I am not quite sure why I got asked, maybe because she knew I would say yes? I agreed to read a book and come up with a craft for an event sponsored by the school's PTA-like group.
The first job was to find a book in English that I thought would lend itself to a craft. I narrowed it down to Eric Carle's book honoring the Franz Marc, a controversial German expressionist.
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I was excited to find this video of Eric Carle discussing the book.
Shel Silverstein's Who Wants A Cheap Rhinoceros? was the other book. In the end I read both.
I thought the kids could make paper lunch bag puppets, which would allow them to do something easy (just color) or something more complex (cut, glue, create). I forgot that everyone here eats a hot lunch and have no concept of a lunch bag! Lucky for me the coordinator has been saving toilet paper tubes for two years.
I have no idea how much English the children (ages 3-7?) understood, but they seemed to enjoy the books and loved having stickers, pipe cleaners, yarn, and googly eyes to create whatever they wanted.
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| One thirteen-year-old came to help and also had fun being creative! |
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