hope this helps!
Mara Alpert
Acting Senior Librarian
Children's Literature Department
Los Angeles Public Library
malpert42@hotmail.com
Popcorn Storytime
(revised 2/15/02 ehm)
Books
Aliki. Corn is Maize
Asch. Popcorn (T,PS)
DePaola. The Popcorn Book (K)
McCully. Popcorn at the Palace
Oppenheim. "Not Now!" Said the Cow (Demarest) (T,PS)
Sandburg. The Huckabuck Family (Small, ill.)(K)
Thayer. The Popcorn Dragon (K)
Wolff, Ashley. Stella and Roy (PS)
Wyler. Science Fun with Peanuts and Popcorn
Ziefert. Clara Ann Cookie, Go to Bed (T,PS)
Flannels
How Corn Grows (ehm)
Puppets / Props
Pig puppet (who loves Popcorn)
Parachute and Ping Pong Balls (or paper wads)
Popcorn bag with poem on it (poem below) Pretend to throw popcorn but it
is
attached to
inside of bag by thread.
Popcorn Bucket Wastebasket and paper wads to toss in
Blow dryer to keep ping pong ball aloft
Popcorn Necklace Magic Trick
Popcorn trick:
Make popcorn necklace by taking whole kernels of popped corn and string
them
with needle and thread to make a necklace. Use as much popcorn as it
takes
to make a necklace to fill the bowl. Arrange the necklace in the bowl
so
that it looks like a bowl of popcorn ready to eat.On top of the necklace
place a few kernels of loose popcorn.Show the audience the bowl of
popcorn.
Take a few kernels from the bowl and eat them. Throw some up in the
air.
Show an empty paper bag. Place a string in the bag.Pour the popcorn in
the
bag. (Make sure the popcorn doesn't spill over the sides and spoil the
trick.) Pull out the necklace.
Crafts
Popcorn Print Pictures - Press popcorn on stamp pads and press onto
paper,
or saturate
sponges with tempera paint for pressing.
Bird Feeders - Small paper plates with popcorn glued on (maybe some
cranberries for
color)
Florist wire to string popcorn on, then twist into a loop for a bird
feeder
Glue Popcorn to shapes
Cloud Pictures - glue popcorn to blue paper
Popcorn Toss game - glue yarn to popcorn and tape other end to a dixie
cup.
Toss the
popcorn in the air and try to catch it in the cup.
Popcorn-eating Puppets - sock puppets
Games
Popcorn Toss - decorate a white wastebasket with red stripes to look like
a
popcorn container. Have kids wad up white paper "popcorn" to toss into
container.
Parachute and Ping Pong Balls (or paper wads) - hold the sides of the
parachute and toss
the ping pong balls into the air.
Riddle
It's fluffy, white and crunchy,
A perfect movie treat.
You pop it in the microwave,
Then scoop it up to eat. What is it? A: Popcorn!
Fingerplays / Activities
Pretend to be popcorn: Get planted, grow, get watered on, get harvested,
shucked, and stripped from the cob.
Popcorn, Popcorn
Popcorn, popcorn,
Put it in a pan.
Shake it up, shake it up, (wiggle)
Bam! Bam! Bam! (jump up)
Pizza, Popcorn, Pumpernickel
Pizza, popcorn, pumpernickel,
My dear Mom shall have a tickle.
One for her nose, and one for her toes, (tickle nose, then feet)
And one for her tummy where the popcorn goes! (tickle tummy)
We are Popcorn
We are popcorn sitting in a pan (squat down)
Don't forget the top (place one hand on top of head)
First we start to sizzle (shake and shimmy)
And then we're gonna POP!! (jump up with arms outstretched)
Pop
You put the oil in the pot,
And you let it get hot.
You put the popcorn in,
And you start to grin.
Sizzle, sizzle (crouch down)
Sizzle, sizzle (slowly get bigger)
Sizzle, sizzle
Sizzle, sizzle...
POP! (jump in the air)
Pop, Pop, Pop
Pop, pop, pop,
Says the popcorn in the pan.
Pop, pop, pop,
You may catch me if you can.
Pop, pop, pop,
Says each kernel bright and yellow,
Pop, pop, pop,
They are clever little fellows.
Pop, pop, pop, as they scamper across the heat.
Pop, pop, pop,
They are very good to eat!
Mama's Poppin' Popcorn
Mama's poppin' popcorn (clap, clap on "popcorn")
Hear that popcorn pop!(clap on "pop')
How I love to eat it; (rub tummy)
Fill my bowl up to the top! (make big "bowl" with both arms)
Popping Hopping Popcorn
One little kernel (hold up one finger)
Sleeping in the pot (pretend to sleep)
Turn on the heat and watch it pop (jump up)
Popping, hopping popcorn,
A munchy, crunchy treat.
Pour on the butter
And let me eat!
The Popcorn Tree
Pop a lot of popcorn,
Thread it on a string.
Trim the garland on the tree,
We'll all join hands and sing.
Oh, pretty little fir tree,
Trimmed with a nice treat,
With yor branches filled with popcorn,
You look good enough to eat.
Pop, pop-pop, pop, pop.
With your branches filled with popcorn,
You look good enough to eat. POP!
Songs
Popcorn in the Popper (tune: Farmer in the Dell)
Popcorn in the popper,
Popcorn in the popper,
Pop, pop, pop, pop, (jump up and down)
Popcorn in the popper.
Butter in a dish,
Butter in a dish,
Melt, melt, melt, melt, (sink to the floor)
Butter in a dish.
Pop! Goes the Popcorn (tune: Pop Goes the Weasel)
All around in the microwave,
The smell fills the kitchen,
When the bag is nice and hot,
POP! Goes the popcorn.
Pop, Pop, Pop the Corn (tune Row, Row, Row Your Boat)
Pop, pop, pop the corn.
Pop it big and white.
Popping, popping, popping, popping,
Popping 'til it's right.
I'm a Little Popcorn (tune: I'm a little teapot)
I'm a little popcorn in a pot
Heat me up and watch me pop.
When I get all fat and white I'm done
Eating popcorn is lots of fun!
Found Some Popcorn (tune: Clementine)
Found some popcorn, found some popcorn,
Found some popcorn right now.
Right now I found some popcorn,
Found some popcorn right now.
It was rotten...
Ate it anyway...
Got a stomach ache...
Poppin' Popcorn (tune: Muffin Man)
Do you know how to pop popcorn,
Pop popcorn, pop popcorn,
Do you know how to pop popcorn,
Pop-pop-pop.
Make it hot and watch it pop
Watch it pop, watch it pop
Make it hot and watch it pop
Pop-pop-pop.
Pour it in a bowl and share with a friend
Share with a friend, share with a friend
Pour it in a bowl and share with a friend,
Yum, yum, yum.
How Corn Grows (flannel)
The farmer plants the seed and waters it (seed)
The seed begins to grow - first down (roots)
Then up (stem and leaf)
It grows and grows and grows (add one leaf at a time)
Until a tassel grows on top (tassel)
Ears grow between leaves and stem (ears)
And when they're big and fat,
The farmer harvests them (pick ears)
We peel the husk (fold down husks)
And find the corn on the cob.
Let the kernels dry (small kernel)
Put them in a popper
Heat them up and ...POP! Popcorn!
Poems
Why Does Popcorn Pop? by Amy Goldman Koss
Popcorn does the strangest thing
Of all the foods we eat.
Why does it pop and get so big
When it's put over heat?
Popcorn kernels have a shell
That keeps the moisture in
The kernel's shell is fairly tough
But also very thin.
When you heat the kernels up,
The moisture turns to steam
If you make them hotter still,
The pressure gets extreme.
The steam inside the shell expands,
The kernel overloads,
Till it's as full as it can be
And POP, the corn explodes!
Popcorn by James Stevenson
When Walker and I bought our movie tickets,
And went into the lobby,
There were brown boxes stacked seven feet high,
And ten feet wide and twenty feet deep.
You could hardly get by.
What was this cardboard castle?
We took a closer look.
On every box was printed one word.
In small letters: POPCORN
"Could you eat that much popcorn?" said Walker.
"I already have," I said.
Popcorn by Cathy Drinkwater Better
Popcorn kernels
In the pot
Jump and dance
When they get hot.
And when they've
carried on enough,
They do a flip
And turn to fluff.
The Popcorn Kernel by Dick Wilmes
I am a popcorn kernel,
On the electric range,
With oil to my ankles,
Waiting for the change.
Pop, pop, it's started happening,
The noise has just begun.
Pop, pop, there it goes again,
It sounds like a lot of fun.
Explosions to the left of me,
Explosions to the right.
I'm just about to blow my top,
I think I really might.
Bang!!!
Other Ideas:
There is a program "Popcorn Day" in This Way to Books, by Carolyn
Bauer,
p.
95. I did the Popcorn Collages described there as our craft.
One of my co-workers had the children paint with popcorn, using washable
tempera paint. She used the styrofoam meat/veggie trays used in grocery
store delis to put the paint on for each child. She also had a large tarp
she spread on the floor to protect the carpet. For real little ones, I've
drawn a movie type popcorn container, made paper popcorn, and let thechildren
color and paste as desired.
Once when I was doing an Indiana theme, Orville Redenbacker's a Hoosier, I
played the instrumental oldie "Hot Buttered Popcorn" and I had a white
sheet
with yellow ping pong balls that we used like a parachute game. Starting out
slowly and making the "popcorn" pop faster and faster. I have also
used the
same music and we jump on bubble wrap while it plays. Great Fun! Good Luck.
We did a program about popcorn that included playing the popcorn song
(instrumental, came out in the 80's, was played on top 40 constantly, called
"hot Buttered Popcorn") while the kids gathered around a big sheet and
bounced white and yellow crumpled up paper up and down while jumping up and
down on bubble wrap. They became a huge popcorn popper. This was tremendous
fun. Newschannel covered us on the 6 o'clock news!
Get a copy of Mudluscious by Irving (Jan, I think), I just know it has LOTs
of popcorn stuff in it.
Try contacting http://www.popcorn.org/mpindex.htm
<http://www.popcorn.org/mpindex.htm>
for ideas. They used to send out
brochures with recipes and stuff too. Have fun!
Popcorn tasting table: there are lots of popcorn recipes on
the internet (some pretty imaginative and uhh, GROSS!)...make up several
bowls and have people vote on their favorite OR have easy recipes and
ingredients handy for people to make their own plastic cup-sized batch
Popcorn relay: pick up popcorn with pieces of tape on fingers, tweezers,
etc., race across room and place in bowl, then back to the next person and
repeat There's a popcorn chant/song by Raffi, too.
Last year for my "MummY' program at Halloween time, I made "Monster
hands",
which are clear plastic gloves with Candy corn for the fingernails and then
stuffed with popcorn. I bought cheap plastic rings at the craft store also.
I made them all myself, but they might be fun for the kids to make
themselves. Make sure you get the clear plastic, not the opaque.
How about stringing popped corn (and maybe cranberries) for putting on the
bushes for the birds? Especially if it is a family program, the parents
could help with the needles needed for stringing.
I just used popcorn to make flower pictures. I think it was in one of the
Mailbox Book of Patterns, but you wouldn't have to use that. I gave the
kids a blue paper with grass, stems and leaves already drawn. They colored
the grass leaves and stems and glued popcorn on to make the flowers. The
whole library liked it because I made the popcorn at the kids desk. The
library smelled good and several came over to sample.
How about Asch's "Popcorn", alternating popcorn and dried cranberries
on
wire and making a wreath to hang on trees for birds and squirrels to nibble,
(stale popcorn minimizes crumbling kernels, or carmel popcorn balls if you are
really brave!)
I've always like the story "The Story of Jason Squiff and Why He Had a
Popcorn Hat, Popcorn mittens and popcorn Shoes" by Carl Sandburg from
Rootabaga Stories Part One (There's an edition illustrated by Michael
Hague.) You could even try to make popcorn mittens! Like popcorn balls only
shaped like mittens. Or just do a picture gluing on popcorn to make the hat,
mittens and shoes.
What about The Huckabuck Family by Carl Sandburg? I've had great success
with using a hot air popper with this book. The kids have never seen
anything like it, it was a true hit! I did two programs at the library and
took one to our local daycare. We also made paperbags dragons to take hope,
along with baggies of special popped corn.
I've done some fun ones. Caroline F. Bauer has some great ideas in her
books (Read for the Fun of It) - a popcorn trick, a Paul Bunyan story.
There's a fairly new version (picture book) of Sandburg's Huckabuck Family.
I did some riddles from Science Fun With Peanuts and Popcorn. There's an
old book called A World of Nonsense that has a story called "Popcorn
Frost."
Stretched it a bit to include corn with Rodanas' Dragonfly's Tale.
I do popcorn almost every fall as one of our preschool story hours. Ihave
an old air popper that I inherited here and the kids are fascinated with
it...I put the popcorn in and we talk about how you use the five sense with
popcorn, before and after. There is much excitement when it starts to pop
and spill out of the popper!
There is a great website: www.popcorn.org
<http://www.popcorn.org>
Stories: The Huckabuck Family and how they raised popcorn in Nebraska,
by
Carl Sandburg (illustrated by David Small)
The Popcorn Tree by Carolyn Mamchur (Xmas story)
What Makes Popcorn Pop? First questions and answers about food
poem: Betty Bopper in "Never Take a Pig to Lunch" by Nadine Westcott
There is a fun trick to do in Read for the Fun of It by Caroline FellerBauer (p.
309)
craft we made popcorn pictures - we put bowls of plain popped popcorn on the
tables and the children glued it onto pictures they had drawn, such as
sheep, flowers, trees, etc. They ate lots too and had lots of fun! Hopethis
helps!
We do a popcorn program here periodically and use bubble wrap sheets to
lay
on the floor, and play Gary Rosen's "The Popcorn Pop" (Gary Rosen,
Tot
Rock)
song. As the children sing along with the song, they jump on the bubble
wrap to make it "pop". They absolutely love it. Picking up the plastic
immediately when you're done with it will ensure the child safety issues
will be addressed.
We do a popcorn program every other year or so and some of the kids'favorites
things are:
1. Pop some corn without putting a lid on the popper and let the kids
try and catch the corn or predict how high it will pop. Warning: if you use
a Stir Crazy, only put a teensy bit of oil in because the oil can spatter
out and get on the kids.
2. We buy different flavors of popcorn and have the kids taste and
guess what the flavor is.
3. Make cloud pictures by glueing popcorn to blue paper.
4. Make popcorn necklaces by stringing popcorn. (We do this before the
program and give them away as the kids leave.)
Hope this helps!
Elizabeth Murphy
Youth Librarian
Austin Public Library
elizabeth.murphy@ci.austin.tx.us
Perhaps you could buy some clear plastic gloves, (not the kind the medical
establishment uses but the kind the school lunch servers might use.) Put a
piece of candy corn in the bottom of each finger to represent the
fingernail and fill the rest with popcorn. use a twistie to seal it tight.
It is really cute and the popcorn could be eaten somewhere other than the
library!
Laura Matheny
Durham Public Library
POPCORN PROGRAM IDEAS
Website: www.popcorn.org
PUPPET PLAY: Thayer's "The Popcorn Dragon"
"I am a popcorn in a pan (kneel down)
Don't forget the top (put hand on head)
Soon I'll be sizzling (make sizzle noise)
And after that, I'll POP! (jump up)
STORIES:
"The Story of Jason Squiff and Why He Had a Popcorn Hat, Popcorn
Mittens
and Popcorn Shoes" by Carl Sandburg from Rootabaga Stories Part One
"Popcorn Frost," a story in "A World of Nonsense"
Paul Bunyan story in "Read for the Fun of It" by Caroline F. Bauer
Popcorn by Frank Asch
The Huckabuck Family and How They Raised Popcorn in Nebraska, by Carl
Sandburg
The Popcorn Dragon by Jane Thayer
Popcorn at the Palace by Emily McCully
Heatwave by Helen Ketteman
The Popcorn Tree by Carolyn Mamchur (Xmas story)
DePaola's Popcorn Book
What Makes Popcorn Pop? First questions and answers about food
OTHER BOOKS:
"Science Fun With Peanuts and Popcorn" by Rose Wyler, 1986, Messner.
Riddles, trivia, tongue twisters, games and recipes
"Mudluscious" by Irving (has LOTs of popcorn stuff in it)
POEMS:
Betty Bopper in "Never Take a Pig to Lunch" by Nadine Westcott
WHY DOES POPCORN POP? by Amy Goldman Koss
Popcorn does the strangest thing
Of all the foods we eat.
Why does it pop and get so big
When it's put over heat?
Popcorn kernels have a shell
That keeps the moisture in
The kernel's shell is fairly tough
But also very thin.
When you heat the kernels up,
The moisture turns to steam
If you make them hotter still,
The pressure gets extreme.
The steam inside the shell expands,
The kernel overloads,
Till it's as full as it can be
And POP, the corn explodes!
TRICK
In "Read for the Fun of It" by Caroline Feller Bauer (p. 309)
CRAFTS
Make popcorn pictures - put bowls of plain popped popcorn on the tables
and the children glue it onto pictures they have drawn, such as sheep,
flowers, trees, etc. (or hat, mittens and shoes from "The Story of
Jason
Squiff@"
String popped corn alternating with dried cranberries for putting on the
bushes for the birds, or put on wire to make a wreath to hang on trees for
birds and squirrels to nibble. Parents could help with the needles needed
for stringing.
Use popcorn to make flower pictures. Give the kids a blue paper with
grass, stems and leaves already drawn. They color the grass, leaves, and
stems, and glue popcorn on to make the flowers.
Popcorn Collages (see p. 95 in "This Way to Books" by Carolyn Bauer,
Paper bag dragons
ACTIVITIES
Human Popcorn Popper:
Let the kids bounce white and yellow crumpled up paper up and down while
jumping on bubble wrap while listening to the instrumental "Hot
Buttered
Popcorn" or Gary Rosen's "The Popcorn Pop" (Gary Rosen, Tot Rock)
song.
Pick up the plastic immediately when you're done with it.
Play popcorn with a parachute: keep tossing balls on, waving the parachute
to keep them all "popping"
Popcorn tasting table: there are lots of popcorn recipes on the internet...
make up several bowls and have people vote on their favorite OR have easy
recipes and ingredients handy for people to make their own plastic
cup-sized batch
Popcorn relay: pick up popcorn with pieces of tape on fingers, tweezers,
etc., race across room and place in bowl, then back to the next person and
repeat
Experiment with microwave popcorn in "Science Experiments You Can
Eat," by
Vicki Cobb
SONGS:
(to the tune Row, Row, Row Your Boat)
Pop, pop, pop the corn.
Pop it big and white.
Popping, popping, popping, popping,
Popping "til it's right.
There's a popcorn chant/song by Raffi, too.
SNACKS:
Make popcorn mittens (like popcorn balls only shaped like mittens) [see
"The Story of Jason Squiff@"]
Some of the kids' favorites things are:
1. Pop some corn without putting a lid on the popper and let the kids try
and catch the corn or predict how high it will pop. Warning: if you use a
Stir Crazy, only put a teensy bit of oil in because the oil can spatter
out and get on the kids.
2. We buy different flavors of popcorn and have the kids taste and guess
what the flavor is.
3. Make cloud pictures by gluing popcorn to blue paper.
4. Make popcorn necklaces by stringing popcorn. (We do this before the
program and give them away as the kids leave.)
Of course, this goes back to the days when people popped corn on the
stove, but the kids still loved it.
I recently had a popcorn program for school-age kids that was lots of
fun. My program was called A Pocket Full of Popcorn, so I made a pocket
from construction paper and filled it with popcorn facts written on
popcorn shapes I had cut out. Each child had a chance to pull out a
fact
and read it aloud. Then we read some popcorn poems and stories,
including Popcorn by Frank Asch (have them chew popcorn loudly when the
word "popcorn" is mentioned, as it is frequently in this story), The
Huckabuck Family and How They Raised Popcorn in Nebraska and Quit and
Came Back by Carl Sandburg (the version illustrated by David Small is
good, or you could read it aloud from Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories),
and
the end of McBroom's Ear by Sid Fleischman, in which a gigantic corn
cob
gets so hot that it starts popping. Poems I read included "Popcorn in
the Pot" (Popcorn, popcorn in the pot/Shake it, shake it, serve it
hot/Salt and butter, add the right touch/Eat it, eat it, but not too
much!) and Nancy Byrd Turner's "Sing a Song of Popcorn," in the
anthology of the same name edited by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers. We
also talked about the Native Americans' explanation for why popcorn
pops
as well as the scientific explanation (available on the Jollytime
Popcorn website, www.jollytime.com).
Finally, we strung popcorn into
necklaces (the older kids especially loved this and created some
intricate and beautiful garlands by interspersing gummy candy between
the pieces of popcorn). Some other suggestions I came across for
activities but didn't have time to implement were popcorn relay races
(balance popcorn on a plastic knife and walk across the room without
dropping it) and tossing popcorn at a mask with an open mouth to
"feed"
it.
The best popcorn recipe book I came across was Popcorn! by Frances
Towner Geidt; it includes many different kinds of salty and sweet
dressings that you can pour on popcorn, plus recipes for popcorn candies
and popcorn cake. Popped Culture: A Social History by Andrew Smith also
has some good ideas, plus a bibliography of popcorn-related children's
books.
The kids seemed to really enjoy this program, and I loved coming up
with
the activities, too. The only downside is the clean-up involved, but
older kids are often willing to help with that part of it.
Happy Popping!
--
Marnie Colton, Children's Librarian
Enoch Pratt Free Library, Hampden Branch
3641 Falls Road
Baltimore, MD 21211
Phone: 410-396-6043 or 410-396-6058
E-Mail: mcolton@epfl.net
http://www.geocities.com/mystorytime/popcorn.htm
I posted a storytime theme about popcorn on a personal website. Maybe it
will have some good ideas for you!
--Wilma Flanagan
Youth Services Librarian
Spokane County Library District
Spokane, Washington
don't know if you have this fingerplay or not but my preschoolers loved
the actions.
Pop, pop, pop (clap hands with each "pop")
Pour the corn into the pot (motion of pouring from one hand into a pot
(other hand))
Pop, pop, pop (clap)
Take it, shake it, 'til it's hot (shaking motion back and forth with
hand)
Pop, pop, pop (clap)
Lift up the lid, what have you got? (motion of lifting lid from a pot)
Pop, pop, Popcorn! (clap)
am popcorn in a pan (kneel down)
Don't forget the top (put hand on head)
Soon I'll be sizzling (make sizzle noise)
And after that I'll POP! (jump up)
Have fun. Connie Sargent
Constance Sargent
Library Assistant
Loudoun County Public Library
Rust Library
380 Old Waterford Road
Leesburg, VA 20176.
(703)771-5624
csargent@loudoun.gov
Play the instrumental recording, Hot Butter Popcorn and have the kids
jump
on bubblewrap
Linda Peterson
Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library
125 South Franklin
Bloomfield, Indiana 47424
Phone: (812)384-4125
Fax: (812)384-0820
email: lpeterson@bloomfield.lib.in.us
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