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From: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults and Children"
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To: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults and Children" <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 11:01 PM
Subject: PUBYAC digest 916
PUBYAC Digest 916
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) Lemony Snicket ideas
by "Amy Johnson" <aljohnson@hdpl.org>
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From: "Amy Johnson" <aljohnson@hdpl.org>
To: <PUBYAC@prairienet.org>
Subject: Lemony Snicket ideas
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 11:08:28 CST
Thanks so much to everyone who responded to my plea for help! Here is a
compilation of all the responses I received. Sorry if some of it is
repeated...I don't have time to go through and eliminate duplicates.
Enjoy...and best of luck to anyone who has a Snicket party...please, keep
sending your ideas to PUBYAC!!
Amy Johnson
Children's Services Assistant
Henderson District Public Libraries
Paseo Verde Library
(702)492-6581
aljohnson@hdpl.org
We did a Lemony Snicket "Series of Unfortunate Events" program. I got
a
local company to make us an "eye" stamp, and we stamped the children's
left
ankle if they wanted to (with washable ink). I guess you could also use the
stamp on papers as well.
Have you been to the official Lemony Snicket web site? It has several games
to play- http://www.lemonysnicket.com.
There's a fan site at
www.unfortunateevents.net. You
might also contact the publisher, Harper
Collins. They did offer a classroom activity kit.
At our program we did a word find, secret in a message, maps, a
"hacking"
(coughing) contest, "guess how many lemon drops are in the jar," a
scavenger
hunt using reference books, play dough "creatures (leeches, snakes, etc.).
Refreshments included frobscottle (drink in Roald Dahl's The BFG- recipe in
one of his cookbooks), lemonade, lemon bars, gummy worms, "eye"
crackers
(Ritz crackers with cheese and an olive slice).
>From Michelle Benitez at Los Altos Library -
We set the stage with creepy, miserable sounding music. Then we had 2
crafts, macaroni skeletons and fuzzy spiders. There was another table where
we made slime and the kids got to take some home. For snacks we had gummy
worms and bug juice which was punch with raisins and gummy worms in it. The
kids also got to take home goodie bags with slimy eyeballs and reptiles in
them.
>From Martha Lund -
We had several different stations: a coughing contest (Mr. Poe), biting
contest (Sunny--chew eyeball gum--who can blow bubble fastest), make
disguises (Count Olaf), and someone sitting behind a screen pretending to be
the author who would vaguely answer questions and cry piteously whenever
Beatrice's name was brought up. We began the program with trivia and ended
the program with inventions (weird inventions and examples from the book
Mistakes that Worked). We stamped everyone's ankle with an eyeball. It was
a miserable time.
>From Fayth Chamberland at Concord Library -
we just did a snicket party in concord. i created an activity booklet and a
eye tattoo- i can send copy if you email mailing address.
we will be posting photos soon on our library website- can get ideas from
the party photos. when photos are ready-i'll send message
on pubyac.
We (the children's department) joined the young adult libarian in planning
and presenting the program, feeling that a wide variety of ages might come.
We also wanted to use the meeting room rather than the story room, so older
children wouldn't hesitate to come.
We first met in the story room, to "sort" the children into groups-
Violet,
Klaus, Sunny, or Count Olaf, using colored star stickers. We also offered
"eye" stamps (rubber stamp made by local company, washable ink)- for
the
left ankle, of course.
We then moved to the meeting room, where several stations (tables) were set
up.
There were word find sheets, "secret in a message" sheets, sites from
the
different books to draw maps of, a "hacking" (coughing) contest,
"guess how
many lemon drops in the jar," a scavenger hunt using reference books, and
play dough for making creatures- snakes, leeches, etc. As each team
completed a station, they came to me to have an eye stamp put on their
paper. There was also a table with the Series of Unfortunate Events books,
and other books in the "if you liked this, try this" category.
We then went back to the story room for a trivia contest and refreshments
(frobscottle- remember The BFG by Dahl?, lemonade for the less adventurous,
foot cookies, lemon bars, gummy worms, "eye" crackers made with
olives,
etc.)
They got points for everything, and there were prizes for everyone.
Scholastic's Classroom Activity Kit (a pamphlet)and the official (and
unofficial) Lemony Snicket web sites were a great help, as well as all of
your suggestions.
We had 27 attend, and everyone seemed to have a great time.
Linda Anderson, Nashville
please send me your miling address and i'll mail the Lemony Snicket Activity
Book I created this summer for out snicket party.
fayth chamberland
concord free public library
129 main street
concord,ma 01742
fchamberland@mln.lib.ma.us
In anticipation of Lemony Snicket programs in the Spring, I have been
compiling anything and everything, much of it from Pubyac. Hope there is
something you can use.
Maybe the middle schoolers would enjoy the In / Out list (from Ersatz
Elevator) especially if they can write it on a white board or large chart
pad.
Elizabeth Murphy
Austin Public Library
Here goes (it is long):
Series of Unfortunate Events Program Ideas
Possible titles: Laudable Library:
You are invited to a Series of Fortunate Events at the Library. Klaus will
be there, because of course he knows that "Laudable" means
"worthy of
praise".
(fliers on parchment-looking paper with outline to resemble book covers.)
(Read: Selections from Monster Goose by Judy Sierra)
Brief visit from a mystery person (in disguise, of course) and kids have to
answer questions about him/her: male or female, what color were his shoes,
was he wearing glasses, what did she say? Most correct answers wins a
goodie.
Ellison dies have a pair of glasses and a moustache, that along with a
cardstock nose ( a triangle shape) taped between them, makes a goofy
disguise for the kids to make and wear.
An eye "tattoo" from foamie: cut out the eye sign from foamie and glue
it
to a wood black or thick cardboard and the kids can use a stamp pad to give
themselves an eye "tattoo"
Wanted posters for the kids to draw the various disguises of the Count
Olaf (Idea from the "Wanted" poster I picked up at Barnes and Noble
about a
year ago.)
The book titles would make great word search
Mad Libs based on characters from favorite books. The easiest way is to
take an excerpt from one of the books, and replace all the nouns, verbs and
adjectives with blanks. Or make up a very short, goofy story using the
Baudelaire children, but leave blanks for the nouns, verbs and adjectives.
Hair Ribbons to keep your hair out of your face while you think.
Make up a Pseudonym (fake name) for yourself.
a.k.a. = also known as
Lemony Snicket is the "pen name" of Daniel Handler. Other famous
pseudonyms:
Mark Twain (Samuel Clements)
Carolyn Keene
Frank Dixon
In / Out List (from Ersatz Elevator)
In Auction: give out fake money and kids bid on silly "in" things:
Add to In / Out list:
In Out
The Baudelaires Captain Underpants
Fitness Couch Potato
Superheroes Pokemon
SpongeBob Rug Rats
...
Try on a disguise: Bald wig, one long eyebrow to tape on.
Inventions: Draw or build a great invention
ehm 6/02
More ideas from Pubyac:
If you want to take a look at some of the crafts and activities at our
recent Lemony Snicket party log onto
http://www.concordnet.org/library/Children/childrens.html
<http://www.concordnet.org/library/Children/childrens.html>
. Click onto
Events, then click onto Lemony Snicket.
The kids had a bubblegum blowing contest, an
online trivia contest, a spelling bee, and made disguises out of felt and
chenile stems! We had "dirt" and gummy worms for desert, lemon drops
and
lemonade and candy eyeballs (filled with chocolate, peanut butter or carmel)
which were easily found thanks to being so close to Halloween. Great trivia
can be found on the internet for contests. I even learned alot of the
anagrams
and literary allusions that I didn't catch, which I'm usually great at
catching.
we are planning a snicket party for july. we are having a youth acting group
put on a little play of the wedding scene play in book one.
we will also have clay available for kids to make some of the creatures
featured in the books- snakes, leeches, etc. also will make eye tattoos.
we will serve lemon cupcakes, lemon drops, and
lemonade. i created a
booklet
for the event. i'll send along a copy. you can
photocopy what you like.
we think it should be a really fun night.
fayth chamberland
concord free public library
129 main street
concord, ma 01742
they did a Snicket party here before I started
last July. One of
the
activities they did was to play the game "murder" or
"killer" as it is
sometimes called, though for the party they called it
Count Olaf. All
the
children close their eyes, one is tapped on the
shoulder and becomes
"it"
or in this case, Count Olaf. All the children then
open their eyes and
start walking around shaking hands. Count Olaf
scratches the wrist of
someone while shaking their hand, that person shakes
hands with one or
two
more people then dies dramatically. Count Olaf
doesn't "kill" every
single
person s/he shakes hands with, to allow victims their
time in the
spotlight
and to avoid detection. As the victims die off, the
remaining players
try
to guess who is playing the Count. Of course, the
victims can't
tell. :-) Once the person playing Count Olaf is
guessed, you start
the
process all over with a new Count Olaf.
There weren't very complete notes for this party, so
afraid that's all
I
have for you!
Judy
Judy Czarnecki
Youth Services Associate
Veterans Memorial Library
Mt. Pleasant, MI
I tried to have a program based on the Lemony Snicket
books. They have
been very popular at our library. I called it the
Sorry Soiree. I was
planning to play a trivia game/scavenger hunt which would be something Klaus
would like to do, have them make an invention with craft supplies I had
available, which Violet would like to do, and have crunchy snacks for the
Sunny fans.
>From Michelle Benitez at Los Altos Library -
We set the stage with creepy, miserable sounding music. Then we had 2
crafts, macaroni skeletons and fuzzy spiders. There was another table where
we made slime and the kids got to take some home. For snacks we had gummy
worms and bug juice which was punch with raisins and gummy worms in it. The
kids also got to take home goodie bags with slimy eyeballs and reptiles in
them.
>From Martha Lund -
We had several different stations: a coughing contest (Mr. Poe), biting
contest (Sunny-chew eyeball gum-who can blow bubble fastest), make disguises
(Count Olaf), and someone sitting behind a screen pretending to be the
author who would vaguely answer questions and cry piteously whenever
Beatrice's name was brought up. We began the program with trivia and ended
the program with inventions (weird inventions and examples from the book
Mistakes that Worked). We stamped everyone's ankle with an eyeball. It was
a miserable time.
>From Fayth Chamberland at Concord Library -
we just did a snicket party in concord. i created an activity booklet and a
eye tattoo- i can send copy if you email mailing address. we will be
posting photos soon on our library website- can get ideas from the party
photos. when photos are ready-i'll send message on pubyac.
You all have been so helpful to me, I just wanted to share what we did for
our Lemony Snicket program.
We (the children's department) joined the young adult libarian in planning
and presenting the program, feeling that a wide variety of ages might come.
We also wanted to use the meeting room rather than the story room, so older
children wouldn't hesitate to come.
We first met in the story room, to "sort" the children into groups-
Violet,
Klaus, Sunny, or Count Olaf, using colored star stickers. We also offered
"eye" stamps (rubber stamp made by local company, washable ink)- for
the
left ankle, of course.
We then moved to the meeting room, where several stations (tables) were set
up.
There were word find sheets, "secret in a message" sheets, sites from
the
different books to draw maps of, a "hacking" (coughing) contest,
"guess how
many lemon drops in the jar," a scavenger hunt using reference books, and
play dough for making creatures- snakes, leeches, etc. As each team
completed a station, they came to me to have an eye stamp put on their
paper. There was also a table with the Series of Unfortunate Events books,
and other books in the "if you liked this, try this" category.
We then went back to the story room for a trivia contest and refreshments
(frobscottle- remember The BFG by Dahl?, lemonade for the less adventurous,
foot cookies, lemon bars, gummy worms, "eye" crackers made with
olives,
etc.)
They got points for everything, and there were prizes for everyone.
Scholastic's Classroom Activity Kit (a pamphlet)and the official (and
unofficial) Lemony Snicket web sites were a great help, as well as all of
your suggestions.
We had 27 attend, and everyone seemed to have a great time.
It was SO MUCH FUN but only 13 turned out!!
Opened playing Snicket tape from kit...Thanks CL for sharing! Short intro
about series. Who are favorite characters? Why? "Likes" of series? Why
can't you wait for another one?
Sorted children int Violet, KIaus & Sunny teams using stickers
(Invention/read/cookies)
I was Count Olaf
Explained that everyone that participated in EVERYTHING
(tasting/playing/creating etc. activities) would earn an EYE TATTOO
at the end!
Guess how many "bug & slugs" in my container? (opaque
container/couldn't
be touched/Sunbelt fruit jammers: "lead in" was "I brought some
of my
slipperiest,slimiest bugs & slugs & one of you will be lucky to take
them
home w/ you....IF, YOU CAN PROMISE THAT IF YOU WIN, YOU WILL TAKE EXTRA
SPECIAL CARE OF MY FRIENDS....)
TEAM COMPETITIONS:
Lemon-y roll/push relay --- crawl pushing lemon w/ nose
OR
dowel pushing lemon
Violet's-"ventions" Each team's given 10 straws, 5 paper clips & a
3
ft. piece of masking tape.
Give them 10 minutes to come up w/ an invention. Teams vote on winner!
Eyeball relay styrofoam "eyeballs" on spoons
Mrs. Poe "hacking" contest Teams judge winner!
* I gave winners armbands-only could win once then went to runnerups.
Everybody WON!!!
CRAFT: Snicket Snakes--- coiled "snakes" on fluorescent cardstock.
Markers
for details.
Played COUNT OLAF GAME!!! What fun!!!! Kids were really good at
"hiding"
Olaf character & "dying"
Bought Hawaiaan Punch Green Berry Rush (Kiwi Strawberry) tore label off,
floated gummy worms inside & put in 3 oz. cups
told them I had just cleaned the "frog tank" this morning & it was
my scummy
frog tank water...
Crunchy Lemony cookies snack
EYE TATTOOS TO ALL WHO DID IT ALL!
Yesterday, on the CBC's children's book week site
(http://www.cbcbooks.org/html/book_week_activities.html,
I came across a
story starter written by Lemony Snicket for your kids to finish! It is in
.pdf format, so you can print it right off and reproduce it. Let me know how
your program goes!
Robyn E. Windon
Intermediate/Teen Librarian
Mogadore Branch
Akron Summit-County Public Library
144 S. Cleveland Ave
Mogadore OH 44260
330-628-9228
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